China Trip @ Thursday January 24, 2008 05:16 pm by WunderKraut
We went to the store yesterday afternoon. I tell ya, it is a different world out there..
Walking to the store
I’m sure you noticed all the mopeds and bikes there. People in China use them in tremendous numbers. How they aren’t run over in 10 minutes is a mystery to me. Somehow the traffic just flows. Kind of like water. The bikes/mopeds fill in the spaces between the cars and the busses. I need to get video of that.
Shopping
This next video shows people staring at Jen in the store. It eventually grew almost comical. The Chinese in general love little babies and little Chinese babies being held by Americans is too much.
Finally, they have a lot of the same stuff here that they have back home, but it is just a little different. Take a bag of potato chips. I had to find “Classic American Flavor”..that meant just plain old chips back home, but here it is a flavor. There was also “Savory Pron Flavor” and the good old standby “Meat and Vegetable Flavor”
One of the funnier things I saw were their version of Moon Pies:

I wonder if I can get an RC Cola with that?
3 Responses to “Super Happy Fun Go Go Store”

Ilove the lady giving the peace sign in video #1…show the love:-)
Just catching up with your journey. Congratualations you guys and I can relate to the staring. I wore shorts in the summer time there and and felt like a circus freak. But like you said, it seemed really to be mostly curiosity.
I agree with Aimee! That was very funny. i guess the peace sign is universal!