Monday, July 1, 2019
Aljunied dinner, chicken on fire
Singapore, 5th July 2019 – Near Aljunied MRT station dinner.
Watch the chicken on fire video
Saturday, June 29, 2019
Atlas Bar, what a surprise!
Singapore, 29th June, 2019 - Went for a drink at Atlas Bar, what a great surprise! Majestic art deco building, fantastic decorations lobby bar.
Monday, May 13, 2019
Typical Shanghai sun
This is a very typical view in Shanghai, nice day, little sunny, but the sun is rarely clear, always misty and blurry …
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Monday, July 2, 2018
Japan: the dignity of a nation
What a lesson! After loosing the World Cup game at 94′ (and been sent home) fans helped cleaning up the stands and players cleaned the dressing room.
World Cup “class” winners!
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Hong Kong is the most expensive city
Hong Kong is the most expensive city
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Tuesday, July 25, 2017
Hema, first Chinese cashless supermarket
Several months we have heard of the innovative Amazon Go, a “prototype grocery store partially-automated, with customers able to purchase products without using a cashier or checkout station” (Wikipedia).
Despite delays in opening of cashierless store, in order to fix glitches in technology that automatically charges customers (The Wall Street Journal), the future ahead is clearly drawn.
Following on the footsteps of cashierless Amazon Go, China now has its own equivalent: the cashless supermarket: we could not resist going and experiencing it.
Friday, January 13, 2017
High school classmate reunion 30 years later
On July 1987 we had our state examination ending our 5-year high school journey. 5th Tele A was the last class: our Telecommunications major was last year, after that they changed into a new curricula to include more modern topics.
Good time, good memories!
Saturday, November 5, 2016
An average of 175 daily coffee cups are served in every Italian bars
6 billion coffee cups (including espresso and cappuccino) are served in Italian “bar” in a year with a turnover of 6.6 billion Euros and an average of 175 daily coffee served in every coffee shop.
Considering the Italian population between 18 and 65 years old is 34,7 million, that means every other Italian buys a cup of coffee in a bar daily.
While Italian bars brew 17 million cups per day, the whole world enjoys an astonishing number of 2 billion cup a day (read the BBC News article)
Data elaborated from FIPE
Source: La Repubblica article
Thursday, September 1, 2016
Pizza: Americans are the biggest consumers
With an average of 13 kg per capita the United States hold the world record of pizza consumption. Italians rank second with an average of 7.6 kg each.
Source: Coldiretti
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
Ice cream: Italians are the biggest consumers
Italians are ice cream biggest consumers, each year eat 12 kg per capita, plus 4 kg of industrial productions. In 2015 sales were up 8%.
Tuesday, August 16, 2016
What (American) consumers want to eat and drink?
Very interesting report on consumers preferences and habits
Pizza:
- 75% of consumers eat pizza twice a month or more often
- Women are more likely to order vegetable toppings; men are more likely to order meat toppings
- Top 3 pizza toppings: sausage 54%, mushroom 51%, extra cheese 45%
Snacks:
- 3 in 4 consumers’ snack at least once a day
- Forget midnight snacks, mid-afternoon is prime snacking time
Beverage:
- 80% of customers at coffee shops purchased only a drink on their recent visit (no food)
- Grown-ups’s night out: when drinking away from home, consumers say they are most likely to order these adult beverages: 76% beer, 73% cocktail and mixed drink, 65% wine, 42% straight hard liqueur
Sandwich:
- 3 sandwiches consumers eat per week as average
- 46% of sandwiches eaten are purchased away from home
- 3 out of 5 sandwiches are ordered to go
- Top 3 most ordered meat: chicken breast 47%, bacon 42%, ham 36%
Sunday, June 5, 2016
Visiting a friend’s greenhouse just outside Shanghai
and football class is still there!
