Shopping for groceries

Shopping for anything sure is expensive in Korea. Since we planned to cook this weekend, we went out to "hunt" for some groceries, such as onions. At first, we planned to go to Homeplus (Tesco). However, on the way there, we found a place which looks like the wet market in Malaysia, selling vegetables and fruits, with small shops at each side selling various things, such as shoes, hats and umbrellas. Most of the small stalls are selling the same things, such as potatoes, mushrooms, carrots and onions. Bargaining sure is tough as we cannot speak well in Korean. What we can do was, taken out a calculator and bargained the price using it ^^

It once happened that one of the hawkers mistaken us as Indonesians O_O Then, we said "No! No!". Then, he thought that we are Filipinos. We couldn’t help laughing. However, they were very friendly; the aunty selling some hawker food beside even gave us another “kuih” for free when we bought a “kuih” from her stall. Although it’s different, the “kuih” was made of flour, almost similar to the “cucuk udang” that we have in Malaysia. However, it does not have prawns in it. The other “kuih” that she gave us has a donut with sugar like texture, but has red bean sauce filling in side. Even though red bean sauce is not to my liking, the “kuih” tasted quite nice.

Everything in Korea sure is expensive, especially meat. 1 carrot cost about 500 won, which is about RM2. An egg here cost about 60 cents. The price is almost the same for each stall. However, some of goods selling are fresh than others. We bought some fruits on the way back for 3,000 won. It’s yellow in color (picture uploaded before), medium size and tasted almost like honey dew, but not so sweet and a bit crunchier. Banana and jagung in Korea is very expensive.

After a few days, we went to Hanaro, a minimart nearby to complete the ingredients for our meals this weekend. We found that some of the items are actually cheaper if we get from the minimart, rather than the market.

p/s: there’s hardly any chocolate milk around in Korea. They prefer coffee, cappuccino and tea over chocolate milk. There are many varieties of nice of coffee here in Korea. Even though I am not a coffee lover, I begin to have a liking for coffee.