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If he adds 'Spurt &' to his moniker he'd raise a smirk from me (and get some Karma)

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Going back to the OP's question:

No I'm not dead - it just feels like it - I just got back from two days in Doha........ :(

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I win ... 3 days in Kuwait this week.

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Lucky you! You can detox........

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Two days emptying every part of my innards in perfect liquid form thanks to China Garden's sweet and sour chicken (no veg).

I win.

Enjoy your brekkie, twats.

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I'd never put the obvious together to consider your background being military. Suppose I never actually stopped to think about it, I don't really care about you enough to try and work out things like that (it's not just you, it's everyone on here...I don't think anyone really cares do they?).

It explains a lot because I've got a few military mates from military families and your attitude reminds me of my best mates old man who was a Major in the artillery. The blunt tones and way he said even nice stuff used to make me laugh, let alone when he went on a rant about something or delivered something cutting to shut someone up. Used to piss my pants.

Keep it up, sir.

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Even the cockroaches get bored here...

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agree 100% why would you. Ive had years and years of living in a sarcastic, take no prisoners, piss taking enviroment, then i left the military and starting working offshore where it is actually worse...I'm damaged beyond repair with regards to normal civil behaviour...THANK ****.:thumbsup:

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I'm glad you didn't take that the wrong way, it wasn't meant rudely.

Military to offshore - some would say that's the career path of a closet homo.......hahahahahahahhahaa

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I'm actually more of a bigot than a racist so maybe we can arrange a swop of titles?

N.

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100% AA. If this is what the Bored has become, thank Christ I am leaving...

Apathetic and self-centred ....

Pity, but things change...

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I bet this is not your last post by a long shot....

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Cheeky bugger, don't know whether I want to slap you or shag you

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What is the deal with the sensitive stomachs of people living in Dubai?

One of my friends is terrified of eating anything in old Dubai, and complains of the squirts every time he eats any take-aways from anywhere.

Toughen up by eating some dodgy food. Get yourself an iron stomach! Much better life afterwards...:thumbsup:

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really? I'll eat anywhere. Some of those little places are cracking.

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Agree.

A while back, some of my mates embarked on an eating-out-odyssey, starting opposite that Spinney's near Karama and working their way along to the creek via the heart of Bur Dubai, eating out at a different place every night along the way.

It was their recommendation that first alerted me to the superb Nawab, an unassuming little Indian hidden away in the corner of that computer mall near the corner of Bank and Mankhool.

I've never had a Chernobyl eating out at any of those places.

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I've been to that place in computer plaza as well. Awesome food, brilliant service and cheap as chips! If you go there I recommend the Daal Makhni.

Some people are seriously missing out. Dubai is a melting pot of cultures, why miss out on the excellent food available by sticking to Rivington, Nobu and other mostly overrated and seriously expensive places...

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Agree with the above couple of posts. As soon as I hit a foreign city I try to work out where the locals eat (not so difficult)--ok, the big hotels usually have excellent food, but what's the point of being somewhere different if you eat the same food as you can eat everywhere else? (I did get serious food poisoning from eating in the street markets in Korea, though--but even that cloud had a silver lining in that it introduced me to acupuncture.)

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As soon as you hit third world food poisoning is a lottery. I had some dodgy stuff in Caucasus and Africa and went fine but I got the worst poisoning ever from a burger in Sheraton in Bahrain.

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My stomach is tough. It's a mixture of brawn and aggression and concrete....so there.

Anyway sticking to the mainstream suits most people because it's easy and there are only a handful of horror stories compared to that of the folk who've been hunting round dirty restaurants in shit parts of cities. Interestingly, it does my head in when you speak to people and they talk non stop about all these local places they've been to eat and just end up sounding so incredibly patronising. Was that the best Indian / Thai / Chinese etc that you've ever eaten....or is it because is was 3 quid and a proper Indian served you it? I don't know.

But anyway, Ravi's in Satwa is decent (think we've all discussed before and it's Pakistani isn't it?) and there is a corner shop / cafe in Karama that sells the best shwarma that I've ever eaten. Can't remember the name but it had an orange sign.

