The No Discernable Population Rule

Trip Start Aug 21, 2001

Trip End Sep 08, 2001

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Hyatt Regency Sharm El Sheikh Resort Sharm El-Sheikh

Flag of Egypt Sharm El Sheik, Egypt
Sunday, September 2, 2001

So ok, one of the deals with my job is that I travel from Los Angeles, to Sacramento (California's State Capitol) on a regular basis. In Sacramento, there is only one business hotel in walking distance from the State Capitol Building. This hotel happens to be a Hyatt. When I first starting staying there, I enrolled in the Hyatt Gold Passport frequent guest program. While preparing for this trip, I realized that I had enough points to get a free night at the Hyatt here in Sharm. So for the last 24 hours, we've been soaking up the good life at the Hyatt Regency Sharm El Sheikh.

Snorkeling, showers, aircon, frosty adult beverages, swimming pools, robes, you name it, we've done it, and it's been a welcome diversion from the daily grind of life on the road. As Ferris Beuhler would say, "If you have the means, I highly recommend it."

Last night we had an interesting experience

01 The view from our balcony

. This hotel is home to Sala Thai. That's right a Thai food place here on the Sinai coast. Now normally I have a rule about food, which I like to call the No Discernable Population Rule. It goes like this:

One should not eat a type of cuisine anyplace where you cannot determine that anyone from that cuisine's land of origin actually lives.

For example: Mexican food in Israel. Far as I can tell, no Mexicans live in Israel, so you probably aren't going to get the best enchiladas in Tel Aviv...

Now, I don't mind telling you that, at this point in the trip, I was little tired of pita and humus EVERY meal. On top of that, I love me some Pad Thai. On top of that, I figured there have to be Hyatts in Thailand right? Someone, somewhere in the Hyatt organization must have told these people how to make Thai food...right?

So we march into Sala Thai, sit down, and I order chicken pad thai. On the menu under Chicken Pad Thai it says, "Chicken, Thai noodles, eggs, and thai vegetables," which sounds about right. So what sent me and Amber into fits laughter was that when the pad thai got to my plate, well... for lack of a better way to describe it... it was... an omelet.

Yup, all those ingredients were wrapped up, INSIDE the eggs... good times!

Anyway, we are sufficiently recharged, and are heading for a two-three hour bus ride up the coast to Dahab.

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