Something about China, okay, how about supermarket?
I landed in Malaysia this Thursday, ran for a party on Friday night, nearly
passed out, it was DJ David Guetta, we drove one and half hour to Sepang F1 International Circus in KL(the way people call kuala lumpur)
I was desperate to toilet that had to get into the nearer male
restroom as we all drank something in
car already, which turned out to be a normal thing in KL, if you are desperate
for something, you can do it just because KL. It is an amazing city, which 70%
Malay, 30% Chinese and Indians. However Friday night, there are more rich
students from Middle East than us(Chinese, Indian, Londoners)
3am, as it said to be finished on ticket, ended just on
time. When 7 of us walked drunkly to the cars, a lady found out she had lost
her Prada purse, well honestly no one had seen she taken it out the whole
night, and no one had a clue why, how and where it happened. So this lady ran
back, searched everywhere with hopes, came back empty handed. I hope she could
find it maybe in her room that she might forget to bring it with her, but some
other friends say, better she never finds it, otherwise I will hate her, wasted
2 hours to search the whole stadium including the bins!
Arrived home just before the sun rising, 6am! Oh dear, with
hang over, I need food, so I ran to the little supermarket close to where I
live(finally supermarket!) Malaysian
supermarket may be a bit different the ones in China. There are Tesco,
7-11,Carrefore, so it’s more combined all. Well in Beijing where I live,
Carrefore is more popular, Wal-Mart is huge, 7-11 only in certain places such
as westernised apartment compounds, or SOHO(where a lot of companies
locaed). Same as British supermarket,
Chinese supermarkets have the same arrangement, but we have more counters that
the chefs are cooking and selling. Counters sells sea food as well.Oh gosh that
area smells fishy! Supermarket in Shanghai are very westernised, because
Shanghai is not too much China, it is probably the most westernised city in China.
You can find Japanese supermarket, Chinese supermarket, and purely western
supermarket as well, price is a bit higher but food are the ones you can find
in UK, exactly the same, sweeties, cheese, tomato soup tins, ketch up, even
bread.
Different things, I would say there are two main
differences, first one is there is always an area selling western imported food
in Chinese supermarkets, cheese, snacks, etc. Second difference is supermarkets
in China are always busy, and sometimes can be very crowded, have you seen
trolley jam? Well you can see it every supermarket at weekends in China. Last
year, crowds rushed into supermarkets and bought all salts, in whole China, I
bet they are still storage them somewhere at homes.Chinese panic-buy salt over Japan nuclear threat
Beijing supermarkets run out of salt after false rumours circulate that iodised salt can help ward off radiation poisoning
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