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Same everywhere though. You always get a few paranoid folk or those who are uncomfortable if they don't get a tablecloth or the yellow arches.

I reckon the most disappointing food is from the middle range places. We tend to go to super cheap or occasionally to high end places now and forget the middle. My favourite cheap eat has to be Bombay Chowpatty.

I do think that local chicken can often be a bit dodgy, but that's because of all the chemicals in it.

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I completely agree with you! Some people just can't stop talking up where they've been and consistently describe the food as authentic and 'heavenly'. I don't care!! :frown:

I will eat anywhere (without making a big deal out of it) and if I was in Bur Dubai buying perfume (testers for a bargain don't you know :thumbsup:) or computer equipment and felt the pangs of hunger I would gladly try that little place most people would have avoided like the plague. I can count my bad experiences through time on one hand.

I have only two rules;

1. I will not eat from a place where the food is sat in dishes on display (disgusting!)
2. I will not eat if the restaurant is empty and actually the more people in it the better it is.

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Amen to all of that.

Rule 1 agree
Rule 2 agree
Rule 3 - I won't eat somewhere that animals (dogs / cats) are wandering around the place.

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Rule 3 -What about if they're on the menu ?

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There was one of those dead cheap and slightly tatty eateries in my previous stamping ground in Tripoli. The best shwarma and kebabs in town at 70p a go. The place was always thronging with locals and expats alike and the Libyan lads who ran the place always had a smile and a chit-chat to practice their English.

I hope they're all alright after the revolution. If I ever had to go back to Libya, this place would be the only saving grace!

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Got a bad case of food poisoning in London in 2006. Was throwing up for a couple of days straight, couldn't drink water for 2 days. Got soo bad I started throwing up blood for 2 days . Finally called cousin to take me to emergency.

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oh goodie, a thread I can relate to.

I've had to prolong a stopover by 48 hrs in Singapore because I was pooing yellow bile due to nasty Balikpapan stomach bug.

In general, whilst it feels awful in an omg-i-wanna-die-cos-its-pouring-outta-both-ends-simultaneously way, a good dose of D&V clears the system out rather well I find. So I eat where I want, and don't worry for the most part about bugs. Giardosis is horrible though as it lasts on and off for months unless you smack it with some even more horrible anti-biotics.

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If you are throwing up with no end in sight, Zofran is your best friend. As someone who ends up with gastroenteritis every bloody year, the name brand med mentioned above is a miracle.

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this thread has taken a delightful turn- :sick:

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What you did there, I see it:thumbup:

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That is a bad rule. It should include monkeys at the breakfast buffet. But that's never stopped me.

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Never had the option to eat either of them. Not sure whether I would or not. I think I would, live once and all that.

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Had dog a few times in The Phillippines , tasted like shite to be honest , loads of small bones and a rancid tasting meat.

The Fillipino's reckon black dog tastes better, f**k knows how that works !

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that would rule out having breakfast at any hotel on the Kenyan coast. there was something funny (and slightly annoying after a while) about monkeys nicking your food from the table...

anyway. i wouldn't rule out places with dogs/cats walking around either. otherwise you'd have a hard time getting a pub lunch in the UK.

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there must be some dogs that taste okay. like those little poodle mop-looking things they look like they could be nice on a barbeque..

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Yeah, can't imagine it tastes great....but still worth a shot.

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That's a good point....however I still struggle to stop my mind from wandering down a path of the dogs bollocks flapping on my ham, egg and chips before being brought to me.

Eurgh.

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it's all part of the experience..:p

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Yes, this was my experience at Nyali Beach and the real life Faulty Towers, Outrigger in Mombasa run by a strange old Belgian couple. Oh the stories I could tell of my stay at that shit hole.

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I hope you never send your food back with a complaint. It would possibly be what the chef or waiter does to your food. This info I have from first hand sources working in kitchens. And to boot, last time food was sent back from a table I was at, it got tampered with. But it's hard to please an American at a restaurant..sheesh!