Every Sunday, the Qatar Living content team will share their personal recommendations for everything from apps to films and brunches this week in Qatar. As a multinational group, there's a diversity of choices and preference that we hope will cater to everybody.
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1. Isla Mexican Kitchen
One of my favorite cuisines is Mexican food. I find that their dishes are full of flavours and very diverse. It has been hard for me to find a good Mexican restaurant that can deliver good Mexican food. Last week I visited for the first time Isla Mexican Kitchen at The Pearl Qatar. Created by Chef Richard Sandoval, internationally recognized as the Father of Modern Mexican Cuisine, Isla elevates Mexican cooking to new heights where guests can savor authentic Mexican street comfort foods, in the casual yet upbeat dining room and patio. I tried several dishes including their famous burrito, Nachos, and fajitas. My ultimate favorite was the cheese fondue which was a mix of different cheeses. This was extraordinary. Their Tres Leches dessert is to-die-for, what a spectacular cake. The churros as just as fantastic. If you like Mexican food I highly recommend checking our Isla Mexican Kitchen.
- Location: La Croisette, Porto Arabia, The Pearl-Qatar
- For more information call: 4409 5285
- Opening hours from 12:00 noon till 12:00 midnight
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2. MotoGP™ Test
Looks like it's going to be another weekend at the track for me because MotoGP™ World Championship heads to Qatar for one last test.
From the first to third of March, the MotoGP™ World Championship will arrive at the Losail International Circuit in Qatar for their final three days of testing before the 2018 season gets underway at the same venue on the 16th of March.
Entry to the grandstands for the MotoGP test will be free all 3 days for everyone. However, if you want to be up close and personal with the riders, you'll need paddock passes (comes with tickets for the Grand Prix of Qatar).
Honda's Marc Marquez and Ducati's Andrea Dovizioso will certainly be the ones to watch, but my goal will be to get an autograph from a certain legend. They call him The Doctor aka Valentino Rossi (No. 46), who will be racing for Yamaha.
Date: 1st to 3rd March 2018
Time: 1:00 pm to 9:00 pm.
3. Everything Sucks (now streaming in Netflix)
For anyone who went to high school in the 90s, this is the perfect throwback to a time when teen angst was defined by music, fashion and the emergence of a little thing called “the internet”. Everything Sucks is Netflix’s latest iconic series featuring the lives of a group of teenagers trying to find their way in the world. From first loves to future ambitions, the show is beautifully crafted to capture the pain and joy of growing up in the 90s. The pop culture references may be lost in the younger generation, but the search for self discovery is something everyone can relate to.
4. PING PONG: THE ANIMATION
Ping Pong: The Animation isn’t really about Ping Pong.
Fundamentally, it is about young men with vastly different backgrounds and motivations who are forced to grow through conflict. Ping Pong follows four main characters: Peco - a loud and cocky ping pong prodigy who begins to question himself and his love for the sport after he suffers a few surprising losses; Smile - a quiet and reserved player who is exceptionally skilled but lacks the desire, drive and ruthlessness to win; Kazama - the unconquerable world champion who is secretly being crushed by the weight of the expectations and responsibilities thrust upon him; and Kong Wenge - a Chinese player who was ejected from the Chinese national team and whose only hope of returning to his homeland is to win the youth championship in Japan. Each character’s world view is challenged as they face one another in the court, creating one of the most emotionally resonant coming-of-age stories I have ever experienced regardless of medium.
Ping Pong is also a visual triumph. Director Masaaki Yuasa (The Tatami Galaxy, Devilman Crybaby) utilizes a wildly expressive animation style that squeezes every iota of dramatic potential out of each scene - bodies stretch, time skews, and space itself fragments - turning every electrifying match into a tangible visual expression of the characters’ emotional and psychological states. This, along with the pseudo-rotoscoped linework, makes the series look less than DragonBall and more like Aeon Flux from MTV’s 90s animation block
The series is only 11 episodes and an English dub is widely available. Watch it if you hate Japanese animation.
5. Black Mirror
I’ve been hearing about this show for a while now. And almost every time someone recommended I watch, it was with great enthusiasm. So, this week I thought of finally sitting down to binge watch this series based on powerful word of mouth marketing.
I started with season three and since Black Mirror is not your conventional show, every episode is like a stand-alone story with duration ranging from 40 to 85 minutes per episode. Most of the stories take place in the near future. My thoughts after watching a few episodes are great admiration for the incredible imagination of the writer, Charlie Brooker, and the great cinematography of the show. I don’t think I’ve ever seen such high budget movie directing for a TV series( Netflix in this case) apart from Game of Thrones perhaps.
I would recommend anyone who’s looking for a brilliant show, to log into Netflix and watch an episode of Black Mirror. You will be amazed and most likely spend far too long thinking about each episode in the coming days.
6. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
This is one of my favourite movies set on D-Day or the Invasion of Normandy during WW2. The scenes have been applauded for their graphically realistic depiction of war. Captain John H. Miller (Tom Hanks) is sent out to assemble a company of six men to find a Private First Class James Francis Ryan, whose three brothers were also soldiers that died in the field of battle.
7. "The English Patient" by Michael Ondaatje
I've always enjoyed reading war novels, and The English Patient definitely ranks among my favourites. Published in 1992, Michael Ondaatje's novel follows four strangers brought together at an Italian villa during the Italian Campaign of World War II. The patient, an unrecognisably burned man, presumed to be English, is cared for by his Canadian Army nurse, and the two are joined by a Sikh British Army sapper, and a Canadian thief.
The narrative largely follows the recollections of the English patient as he pieces together his past and its truth.
Moving read. The film adaptation that followed four years later starring Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche was nominated for several prestigious awards, including Best Picture at the Oscars.
Let us know in the comments below if you liked our picks for this week. Have a great week ahead and do try some of our recommendations.
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