35 result(s) for expats in hungary in Shopping
Community Matters: Where’s Best To Buy Contact Lenses In Budapest
- 10 Sep 2019 9:25 AM
- shopping
Recently a member of the local expat community asked about where you can find contact lenses in Budapest. Here below are a few of the helpful hints offered via XpatLoop's group on Facebook from Xpats in the loop.
Community Matters: Where To Get International Press & Magazines In Budapest
- 4 Sep 2018 11:50 AM
- shopping
On 1 Sept. 2018 Larisa Inić asked the local expat community, via XpatLoop's Facebook group, for advice about where in Budapest she can buy international editions of Vogue magazine. For your interest here below are helpful hints and tips from 'Xpats in the Loop'.
Uniquely Hungary: Insights Into Budapest's Flea Markets, By Anne Zwack
- 16 Apr 2015 11:30 AM
- shopping
For those of you, like me, who have been going to the Ecseri Piac Flea Market for twenty years it is very sad to see how it is winding down. It used to be a regular Saturday rendezvous for diplomats and expats, and we would all have lunch in the little family run kocsma in the far left corner.
Xpat Review: Four Tigers Chinese Market In Budapest
- 21 Jun 2013 9:00 AM
- shopping
This is one of the oldest and biggest Chinese Markets in Budapest, remaining its traditional form from the 80’s. Although the founders of the market are Chinese, more and more other Asian communities have joined in at this cheap shopping haven in Hungary, namely Thai; Vietnamese and Chinese dominate.
Expat Outcry As Warburtons Stops Selling In Hungary
- 7 Dec 2012 10:45 AM
- shopping
In reply to recent pleas by expats in Budapest asking Warburtons about sales of UK style crumpets; bread and English muffins in Hungary, the company made a statement on 29 November 2012, "Unfortunately we've made the decision to end our trial of selling Warburtons products in certain parts of Central Europe. We have put every effort into making this work, but a number of challenging factors such ...
Where's The (Best) Beef In Budapest?
- 22 Nov 2012 9:30 AM
- shopping
Local expat Rob Longworth has been in the hospitality /restaurant industry in Hungary since 1995. So he really knows more than most about the supply side of related raw materials, like prime cuts of beef and other meats. The wholesale trade doesn't sell to private individuals of course, and unfortunately the quality of meat at supermarkets and butcher shops in Budapest is notoriously ...
Xpat Opinion: Budapest Chinese Market Closing?
- 20 Sep 2012 1:03 AM
- shopping
2014 Update: It was closed down. Hungary is not the most multicultural nation on the planet. 95% Magyar, 2% Roma, and the rest of us. Around 100,000 Chinese live in Hungary, and Budapest has its own Chinatown, well, a sprawling China-shanty-town. It's a real oddity, and if not the most immediate of local attractions, it is a side of the city that's bafflingly interesting, in a grimy kind of way. ...
New Wilkinson's British Sausages In Budapest
- 9 Feb 2012 11:30 AM
- shopping
In 2004 David Wilkinson started to produce high quality ‘bangers’ in Budapest for home delivery, including Plain Pork, Lincolnshire, Cumberland, O'Connell's Irish Tomato Chipolata, Wild Boar and Cranberry and Cocktail sausages. Made locally in a state of the art facility, with grade A pork and a meat content of 85%, he makes fresh sausages and delivers then to many homes in Hungary. To the ...
Community Matters: Where’s Best To Buy Contact Lenses In Budapest
- 10 Sep 2019 9:25 AM
- shopping
Recently a member of the local expat community asked about where you can find contact lenses in Budapest. Here below are a few of the helpful hints offered via XpatLoop's group on Facebook from Xpats in the loop.
Community Matters: Where To Get International Press & Magazines In Budapest
- 4 Sep 2018 11:50 AM
- shopping
On 1 Sept. 2018 Larisa Inić asked the local expat community, via XpatLoop's Facebook group, for advice about where in Budapest she can buy international editions of Vogue magazine. For your interest here below are helpful hints and tips from 'Xpats in the Loop'.
Uniquely Hungary: Insights Into Budapest's Flea Markets, By Anne Zwack
- 16 Apr 2015 11:30 AM
- shopping
For those of you, like me, who have been going to the Ecseri Piac Flea Market for twenty years it is very sad to see how it is winding down. It used to be a regular Saturday rendezvous for diplomats and expats, and we would all have lunch in the little family run kocsma in the far left corner.
Xpat Review: Four Tigers Chinese Market In Budapest
- 21 Jun 2013 9:00 AM
- shopping
This is one of the oldest and biggest Chinese Markets in Budapest, remaining its traditional form from the 80’s. Although the founders of the market are Chinese, more and more other Asian communities have joined in at this cheap shopping haven in Hungary, namely Thai; Vietnamese and Chinese dominate.
Expat Outcry As Warburtons Stops Selling In Hungary
- 7 Dec 2012 10:45 AM
- shopping
In reply to recent pleas by expats in Budapest asking Warburtons about sales of UK style crumpets; bread and English muffins in Hungary, the company made a statement on 29 November 2012, "Unfortunately we've made the decision to end our trial of selling Warburtons products in certain parts of Central Europe. We have put every effort into making this work, but a number of challenging factors such ...
Where's The (Best) Beef In Budapest?
- 22 Nov 2012 9:30 AM
- shopping
Local expat Rob Longworth has been in the hospitality /restaurant industry in Hungary since 1995. So he really knows more than most about the supply side of related raw materials, like prime cuts of beef and other meats. The wholesale trade doesn't sell to private individuals of course, and unfortunately the quality of meat at supermarkets and butcher shops in Budapest is notoriously ...
Xpat Opinion: Budapest Chinese Market Closing?
- 20 Sep 2012 1:03 AM
- shopping
2014 Update: It was closed down. Hungary is not the most multicultural nation on the planet. 95% Magyar, 2% Roma, and the rest of us. Around 100,000 Chinese live in Hungary, and Budapest has its own Chinatown, well, a sprawling China-shanty-town. It's a real oddity, and if not the most immediate of local attractions, it is a side of the city that's bafflingly interesting, in a grimy kind of way. ...
New Wilkinson's British Sausages In Budapest
- 9 Feb 2012 11:30 AM
- shopping
In 2004 David Wilkinson started to produce high quality ‘bangers’ in Budapest for home delivery, including Plain Pork, Lincolnshire, Cumberland, O'Connell's Irish Tomato Chipolata, Wild Boar and Cranberry and Cocktail sausages. Made locally in a state of the art facility, with grade A pork and a meat content of 85%, he makes fresh sausages and delivers then to many homes in Hungary. To the ...