Weekly Marketing

As usual, we rode to the supermarket, Co-op Mart, yesterday for our weekly marketing for groceries. Silas' colleague lent him his motorbike, it's very convenient for us to explore the city.

Car Park outside the supermarket

It wasn't easy, now I understand what my Mum has been going through. Indeed, It's not easy to be a housewife, even though I'm only preparing food for the 2 of us. One of the problem is, the vegetables come in big pack and are highly perishable, so I have to sort them into packets and store them well in the fridge to ensure a longer kept period.

Darling gave me a monthly allowance, so we have to weigh what we need vs what we want to make sure we keep to the budget...haha...this is a real challenge to me indeed.

However, marketing is one of the look-forward activities of the week after having stay at home most of the times on weekdays. :) This week, we managed to spend less than S$40, the cheapest thus far. Haha, our monthly budget is bursting anyway...so must save! =)

There's a bookstore besides this supermarket. One of my facourite types of shops. I got a notebook and recipe here (though i can't read Vietnamese, I just look at the pics :->). Many items are sold here, including English storybooks, etc.

There's also a food court in the building. Selling a variety of food, such as 'Cai Fan', noodles, drinks and desserts. You have to queue at a cashier counter to order the exact food you want before you can collect it at the food counter itself.

Weird! So you have to go to the food counter to check out exactly what you want to eat first, then queue at the cashier counter before you return to the food counter to collect. But for us, how do we order at the cashier counter when we don't even know how to say what we want!!! Haha...Silas always got his Vietnamese colleague to order for him in the end.

Most of the times, after our grocery shopping at Co-op Mart, we will ride to the Davi Bakery to buy bread. I usually buy my all-time favourite: Square Bread (like Gardenia), Raisin Bread and Burgers. Total 32,000D (~S$2.70).

Sometimes, we will then stop by the roadside dessert shop. Darling usually goes for a glass of cooling 'cheng tng' while I will attempt to try a different one each time. I had something that looks like our singapore 'bo bo cha cha' that day...but it not only had sago, sweet potatoes and yam, it also had ingredients like tapioca and banana. Banana taste a little sour, overall taste is ok. We merely paid 9000D (~S$0.70) for both. Think my mum will like what I had (but i guess not by the roadside setting) Wonder if she dares to try...kekeke... :)