* This list is in no particular order. 11 things came to my head, right off the bat.
1. Chai Halib -(Yellow label lipton tea made with RAINBOW milk - there's no Rainbow, or even any adequate substitute, in America!) WAAAAAH. How do immigrant Indians survive here without any Rainbow for their chai?
2. Eating at Bukhari in al Gharrafa. Man I could really use some "hummous with meat" right now!
3. Shopping in Souk Wakif.
4. Qatari Hospitality/ the whole visiting each other ritual.
5. Our Qatari and Qatari-American friends.
6. Having a maid, in particular, the actual maid we had to leave in Qatar. It was such a help even when we had a bad maid - just that extra pair of hands around the house makes things so much easier in a house where there are three kids under the age of 7; but Mariam was amazing!
7. People watching; the bizarre things we saw about people, in City Center, on the Corniche, and in other random places are unparalelled by the United States.
8. Being able to drive out into the Qatari outback. We loved to take little excursions and sight - see in the desert. It was great fun, but we especially miss finding and feeding carrots to camels!
9. Beep-beep chicken (we called it "crack chicken", because those guys reminded us of the drug dealers standing out on the street trying to lure you into their business!).
10. Going to the park (in particular, Dahl al Hammam over in al Markhiya near Landmark mall)and letting the kids play while we drink tea sitting in the grass watching them.
11. CHEAP GROCERIES! My gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawd it's criminal here back in the States how much they want for even a kilo of rice! Yeeks! It's minimum of 5x more and that's at the "cheap Indian grocery". It's 10x more than it was in Qatar for a kilo of rice at mainstream grocery stores.
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Its really sad that you had to leave your maid behind. Dp you plan on trying to find another one? i would love to have a maid. i think about it every morning as i walk around the house and pick up all of the stuff no one bothered to pick up last night.
What a great place...cheap groceries, maids...sign me up!
I miss rainbow too. Sweetened condensed milk is the best I've found here.
As for the price of food... tomatoes are what's really criminal. I remember feeling like they were trying to give them away in Qatar. I also really miss zatar pie. It's hard to find here.
On the other hand it's hard to express how nice it is to have trees around again.
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