The Burtons

The Burtons

Sunday, January 5, 2014

Grocery shopping

Grocery shopping here can be quite an adventure and have many faces.  I may do a few installments on this topic.

We have four small shops that sell imported items on our street. I take my rolling grocery bag to shop there.  Kenney likes to help.











There are outdoor local markets:



This vegetable stand sets up outside our apartment every day




A meat station outside our apartment

Another shop butchering a few blocks away - doesn't seem very clean...
 Meat at more local shops is often on a bed of ice in the middle of the aisle. This is at Walmart.
chicken feet

more chicken - hope no one sneezes on it...
sausages

dried fish and shrimp


In addition to regular cart there are these handy drag hand baskets:

And interesting items...

Apple vinegar drink. Recognize the Walmart brand?! I tried some and its basically slightly diluted apple cider vinegar.  There's also a carbonated soda version...



 By contrast here's a grocery store in Hong Kong...



While Hong Kong is definitely better, we can find a number of items in Shenzhen. 

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