This is how a typical SPAR supermarket looks like, it seems very quiet because most of them have gone outstation due to the long weekend. Today is Good Friday, then coming Monday is Easter Monday/family day. Couldn't take more pics cos i had my hands full with stuff. Plastic bags here cost 25cents. A lot of people bring their own shopping bag, which is a good environmental action.
We also manage to go to "chinatown" today. This place is actually called Bruma and it has a concentrated chinese community. There is this complex, where they sell almost anything like furniture,handbags, clothing, electrical items, and of course chinese food and groceries. We got ourselves a rice cooker.
Further up the road from this complex are 2 rows of shophouses facing each other, where most chinese restaurants and grocery shops are located. This "chinatown" isn't one of those you see in movies, where they have a big overhead arch welcoming visitors etc, it's a more toned down version. I guess the chinese community in SA is a very small minority here and are being sidelined. Anyhoos, had a huge lunch and bought some vege for cooking over the weekend.
Just to give you an idea of how much things costs here.
2 Liter rice cooker = 350 Rands (130 MYR)
Pair of chopsticks = 2.50 Rands (1 MYR)
Wooden chopping board (just a bit bigger than an A4 sized paper) = 35 Rands (14 MYR)Wooden frying stick for non-stick pan = 10 Rands (4 MYR)
Plastic pail = 45 Rands (18 MYR)
A cauliflower and 4 whole garlic = 20 Rands (8 MYR)
Lunch (1 plate of XO sauce chicken, 1 plate of green vege, 1 plate of charsiew/siewyook, rice and tea for 2) = 153 Rands (61 MYR)
6 (350ml bottles) of Savannah dry (cider drink) = 52 Rands (20 MYR)
A handful of cili padi = 5 Rands (2 MYR)
A 5kg bag of basmati rice = 80 Rands (32 MYR)
Off to the gym now but we will be hanging out tonight in Nelson Mandela square, since it's Easter weekend I hope the coffee joints are open for business.
gosh looks like Malaysia! the pics of the buildings look like some typical neighbourhood in PJ - could be Sunway or somewhere. And the supermarket looks like Giant :p
ReplyDeletehahah, well the only difference is that the security patrol along this street at night are accompanied with firearms, locked and loaded... you should see the size of some of these guns... makes you wonder why are they so paranoid. I was told the chinese businessman here carry stack loads of cash, as if they haven't heard of internet/phone banking...
ReplyDelete