The team at the office are very friendly and eager to help. There are however cultural differences I am still getting used to. They are very keen to please and will say yes, even though they may not understand, they are also reserved in their comments when a boss (like me) is around. That makes it a lot different to normal where everyone is more than happy to tell me when I am being stupid.
I am getting used to the challenges more now, but it will take a while to getting used to seeing my work look like this. (see pic)
The big insight for the day was that:- there can't be too many beef cows in china.
Having found the local (and a great one) super market I was checking out the produce. Very interesting.
Indulge me in a digression for a moment please. The night before I left Brisbane, Amanda and I had a lovely dinner at a restaurant in South Bank. I thought it might be while before I have a steak, so I ordered the special for the night (special by nature, not price). It was a 1kg T-Bone steak. It was yum, but it beat me and I couldn’t eat it all. I was however satisfied I had a good fill of prime beef before I left Aust.
Back to the supermarket.
The butcher section proudly displayed half a dozen different steaks. They sell it by the 100gm. Australian beef retails at the basic price of around 49RMB per 100gm. That is $125/kg. How does that compare to what you pay each week?
So even though ‘vegetables are what food eats’ I wont be eating any Australian prime rib for a while.
The beef cattle on the farm in Tassy had better watch out, I will be there for Christmas and will be in much need of a heart steak again.
And don't get me started on the cost of butter. The price here means that you could cut it into ingots and sell it at the markets around the same price of gold.
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