Grocery Shopping in Beijing, It's a Good Deal

Today is Saturday and we had a mission!!! I bought a pair of boots three weeks ago and every time I've worn them I come home with another button missing! So, let's go back to Ya Show where we bought them (for next to nothing) and see how this complaint works out for us! Success!!! The sales girl right away recognized us and said, "Oh your son from New York, buy shoe here, these ones" (and yes she said "shoe" not shoes!)and pointed to the exact pair that Matt had bought over a month ago! Then she looks at my boots and said "I get repaired you come back tomorrow at 3 o'clock and pick up!"

Now David wants a Chinese hat to keep his head warm, OMG! For those of you familiar with his Canadian tuk, this is worse! Big, furry and had a big Chinese red star on the front!



So that much of our shopping done we head to Luga's for margaritas and guacomole. They prepare this fresh right at your table. Well Thunder had talked about lost in translation often, well it happened again! We ordered a pitcher of margaritas and instead got two peach margaritas. Aparrently pitcher and peach sound the same here! Oh well, they were good!

Now off to the markets for the groceries! Here is what we bought:
Kleenex 3 pack (yes real Kleenex, but no Puffs)
edamame, two bunches of asparagus, 3 onions, 2 potatoes, 5 packages of chicken wings, a nice steak, a half pound each of ground pork and beef, mayo, hot pickles, tobasco sauce, real lemon juice, 12 limes, 3 lemons! We always go to the same lady at the market and she always throws in extras goodies for us. Today we scored parsley, cilantro, garlic, green onions and ginger! Our total bill for all the above was $52.35 US dollars! It was a very good deal!