RT-Mart--the Grocery Store

It's a good thing that I have been to several Asian markets in the US or I would have been in for a huge shock shopping at the local grocery store.  They are just so different!  The one we shop at is a bit like Wal-Mart so it's more than food and household supplies.  I will provide a little commentary on a few of them, but the pictures pretty much speak for themselves.  

It's on the 2nd floor of the mall so we ride an escalator up and down.

You can find the bike helmets by the head massagers, both in a corner of the store that no one ever goes.

You'll find a very large selection of 'slides'. Chinese don't wear shoes in their houses and have these to put on when you enter.  The repairmen/visitors wear shoe covers when they come into your house.

Your guess is as good as mine as to what these cleaning supplies are.  Tide gets our business because their logo is on things and I can tell what it is!

There are a couple of shelves of Oreos; they are a different recipe here and lots of interesting flavors.  Green grape with peach on the same cookie. Hmmm.

The cereal selection:

About $7.60 for a bar of chocolate.

They have a few potato chips. We can get regular Lays and then a host of very strange flavors:

Produce is fairly good and very different. There are many things that I have no idea what they are.  Thank goodness for Google Lens.  I can't get limes.  I finally found some avocados only to cut them open and find them rotten (they were prepackaged in a set of 2.) No jalapenos or head cauliflower (they have the bushy kind), parsley, fresh herbs--basil, dill.  Then lots of fruit.  Tom told me some lady was asking me not to take photos, so I stopped in this area.  The fruit varieties are fun. 

Lots of bins with unknown things--most of them open.

Dried sea animals.

Dried sea weed.

Dried other stuff (who knows, who looks too closely...)

Large bins of rice and similar products.  If you want, put your hand in it and grab a handful, put it to your nose and sniff it, put it back like everyone else.....

Bakery items:

The meat department:

It also doubles as a pet store. Just kidding.

These frogs are bigger than your hands.

Shelled animals.

If you're lucky, a fish will put on a show and jump out of the water and flop around on the floor for you.

It's often really crowded.

Check out is always so slow;  if you don't bring your own bags you can buy them.  Then carry it all home.  We live about 1000 steps from the grocery store; which isn't far if you're not carrying groceries.  

At the bottom of the down escalator you can buy a new scooter for $550 or if you go to the cheaper side you can get them for $150.

Also on the way out you can buy candied fruit on a stick.  Sometimes we do.

Or a variety of meats that they will put on a stick for you.  We never do.

Walk out and on home!

Happy shopping!  Come and visit and I'll show you a good time at RT-Mart!