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Screenshot from Angel of Mine

The movies below are now showing at Cinescape, Grand Cinemas and VOX:

New This Weekend:
After the Wedding (5.4)
Angel of Mine (8.1)
Super Bear (6.1)
The Final Wish (4.2)
Trouble (9.3)
Where’d You Go, Bernadette (6.6)

Other Movies Showing Now:
47 Meters Down Uncaged (5.3)
Aladdin (6.5)
Angel Has Fallen (7.0)
Dora and the Lost City of Gold (5.9)
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (7.5)
Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood (8.4)
Ready or Not (7.3)
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (7.1)
Spider-Man: Far from Home (8.2)
T-34 (6.3)
The Angry Birds Movie 2 (6.8)
The Current War (6.2)
The Lion King (6.2)
Toy Story 4 (9.0)

The movies below are also now showing at the Scientific Center IMAX theater:

Movies Showing Now:
Amazon Adventure 3D (6.6)
Backyard Wilderness 3D (8.4)
Fly Me to the Moon (4.5)
Galapagos 3D (8.6)
Oceans: Our Blue Planet (7.4)
Volcanoes 3D (6.6)

Numbers in brackets refer to the IMDB rating at time of publishing.

One of the oldest sports clubs in Kuwait is looking to recruit men and women for their rugby team. If you’re interested keep reading below for a small brief on who they are along with information on how to contact them.

Kuwait Scorpions are always looking to recruit new players for both the male and female teams. Any level of experience is welcome and pre-season training has started already and will continue every Monday and Wednesday from 7PM.

A brief overview of the Kuwait Scorpions Rugby Football Club (KSRFC)

• The Kuwait Scorpions are the oldest rugby club in the Middle East. Established in 1946 when Kuwait Oil Company and the British Army played the first ever recorded fixture in the region.

• The Kuwait Scorpions are a registered member of Gulf Rugby (formerly Arabian Gulf RFC) which is in turn affiliated with the IRB (International Rugby Board).

• The club consists of players from all around the world; including the United Kingdom, Republic of Fiji, USA, Canada, Lebanon, Egypt, South Africa, as well as an increasing number of Kuwaiti players.

• The Kuwait Scorpions is not gender biased and has two main branches, the Men’s Senior Team and the Ladies Senior Team. In addition to the two main branches, they have a Men’s Veteran Team that forms for special events.

Interested in becoming a Scorpion?
If you are, then just fill out this form.

Instagram: @q8scorpions
Facebook: facebook.com/q8scorpions
Website: q8scorpions.teamapp.com/

To check out photos of the Kuwait Scorpions from the early 50s, click here

A redditor put together an Excel sheet comparing the cinema prices in Kuwait including food and drinks. The version above is a simplified version comparing just the three main cinema companies but if you want to check out his more detailed list, click here.

The prices highlighted in green are the lowest for that category while red is for the highest. Overall, Cinescape has the most affordable prices while Vox is the most expensive.

The decision was taken by the Assistant Undersecretary for Consumer Protection and Control at the Ministry of Commerce to ban imports because the product contains pig gelatin.
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The authority stressed the gum products of all kinds are not suitable for people who follow halal food because they contain pig gelatin.
Source

It’s the same reason why we can’t get Lucky Charms and Count Chocula cereal in Kuwait anymore. From what I’ve been told, most gelatin is pig gelatin and if this rule was actually properly enforced, a lot more products would disappear from our supermarket shelves. If you want Ice Breakers you need to stock up on them ASAP before they completely disappear from the market.

I got this sent to me yesterday and it’s pretty funny.

Screenshot from T-34

The movies below are now showing at Cinescape, Grand Cinemas and VOX:

New This Weekend:
47 Meters Down Uncaged (5.3)
Angel Has Fallen (7.0)
El Chicano (5.2)
Fantastica (4.7)
Ready or Not (7.3)
Sheep & Wolves 2 (4.8)
T-34 (6.3)

Other Movies Showing Now:
Aladdin (6.5)
Avengers: Endgame (9.2)
Crawl (6.6)
Dora and the Lost City of Gold (5.9)
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (7.5)
Master Z: Ip Man Legacy (6.5)
Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood (8.4)
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (7.1)
Spider-Man: Far from Home (8.2)
The Angry Birds Movie 2 (6.8)
The Art of Racing in the Rain (7.2)
The Boat (6.3)
The Current War (6.2)
The Lion King (6.2)
Toy Story 4 (9.0)

The movies below are also now showing at the Scientific Center IMAX theater:

Movies Showing Now:
Amazon Adventure 3D (6.6)
Backyard Wilderness 3D (8.4)
Fly Me to the Moon (4.5)
Galapagos 3D (8.6)
Oceans: Our Blue Planet (7.4)
Volcanoes 3D (6.6)

Numbers in brackets refer to the IMDB rating at time of publishing.

