Biscuity-goodness

For anyone who can’t read Korean and might be wondering about the post below, let me explain.

Firstly, I’ve encouraged Cathryn to write on here as often as she can. While she could write in English, I think her target audience is her family and friends in Korea, so she’ll be writing in Korean. Occasionally I might translate the post or post something similar (which I will be doing today. But if you want to skip the Korean posts and only look at the English ones, you should be able to click on the “Matthew” category on the right.

Secondly, to the contents of the post!

Yesterday was shopping day. In Kunming we have 3 options for big-supermarket-style-shopping.

1. walmart. Famous in America, failed in Korea and unheard of in Australia. 40 mins on 2 busses from our house, we’ve been there twice. It seems that everything in walmart is more expensive than other places.

2. Carrefour. A French supermarket chain, sells a mix of local and imported stuff. 2 bus stops/20 mins walk from our place. We’ve been there a couple of times, and the prices are reasonable.

3. Metro. Not sure where this one comes from, but it has the largest range of imported stuff that we’ve found here in Kunming and the prices are reasonable. The furthest from our house by bus, but only a 12RMB taxi ride home with all the loot we’ve bought.

Despite being the furthest away, Metro is our preference. Even though it’s not the largest in general, as mentioned above, it has the largest range of imported food stuffs. Previously we have managed to buy devondale UHT milk from Australia, however we’ve never seen it there on subseqent visits Bega cheese is a regular shelf-item, and yesterday we hit the jackpot – Arnotts Biscuits!!

From China – Food

As well as the scotch fingers (Cathryn’s favourite) and pillow biscuits (my favourite) that we bought yesterday they had most of the usual ones including timtams, but unfortunately no kingstons (My second favourite). This may have been a blessing though, as the price was almost double what I think we would usually pay in Australia. In total, the two packets cost us about 70RMB. It’s well worth it in my mind We grabbed them while we could because often there’s no second chances.