New Mates: Part 1

Week one of work is finished and so far so good! It's a very international office and coworkers have been very welcoming. Coffee & gelato runs, yoga and pilates classes and outdoor lunches have all helped me make new office friends, or mates! In general, there is a much more laid back feel in the office that I am fully embracing!

View right outside the office. The Google building is on the left.

The office peeps are great but this weekend I was determined to meet Sydneysiders to build my network and I did just that by going on a blind date (well not really as it was a friend of a friend but it felt like that leading up to our meeting!) and talking ---> tagging along with strangers for the day. I'd say I was successful!


Friday night after happy hour, my roomie and my "blind date" ventured out to the Chinatown Night Market to check out the stalls and get some grub. Although we were strangers just a drink before, we got to know each other over tasty street meat (sticks of lobster & chicken balls) and hand-pulled noodles, sautéed veggies & dumplings from Chinese Noodle Restaurant (such an original name, isn’t it?). It was a little whole in the wall restaurant that came highly recommended and was a BYO (surprisingly, there are a ton here), cheap and delish. Chinese Noodle Restaurant is famous not only for its handmade noodles, but because you can watch them making them as you eat. Afterwards, we walked around the stalls- mostly tchotchkes but fun to see, before we left the neighborhood for a nightcap.

Walking over the Pyrmont Bridge to get to the city

Chinatown Night Market Entrance

Ceiling of Chinese Noodle Restaurant. Classy, huh?

yum!

Stomachs happy & full we headed closer to home for another drink off Darling Harbour. I have no idea what this building is but thought it looked pretty cool!

Stay tuned for New Mates: Part 2...coming soon!