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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
Fascinating!!! Mind if I send that link to my home schooled nevvies and nieces?
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Go right ahead!
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"How one grocery shops in Thailand". I have a first cousin in .... well, Ulaanbaatar,Mongolia for a while, Chang Mai, Thailand (your next door neighbor, probably) for a while, and I'm not sure which just now. But I imagine his shopping trips are JUST like this. So maybe I'll send this to my other relatives too, to show them. If I may?
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Of course! Keep in mind that we have typical western-style supermarkets here too. Just as many as you'd find in any city or town in the US, laid out the very same way. One chain specializes in carrying imported foods along with local ones, and there are five branches of that store here, as well as 4 branches of another chain. They've all just started a new concept here with "Express" shops around town; about 3x the size of a convenience store, carrying all the usual staples. The cost of food in the supermarkets is higher than at the 'ta-laht' (local fresh markets,) and higher still at the 'Express' markets. At the other end of the spectrum are these 'fresh markets,' and we have 15-20 of them around Chiang Mai, 3-4 this size and in open-sided covered buildings, and the rest under canvas roofs outside such as the massively huge one I shot in the video called
'Chang Dao Market' which carries not only foods but clothing and household goods too.
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Oh -- Do you KNOW what the watermelon sized fruit at 12:00 minutes is? With yellow flesh? You asked, in the text-over.
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This is called
'Jackfruit.' It's a very common fruit in S.E. Asia, and we see it all the time, football size up to 60-70lbs, even larger than this woman is cutting up. It's a strange fruit in that it grows from or close to the trunk of a tree rather than hanging from the ends of the branches! It's not a very sweet fruit, and quite popular with locals.
Stitchawl