One of the other really important thing to do when arriving in a new land is to spot the grocery store. So we did walk out of our flat, and headed out.
After walking the small strip behind our place we found, a little further, after a park-like green space and another small commercial street, a Comper, a large supermarket.
As a place where most people go, a grocery store can be an interesting place were to start learning about a new culture.
So here are a few notes I took while doing my first basic grocery shopping:
- you can get tires and tooth brushes in the same aisle
- little vegetable variety - no more 50 different mushrooms kinds like in China
- but cucumbers have variety - they come either as french, english or very small and very prickly
- cheese can be green
- coliflowers purple
- watch for prices; same brand different smell cost 3 times more
- sugar appears as a food group of its own here
- milk does not come fresh, only in boxes (yes it is true - at Comper)
- proscuitto will never get in our cart, at 25 dollars for 5 slices
- large meat section. need to learn portuguese to buy the right cuts.
As a complement to our shopping the boys found a surveillance video camera where they could unleash some of their wild energies and entertain themselves.
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