{"id":346,"date":"2009-12-08T13:19:23","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T20:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattfife.net\/wordpress\/?p=346"},"modified":"2012-08-13T11:41:14","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T18:41:14","slug":"russia-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=346","title":{"rendered":"Russia – Day 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

Normal day of work – but no meetings till 1pm, so my morning is finally a little relaxing.\u00a0 My manager is desperate for some pizza\/burgers – so we actually get dragged over to the local mall.\u00a0 Talk about exactly like American malls.\u00a0 This place is exactly like any mall you’d see in the states sans the Cyrillic lettering.\u00a0 They have a Sborro, Subway, Baskin-Robbins and a McDonalds knockoff that has the exact same menu.\u00a0 I reluctantly get a burger – but would have rather had a good Russian dish.<\/p>\n

Overall, Russian food is very easy for the American palette to adjust to.\u00a0 Lots of chicken\/rice and potatoes – with Nizhny having lots of lake and river fish from the Vulga. \u00a0 The food is usually less spicy in general – but still very tasty.\u00a0 The beer is good but nothing beyond the standard, normal tasting beer.\u00a0 The Vodka is very, very smooth.\u00a0 They aren’t big on cold drinks or ice in your drinks.\u00a0 Pop and other beverages are stored in fridges – but I’ve never seen refrigerators that cool so poorly.\u00a0 Most of them seem to be no more than just fans blowing air. My guess is their cooling elements aren’t even plugged in.\u00a0 Still – no big deal – just a difference.\u00a0 The food is good and I haven’t had a single issue yet.\u00a0 Finger’s crossed for a safe rest of the trip.<\/p>\n

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At night we head out to a really nice restaurant with the Russian manager.\u00a0 The place was very nice, and the food even better.\u00a0 We had caviar and beef roll appetizers with vodka; then I had a roasted chicken\/pheasant on a bed of potatoes and some sort of spicy shoots.\u00a0 Fantastic.<\/p>\n

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After that, we headed just down the block to the Rock Bar.\u00a0 It’s filled with younger folks and tons of western ‘rock memorabilia’ such as 80’s posters\/concert bandannas from Van Halen and other such aged giants.\u00a0 The stools have jeans stapled to them with dark black boots for the ‘feet’.\u00a0 When we get there, the live band had finished, but they put up a projector on the stage with lots of German dark metal like Ramstein playing.\u00a0 We enjoy some drinks then head home.\u00a0 Another successful day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Normal day of work – but no meetings till 1pm, so my morning is finally a little relaxing.\u00a0 My manager is desperate for some pizza\/burgers – so we actually get dragged over to the local mall.\u00a0 Talk about exactly like American malls.\u00a0 This place is exactly like any mall you’d see in the states sans the Cyrillic lettering.\u00a0 They have a Sborro, Subway, Baskin-Robbins and a McDonalds knockoff that has the exact same menu.\u00a0 I reluctantly get a burger –…<\/p>\n

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