2 bags of Bug-liss

After I checked into my dorm room, got settled, and realized that the only thing I had to eat was the 30 Oats & Caramel Fiber One bars that I brought from the U S and A, I decided to head out to the store which is not too far away. Just across the street from the main campus entrance.

It's a grocery store on the 2nd floor and a general goods store on the 3rd floor. I needed about 30 hangers and figured it'd be at least as cheap as Wal-Mart back home, where it's $1.99 for 10 sturdy plastic hangers. Well, not to be. These hangers were like one step up from the throw-away hangers that you get back from the dry cleaners, and they were about $1.50 for 5 of them. What the fuck? Is there a metal shortage in China? Has all the metal/steel gone into new buildings and infrastructure and not enough left over to make hangers? Since I kinda need to hang my clothes, I begrudgingly purchased 20 of them. I know now for sure that this store's motto is not "save money, live better."

Then I went to go look for some push pins b/c I want to hang some shit up on my walls. Since my Chinese sucks, it was pretty difficult trying to describe what a push pin is. I think the store ladies just wanted me to shut up and go away, so they pointed in the general direction of everything. So I bought some hooks instead, not sure if those will work.

Went back down to the food level and went over to the snacks section. In Asia, there's different flavors for Ruffles and Pringles. Like steak or shrimp or seaweed, whatever. But guess what, this store also had about 10 different flavors for Bugles!! Bugles! Those Klan-hood like corn snacks. Holy shit. Or as I like to refer to them as Bug-liss. I don't know why Bug-liss don't sell better in the U S and A, but regardless of that, I picked up 2 bags of Bug-liss. One was steak flavored and the other was either seaweed or sushi flavored. They both tasted exactly the same to me.

So that was my adventure at the store. They also charged 0.30 rmb for each plastic bag, but fortunately I had brought a few recycled bags from back home so in the future, I will be rocking the Wal-Mart recyclable bags in Shanghai.