Anyway, went out for a heuriger yesterday at this place called Vienna Classic with a bunch of new friends. Chiori(Jeff's girlfriend) organised it and so Jeff and Kiki just asked me along.
If i am not wrong, Viennese usually drink the wine together with sparkling water. You can of course taste the wine as it is but the waitresses will always serve water together with the wine so that those who wanna mix can do so.Together with this wine, you can usually get traditional Austrian food at a counter as well. You order what you want and then your food is weighed. Some of this Austrian food however, may not go very well with your palate. For example, yesterday Shini ordered some potatoes with this black looking thingy. We had no idea what it was and were pretty okay with eating it till, unfortunately, Jeff kindly told us that we were eating Black Pudding or erms... Sheep's blood. It actually tasted pretty okay but erms... after u know what it is, how can you even stomach it!?!?
I took something much safer, just roasted pork with a salad of potatoes and beetroot and these funny beans that the guy over the counter asked me to try. Lol~ I'm kinda glad that no one knows what the beans were and so i didn't have to suffer a fate like that of Shini's.
Anyway, it was a lot of fun yesterday cos there were just so many of us from like all over Asia and so many different Asian languages were flying across the table. The locals however, must have thought that we were all Chinese and that we all understood one another in whatever dialect or language we used. Lol~ I counted 6 languages, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Cantonese, English and German. The common language we used for communication was English, which a lot of people especially my friends from Europe find weird.
And here are the people who went for the heuriger and the countries they are from.
Chiori [the one with the yellow hairband] (Japan), Shini (Korea), Vishnu (Sg), Kokonau (Japan, Chiori's sister), Jennifer (Korea), Fish (Sg), Ivy (China), Connie (HK), Mindy (Sg), Brian [in black, in front of me] (HK), Jeff (Taiwan), Me, Kiki (China).
I took something much safer, just roasted pork with a salad of potatoes and beetroot and these funny beans that the guy over the counter asked me to try. Lol~ I'm kinda glad that no one knows what the beans were and so i didn't have to suffer a fate like that of Shini's.
Anyway, it was a lot of fun yesterday cos there were just so many of us from like all over Asia and so many different Asian languages were flying across the table. The locals however, must have thought that we were all Chinese and that we all understood one another in whatever dialect or language we used. Lol~ I counted 6 languages, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Cantonese, English and German. The common language we used for communication was English, which a lot of people especially my friends from Europe find weird.
And here are the people who went for the heuriger and the countries they are from.Chiori [the one with the yellow hairband] (Japan), Shini (Korea), Vishnu (Sg), Kokonau (Japan, Chiori's sister), Jennifer (Korea), Fish (Sg), Ivy (China), Connie (HK), Mindy (Sg), Brian [in black, in front of me] (HK), Jeff (Taiwan), Me, Kiki (China).
Multi national yea? Tell me about it. This is what i like most about being an exchange student in Vienna. You get to meet people all over the world and finally, you know a lot more about things outside of the small island I stayed in.
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