Found this list online and no idea how they came up with it but seems a bit odd to me. Check out the top 7 below:

1. Mutlaa Ridge
2. Al Kout Beach
3. Seif Palace
4. Green Island
5. Liberation Tower
6. Souq Al Mubarakeya
7. Salmiya Palace

I would have expected JACC, Kuwait Towers, Avenues and Al Shaheed Park to be on a top 7 list. I definitely wasn’t expecting Salmiya Palace or Seif Palace. Link

Mango soft serve is all the rage right now (well every summer) so I decided to try three of the most popular ones and do a comparison. Here are the results:

#1 Press ( Starting from 950 fils)
Taste: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Looks: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Price: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Overall: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

#2 Pick (Starting from 600 fils)
Taste: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Looks: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Price: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Overall: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

#3 Ananas (KD2.450)
Taste: ⭐⭐⭐
Looks: ⭐⭐⭐
Price: ⭐⭐
Overall: ⭐⭐⭐

A few months ago during Ramadan I was driving by the Press location in the city and noticed a long queue out the door. So I called up a friend and asked them why that was and they told me it’s because of their mango soft serve. I ended up trying it a few weeks later and I’ve been hooked on it ever since. From the three soft serves above, the Press one tasted the closest to an actual mango which is why it’s my favorite of the bunch. Pick on the other hand which is usually my goto soft serve place came second for me even though their mango soft serve is really great, it’s just that Press set the bar pretty high on this one. Finally in third place it’s Ananas, their soft serve tasted the most creamy-ish and the least fruity, even though it came with actual mango pieces and mango syrup all over it

What’s your favorite mango soft serve in Kuwait? Also what else do you want me to compare? Best burgers? Best car wash? Give me some ideas.

Since I had a lot of free time over Eid I decided to do a hotdog comparison. My go-to place usually is Shake Shack but decided to try out the Five Guys hotdog and the Johnny Rockets one which I hadn’t had in years. Here are the results:

#1 Shake Shack (KD1.000)
Bun: ⭐⭐⭐
Hotdog: ⭐⭐⭐
Looks: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Price: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Overall: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

#2 Five Guys (KD1.750)
Bun: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Hotdog: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Looks: ⭐⭐
Price: ⭐⭐⭐
Overall: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

#3 Johnny Rockets (KD1.700)
Bun: ⭐
Hotdog: ⭐⭐
Looks: ⭐⭐
Price: ⭐⭐
Overall: ⭐⭐

I had all three hotdogs with just ketchup and mustard. My favorite tasting one ended up being the Five Guys hotdog but in the end, Shake Shack ended up slightly edging out because of the price. Johnny Rockets was easily the worst of the three, the bun to hotdog ratio was completely off and I also thought it was the greasiest of the three.

What’s your favorite hotdog place in Kuwait?

Update: The Shake Shack hotdog is no longer being sold for KD1 and instead now costs KD1.5

I spotted the very cool Stranger Things The Upside Down LEGO set being sold at the LEGO store in Avenues last week. They’re selling it for KD80 which surprisingly is cheaper than the price on Amazon (KD100). I guess the whole selling sets for double the price of Amazon didn’t work for them.

Found this photo on a twitter account with the caption “First elephant in Kuwait for the zoo – Kuwait 1952”. I’m not sure which zoo though since the current one opened up in 1968, so could be some other zoo that was open back then (did Ahmadi have a zoo?) or maybe it was part of a traveling circus? Still cute though.

via Bader AlRoudan

Update: Supposedly there was a zoo called the Salwa Garden, and it was the first zoo in Kuwait and the GCC. Trying to get more info on this now.

Update2: Check out the snippet below

Not many visitors to the Zoo at Omariya know that Kuwait was the first country in the Gulf where a zoo was established، in 1955. And even less people will remember that it was Shaikh Jabir Al Abdullah Al Jabir Al Sabah who set up the region’s first zoo known as Salwa garden، after which the place Salwa was so named subsequently. He purchased animals، with his own money and eventually transferred his collection in 1965 to form the nucleus of Umariya Zoo.

The long and moving story has been told in the book titled “Salwa Garden: the first zoo in Kuwait and the Arabian Gulf” written and published by his daughter Shaikha Mona Jabir Al Abdullah Al Jabir Al Sabah، Assistant Undersecretary of Al Diwan Al Amiri and author of several research-oriented books on Kuwait and the Gulf. Source

Update3: How am I just finding out about this? The picture below is of the entrance to the zoo and you can see a couple of more photos here.

Screenshot from Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood

The movies below are now showing at Cinescape, Grand Cinemas and VOX:

New This Weekend:
Dora and the Lost City of Gold (5.9)
Master Z: Ip Man Legacy (6.5)
Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood (8.4)
The Current War (6.2)

Other Movies Showing Now:
Aladdin (6.5)
Annabelle Comes Home (7.0)
Avengers: Endgame (9.2)
Bring The Soul: The Movie (7.7)
Crawl (6.6)
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (7.5)
Night Hunter (7.0)
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (7.1)
Spider-Man: Far from Home (8.2)
The Angry Birds Movie 2 (6.8)
The Art of Racing in the Rain (7.2)
The Boat (6.3)
The Kitchen (5.8)
The Lion King (6.2)
The Queen’s Corgi (4.7)
Toy Story 4 (9.0)

The movies below are also now showing at the Scientific Center IMAX theater:

Movies Showing Now:
Amazon Adventure 3D (6.6)
Backyard Wilderness 3D (8.4)
Great White Shark 3D (7.3)
Fly Me to the Moon (4.5)
Galapagos 3D (8.6)
The Lion King – 1994 (8.5)
Oceans: Our Blue Planet (7.4)
Volcanoes 3D (6.6)

Numbers in brackets refer to the IMDB rating at time of publishing.

