Food glorious food!

So I opted for the closer Chinese grocery store rather than the expat store that's in the basement of a upper-scale Japanese shopping center (but you KNOW that I'll get there eventually). I realize that it may seem extremely dull that I keep writing about where I shop, but you have to understand I had the totally wrong idea about what my options were. For days and days, I had only passed stores with no English in the windows (but loads of dead chickens hanging instead), buckets of barely-alive fish on the sidewalk, and a wide assortment of strange-smelling food. I thought I was going to be eating at Subway every day.

The Park 'n Shop has saved my life (but for the record, has no parking lot). The produce was amazing (including an extensive organic section) and they had lots of American foods too (I walked away with some Pepperidge Farms cookies and Ben & Jerry's!). You know how they have live crabs and lobsters in stores in the US? Add fish and freshwater eels and you have a Chinese seafood section. I also set off the alarm as I was leaving ... another nice reminder of home. I think I have something magnetic implanted somewhere.

I'm finally starting to feel human (although I almost died coughing on the phone with AC today ...). By the way, he wanted me to write that I've almost been run over about 9 times. I keep looking the wrong way before cross the street. For those of us who aren't experienced travelers, it's easier to do than you think.

The picture is dragon fruit - looks much more interesting than it tastes. Kind of like kiwi, only blander.