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Archive for July, 2009
July 18, 2009 at 8:45 am · Filed under Uncategorized
I went to one of the branches of Danube, a chain of supermarkets and hypermarkets in Jeddah. As I went around, I saw this Baglawa, a platter of various bread and pastry cut into small bite size and arranged in a platter. I initially thought it was an exotic dish of sorts but eventually learned it was bread. Each Baglawa platter was sold at 15% discount, but there were not many people taking it. It looked delicious but was surely expensive.
The freshly baked bread by the oven was a blockbuster though. It was cheap but equally delicious. The bread was baked in the red-bricked oven-furnace at the back wall of the cashier. Here customers have a view of how their orders get baked.
I chose one if its best-sellers, a thin pizza dough sploshed with white cream cheese and thyme paste, pattered with grated cheese. It was placed at the oven using a long wooden food turner. In a few minutes, the pizza-like bread was handed over–hot and delicious.
I gobbled the hot bread in a few minutes and enjoyed the soft goodness of it. As for the Baglawa, I will just buy it next time it slashes 50% off its price.
July 16, 2009 at 2:50 am · Filed under Uncategorized
I went to Serafi Mega Mall, one of the malls here in Jeddah. It was not as big as Metro Manila’s SM Megamall but it definitely had an upscale interior. I went to its supermarket with my colleague and did some business there.
Before we left, I smelt the sweet goodness in the air and saw this very familiar logo written in Arabic: It was Krispy Kreme!
July 10, 2009 at 8:31 am · Filed under Uncategorized
The past days have been a series of exciting discoveries in this city of hot sands by the sea, Jeddah. I have been here for less than a week and will be staying here for a couple of years more.
This morning my Filipino roommate at the hotel and I washed our clothes. My roommate bought his Tide at 1SAR [1SAR is equal to PHP13 more or less] at a supermarket while I bought my Bonux at SAR1.5 at the Bakala, a small air-conditioned store similar to variety stores in the Philippines.
However, there was neither a washing machine nor a wash basin at the hotel we were staying. Thus, we improvised our laundry implements. He washed on the sink at the bathroom while I washed on the kitchen sink. We got big plastic plates from the cupboard and put washed laundry on there.
We improvised our clothes dryer too. We have gotten a metal rod and placed it perfectly against the aircon braces as a clothesline by the veranda that faced the wide city street and hoarded clothe hangers from the room attendant. We got our clothes hanger.
It was a perfect timing too. A couple of hours after we finished washing our clothes, the water stop pouring from the faucet. It was a good day for soap and suds.
