Shopping is an experience here. We have a supermarket in a strip mall near us. It has plenty of food, yet we walk through and can hardly find anything to buy. We recognize about 50% of the produce. There is lots of meat, most of it seafood. Here are the live turtles and fish.
There is lots of tea, coffee, alcohol, noodles, and candy. The kids love the candy as their dual immersion Chinese teachers have given it to them. We have gotten bread, milk, produce, oatmeal, honey, and candy there.
There is a robot that wanders around the store. I don’t know what it says since it speaks Chinese but it looks very friendly.
Going to Sam’s Club (we can take the metro or take a didi…the Chinese equivalent of Uber) is fun because it feels much more like home. There is a limited baking section but we did find a bag of dark chocolates 🙌 We haven’t been able to find salad anywhere. It seems like that is not a thing in China. I don’t think we will ever have a fully stocked pantry and cook dinner like we do in America because the restaurants are so cheap and SO good. It’s looking like mostly what we’ll buy is food for breakfast, lunch, Sunday dinner and Cookie Night. Speaking of Cookie Night, Adam worked hard to gather all the needed ingredients for cookies. Last week we did Oreos for Cookie Night but this week he made his cookies. Our oven is broken so he microwaved the cookies but they turned out well—better than any other cookie we could find in China!
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