Shopping in the local Chinese supermarket is an adventure of its’ own.

My colleagues adamantly told me to leave my small bag where I kept the usual purse, passports, phone, DS, jewelries etc behind in my room before we set off to the nearby town(???) area behind our company’s factory ground. I’m using the word ‘town’ very very lightly here because the place is really rather tiny and it’s like a few strips of shops and night markets area flanked by a brand new supermarket probably the size of The Store in my hometown. Apparently there were many cases of snatch theft around :\ And my female colleague will not go there alone unless she’s with a guy. Scary.

The two of them picked me up from the building where I am staying in and made our way across the hostels area in the factory. This kind of reminded me of the University hostels environment but of course, there were far more people here than MMU ever had in a semester XD;;; I was informed that they both have a room for themselves whereas the workers from the factory stays in shared room of 6 people. Some people working in the office building itself has to share room as well. Didn’t have a chance to peek in the dorms and rooms myself so I had no idea how it was. Since I’m a guest I am staying in the guest rooms in the office building itself, my own room is like that of a hotel room with attached bathroom and people doing my laundry everyday XD There is a double bed, a fridge, working table and television and air conditioning :3 Apart from the awesome room in Macau last May, this should be the best hotel service I’d ever gotten so far XD

After getting the necessary supplies, the three of us decided to stalk the food department. I was amused at the way wine are just displayed on the shelves right next to things like fruit juices ( because we can’t, in Malaysia ). Since both the colleagues are Taiwanese, they had fun showing me the strange stuff around while being freaked themselves as well. Following my colleague who was shopping for spices and interesting local products as he’s heading back to his home country for holiday the next day we ended up spending the longest time debating which packet of seasonings to get.

Her : Which one tasted better?
Him : Some told me to look for the one with the face of a fat guy.
Her : This one?
Me : There’s some on the next row too
Him : Why are there so many types? O_O And they looks the same!
Me : You know what, the bloke looks kinda different on this packet
Her : Waitaminute .. the text is a bit different. It’s the other way around.
Him : A COPY PRODUCT?!
Everyone : O___O !!!
Me : Uhhh, look for the one with better printing quality? 8D;;;;;

Apparently, they produced imitation their own local famous product too. Including seasonings and stuff XD;;; And yeah, I think we spent a good 15 minutes debating that above XD

Unfortunately, no pictures because I wasn’t allowed to bring anything else apart from myself and some cash and my handphone D: Woes.

PS : Oh yeah, we didn’t get any seasoning with the picture of the fat guy afterall. We got something else altogether. Just to be safe XD;;

PPS : Since my flight are booked, confirmed and paid by the company, I’m gonna take the chance to run around in Hong Kong again next weekend 8D WISH ME LUCK AND LOADS OF FUN!

Tags: oh china!