My friend, Timo, recently sent me a link of someone else's Wal-Mart in China photos. They're way better than mine.
Here are some of my favorites:
All sixteen photos from this site can be seen here.
These are some pretty wild photos. The Wal-Marts in Xi'an didn't have crocodiles, turtles, or pig faces. Or at least I don't remember seeing them. My guess is that this Wal-Mart is in southern China.
The Wal-Mart website says that it has 180 stores in over 90 cities. Wal-Mart is obviously doing pretty well in China. They're very clean and the quality of the things in the store is relatively high. They're something of an upscale market.
I'm a little embarrased to admit it, but I really enjoyed shopping at Wal-Mart in Xi'an. I was able to get things like Doritos, grapefruit, and several other western items that I missed. Since being back in the US, Qian and I have only been to Wal-Mart a couple times. We don't enjoy American ones nearly as much.
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Pretty much every super market here (in Guangzhou) is like this. Imagine my plight - a vegetarian having to wade through all this to pick up milk and bread !!!
That's what I figured, Ramesh. The North/South divide is strong. The difference in cuisine between Xi'an and Dongguan is huge.
I admire you being a vegetarian in China. I think it's a tough place to be one. Chinese food pretty much across the board is very meaty.
I had friends who were vegetarians in Xi'an. Sometimes it seemed like Chinese people thought something was wrong with them.
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Thanks,
James
wow!!! reptiles? I didn't see them when I was in Beijing in 2002. thank God. It would be creepy.
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