Screenshot from The Kitchen

The movies below are now showing at Cinescape, Grand Cinemas and VOX:

New This Weekend:
Bring The Soul: The Movie (7.7)
Night Hunter (7.0)
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (7.1)
The Angry Birds Movie 2 (6.8)
The Art of Racing in the Rain (7.2)
The Boat (6.3)
The Kitchen (5.8)

Other Movies Showing Now:
Aladdin (6.5)
Annabelle Comes Home (7.0)
Avengers: Endgame (9.2)
Crawl (6.6)
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (7.5)
Spider-Man: Far from Home (8.2)
The Lion King (6.2)
The Queen’s Corgi (4.7)
Toy Story 4 (9.0)

The movies below are also now showing at the Scientific Center IMAX theater:

Movies Showing Now:
Amazon Adventure 3D (6.6)
Great White Shark 3D (7.3)
Fly Me to the Moon (4.5)
Galapagos 3D (8.6)
The Lion King – 1994 (8.5)
Oceans: Our Blue Planet (7.4)
Volcanoes 3D (6.6)

Numbers in brackets refer to the IMDB rating at time of publishing.

Back in 2014, I found out about a bookstore located inside the Al Bahhar Entertainment Village (Youm Al Bahar) called the Kuwait Heritage Library. I never went back to it after my initial trip but decided to do so this past Friday to see if it was still there. It was!

Since my last visit, the place has changed quite a bit, the shelves now reach the ceiling and the tiny shop was even more packed with books. It’s pretty hard to move around inside the shop now because there are books everywhere.

What I loved about the bookshop is the vast amount of old books it contained in both English and Arabic. I found a ton of stuff I wanted but they were sadly all overpriced. For example, they had an original copy of the Sons of Sinbad book by Alan Villiers priced at KD150 when similar condition books can be found online for around 40-50KD. They also had The Kuwait Urbanization book listed for KD170 when better condition copies can also be found online for around KD100 (I got mine for KD50).

BUT, if you love digging through piles of old books and flipping through pages of vintage books on Kuwait then you’re gonna really love this place. They’re open in the evening from around 6PM to 10PM but their AC isn’t working really well right now so its SUPER HOT inside. So if you pass by make sure you’re in your gym gear or something you don’t mind sweating in. If you don’t know where Youm Al Bahar is, here is the location on Google Maps. They’re also on Instagram @kuwait.heritage.library

Last Thursday I was at the National Library looking for a specific book related to the Iraq invasion when I found a book called “Kuwaiti Resistance as Revealed by Iraqi Documents“. From the cover, it didn’t look like much but after flipping a few pages I was hooked. I knew I wanted that book so I went online to buy one from Amazon or eBay when I noticed the book was published by the Center for Research and Studies on Kuwait. The center was located next to my office so after work I decided to head to their small bookshop to see if they had it. They did, in fact, they had the book in English, Arabic, and French and for just KD3!

I’ve been meaning to post about the place for some time now ever since I found out they had a book shop. It was a small shop with just their publications so didn’t think it would be an interesting post but then on Thursday I also found out they had a library with a lot of interesting books and it was open to the public!

The Center for Research and Studies on Kuwait was established in 1992 with a number of objectives but mainly to collect various documents and studies relating to the Iraqi aggression against Kuwait. The book I purchased is one of many books the center has published on the invasion but they also have a wide range of books on Kuwait (history, environment, wildlife, etc).

The center has a library which although not as big as the National Library at least is open in the afternoon so people with jobs can pass by after work. The library is mostly filled with Arabic books but they did have a pretty decently sized section filled with English books as well as an archive of researches and presentations including proposals on the Kuwait Water Front Project (the Gulf Road basically) and original plans for the Kuwait Radion Television Centre which I had never seen before. They also had an archive of LIFE magazine issues dating from 1956 to 1963, two copies of the Saba Shiber book The Kuwait Urbanization and another book by Saba I didn’t know existed called Recent Arab City Growth (also dating back to the 60s and there is a copy on eBay for $375 so someone, please buy it right now because I can’t afford to buy all the rare books on Kuwait by myself).

If you’re looking to buy some books or spend some time in a library flipping through old books on Kuwait this is the place. Like I said it’s nowhere near as big as the Nationa Library but at least they have better opening hours. The center is open from 8AM to 1:30PM and then again from 5PM to 7:30PM. Here is their location on Google Maps.