Sardines
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I've mentioned before that I travel for work. Not a little bit, a lot. I fly out from SLC on a Monday and fly home 12 days later on Friday, then leave again on Monday. I just changed companies and my new schedule is brutal but the actual working locations are 1000% better. Last place was mostly meat packing plants. I'm a field service tech and I have to get on the ground, sometimes laying on the ground, and meat packing plants are not very nice to put it mildly. Anyway new job is in bottling plants. Not only is it typically, well always, nicer inside a bottling plant than a meat packing plant but meat packing plants are often in BFE while most bottling plants are adjacent to cities.
I'm currently in Oak Creek, WI, just outside Milwaukee. So far I've had better food in Burley, ID than here. Anyone else been to the area? There are a lot of Middle Eastern places but I haven't tried them yet. I usually get delivery to my hotel because I typically work 10-12hrs a day. I get all of my per diem regardless of what I spend on food (I pay for food out of pocket and get reimbursed a flat amount based on some official rate for the zip code I work in), but I'm happy to spend money on food.
I have a personal rule that I never eat beef two days in a row. That works for me since I like chicken just fine and I love shrimp. Here's a short list of my most frequent orders:
Indian - Chicken Saag
Thai - Chicken Larb and Tom Yum with either shrimp or chicken.
Mexican - Camarones A La Diabla (Shrimp in devil sauce), Aquachiles (which is made with shrimp).
Chinese - Kung Pao Chicken, Lamb W/Cumin, Twice Cooked Pork, Hot and Sour Soup
I like to try these from different places and sort of compare and contrast. I write a lot of food reviews on Yelp! (I'm aware that some people hate Yelp!).
Anyone else do a lot of eating on the road?
Anyway not sure what I wanted this thread to be. I started with one idea then basically turned this into a journal entry, so whatever.
I'm currently in Oak Creek, WI, just outside Milwaukee. So far I've had better food in Burley, ID than here. Anyone else been to the area? There are a lot of Middle Eastern places but I haven't tried them yet. I usually get delivery to my hotel because I typically work 10-12hrs a day. I get all of my per diem regardless of what I spend on food (I pay for food out of pocket and get reimbursed a flat amount based on some official rate for the zip code I work in), but I'm happy to spend money on food.
I have a personal rule that I never eat beef two days in a row. That works for me since I like chicken just fine and I love shrimp. Here's a short list of my most frequent orders:
Indian - Chicken Saag
Thai - Chicken Larb and Tom Yum with either shrimp or chicken.
Mexican - Camarones A La Diabla (Shrimp in devil sauce), Aquachiles (which is made with shrimp).
Chinese - Kung Pao Chicken, Lamb W/Cumin, Twice Cooked Pork, Hot and Sour Soup
I like to try these from different places and sort of compare and contrast. I write a lot of food reviews on Yelp! (I'm aware that some people hate Yelp!).
Anyone else do a lot of eating on the road?
Anyway not sure what I wanted this thread to be. I started with one idea then basically turned this into a journal entry, so whatever.
