Xpat Opinion: András Gendur - La Perle Noire Restaurant & Lounge

  • 21 Jan 2013 11:00 AM


1. Where did you grow up?
In the downtown of Budapest.

2. If you could be an expat anywhere in the world, where would you choose?
I would choose between Barcelona and Paris.

3. What would you miss most if you moved away from Hungary?
My family and my friends from human side, and the mood of the Budapest.

4. Friends are in Budapest for a weekend - what must they absolutely see and do?
I think the colourful downtown would be the first, next step we could visit the castle area, and the city park.

5. What is your favourite food?
The steak as salty dish, in sweet category the pancake.

6. What is your favourite sport / form of exercise?
My favourite sports are the handball and the soccer.

7. What is your favourite place in Hungary?
Budapest and Balatonfüred

8. What career other than yours would you love to pursue?
I would be law or teacher in economic theme.

9. What’s a job you would definitely never want?
Never say never but I think I wouldn’t be a good doctor.

10. Where did you spend your last vacation?
In Italy, but usually I use to choose interior destinations.

11. Where do you hope to spend your next one?
In Sopron.

12. What was your favourite band, film, or hobby as a teen?
My gusto is very classic, favourite band is The Beatles, film Bud Spencer and Terenc Hill productions, hobby is computer gaming.

13. Apart of temptation what can’t you resist?
The culinar temptations...

14. Red wine or white?
Pálinka and whisky :-)

15. Book or movie?
It depends on free time, basicly book.

16. Morning person or night person?
Absolutely morning person.

17. Which social issue do you feel most strongly about?
I think the most important problem nowadays, the question of deep poverty.

18. Buda or Pest side?
Pest side.

19. Which achievement in your life are you most pleased about?
The harmonic family life, and the permanent development.

20. What would you say is your personal motto?
The quotation originate from Charles Darwin: „Not the strongest will survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one with the most susceptible to changes”

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