Our Monterrey experience truly was both
educational and exciting. Our trip coordinator, Laurent Tran
recorded his experiences for everyone to enjoy. Please read along
to find out in detail all the exciting and enlightening experiences he
and the rest of the IMC trip participants had.
Thursday June 13th
Wednesday night’s
adventure kept a few longer in bed and half of our group went MIA…and
missed our last lecture on NAFTA.
Our heavy schedule had
finally caught up with us, and we opted to abort our brewery visit
planned for early afternoon. However, that did not mean aborting lunch.
So, we went to the MARCO art museum….for its famous buffet. Deliciously
tormenting dishes awaited our taste buds… Details we shall spare…
We finished the day
with a visit at HEB, where we learned the following interesting facts:
- 20 HEB stores in
Monterrey
- 30% of Mexican
grocery shopper arrive via public transportation
- HEB stores in
Monterrey are twice as big (80k sqft) as in the US (35k sqft)
- Mexicans bring the
entire family to the grocery store
- Mexicans shop more
frequently because most households do not have freezers and because of
lack of transportation
- Mexican household
spend $41 less per week on groceries than in the US
While others were still
recovering from the previous day, three ventured out to Bar Rio, the
place to be and be seen in Monterrey. A $15 cover let us into the club,
but they served free bottled-beer till 11PM. Within one hour, we had
fully recovered our cover charge. The club had a stage where a
good-looking band played Mexican pop rock to a crowd dancing on tables!
This club had nothing to envy to clubs in Houston, or NY for that
matter!
Friday, June 15
For our last day, we
finished with another culinary event, right at our hotel…
The Grand Radisson
Hotel served an amazing buffet with gourmet food oozing into our plates:
shrimps larger than lobsters, fish tastier than filet mignon, clams
fresher than live ones… The elite eater would have been pleased.
However, what really caught our attention was the desert buffet.
While
only a few uninteresting cakes make a stand at most buffets along blend
allies such as pudding and jello, thirty some types of
artistically-gifted cakes dressed the desert buffet table, ornamented
with chocolate sculptures on pare with Rodin’s famous works. We had
never seen in our whole life such an assortment of sweets, beyond the
imagination our childhood, when candies were the true treasures of this
world…Gents and ladies alike unabashedly made three trips to the desert
buffet table. Restraint and dieting were shameful words to utter when
faced with such opportunities to satisfy our culinary senses!
And this is how we
ended our memorable adventure in Monterrey!
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