Almost every time we go shopping, we are reminded of numerous differences between China and America. You might expect things at Walmart to be the same all over the world, but back in America, we don’t ever remember seeing an entire aisle of cooking oil:
Or soy sauce:
And of course, there are bins and bags of rice:
Many of the products also surprise us. While there may be on occasional piece of gristle on your chicken kabob in America, you normally wouldn’t consider it a selling point:
And just in case you were wondering what happened to old donkeys:
We’re not sure how much spice it takes to make donkey meat edible, but we suspect it may take quite a bit. With that in mind, it doesn’t really surprise us to see “strange taste” horsebeans (is that redundant?):
Even familiar brands offer some “interesting” flavors:
I have to admit, though we’ve lived in China for over two years, I still don’t think I’m ready to wake up to a bowl of crab oatmeal.
Yeah, so i just made delicious bread pudding with vanilla sauce, and i WAS enjoying eating it until i read this post. Glad to see dad so excited about the donkey meat though!
Crab oatmeal at breakfasttime sounds more appetizing than horsebeans at any time, whatever the flavor. Spiced Donkey Meat would be more exciting than either one, though.
I’ve been meaning to highlight Oreos in a post like this….have you noticed just how many flavors of them there are in the store these days?!
Yes, it seems strange that there is such a variety of cookie flavors in a land where many people eat the same mantou for breakfast and rice noodles for lunch every day!
haha dad, you look absolutely thrilled about that spiced donkey meat!
Actually, I think that I was thrilled to be putting it back on the shelf. But it must’ve been a hot item, since it was out of stock on our visit to Metro over the weekend…