Day Two - The Supermarket

Today's main adventure was a trip to the mega supermarket (Carrefour) to stock our fridge. We had fun checking out the novel produce including some scary looking prickly fruits. Chana also particularly enjoyed the large selection of teas and tofu products. We allowed ourselves a fair number of familiar imports (cheese, olives, peanut butter) but also stocked up on chinese cooking essentials in the hopes that we'll soon be competent in preparing this cuisine.

Some of the 'groceries' were rather frightening and made me think I might have wandered into a pet store by mistake.
Q) Can you make out the creatures in this photo?
A) turtles (L) and frogs (R)!

For dinner we tried a Shanghainese restaurant called 1221 where we both favoured the garlicky green beans. We also both got a kick out of the cool tea pourer that wielded a meter long spout - apparently the Chinese equivalent of those guys that walk around with oversize peppermills! We had extra entertainment trying to explain to our taxi driver where we lived since he didn't speak any english (and our 'hello' and 'thank you' didn't help) and his eyesight was too poor to read the address on the notepad we had with us.

Quote of the day (by Jerel): "Everyone here is playing chicken at all times".