Salam aleikum! Susie is going to share her Amman story with you guys again!(It feels like Arabian Night somehow!lol)
Well, I just heard that the price of gas and gasoline is getting higher and higher in Jordan recently...so it reminds me of those funny days when I lived there. Why??? Because the theme of this story is similar to the one I told you last time. It is all about GAS!!!!
As some of us have known, living in Jordan is actually not that cheap if compared with some other Arabian countries like Egypt or Syria (even some Gulf countries!) since Jordan is lack of natural resources like petroleum, so they have to import those raw materials from other countries, which caused higher price of living. Ironically, it doesn't mean you are in a higher living standard though.
As foreign students, we wanted to reduce the expense on food so that we tried to cook almost every day (if possible), which means... gas is VERY important to us!! By the way, the gas there has another usage, for heaters!!(It could be dangerous in some way...) Thank God both Jordan and Taiwan use stoves for cooking!lol (or wth do I think how Arab cook...XD) There's one thing interesting...The size of the gas barrel in Jordan is actually smaller than that in Taiwan, but surprisingly, the Jordanian one can usually last longer than a Taiwanese one even though we cooked every day! The fact is the different design of stoves accounts for the consumption of gas. (No matter how you switch the fire, there's no difference. It could be a good thing since we seldom made our food burnt...lol)
Anyway, the price for a barrel of gas in Jordan was around 6~7 Jordanian Dinars, depending on how to get the gas. You can either ask your Haris or a gas-seller to bring you one once you are running out of gas. Usually it would be a bit more expensive if you buy it from Haris.