I was prepared for grocery shopping in a typical neighbourhood supermarket, filled with fight-or-die aunties. I put on my headphones and tuned out into my own world. I got my trolley, with shopping list in hand and embarked on the task ahead.
I couldn’t believe the amount of vegetables I needed:
- English spinach leaves (can’t find English, could only manage local! Do I really need to be this specific?!)
- Iceberg lettuce (I kept staring at what I wrote and I was like “iceberg lettuce?! Wtf is that!” and I saw the sign saying ‘Iceberg Lettuces’ in a basket and I was happy. I found what I needed, I’m not gonna question what it means.)
- Raspberries (CAN’T FIND IN NTUC! UGH!)
- Sage leaves (have no idea how it looks like and after making several rounds in the fresh produce areas, just can’t find! Damnnit)
- Rib-eye cut beef (None of the signs say ‘rib-eye’ so I asked the lady behind the counter and she said cube roll cut is the same. But but, cube roll sounds so… unsophisticated…)
- Prawns (I was staring at the tiger prawns, white prawns and grey prawns. Ok, grey ones are out. Shit, tiger or white… White is fatter and more expensive. Should be better then! So I got the white ones.)
- Scallops (why are they all frozen! Isn’t there fresh scallops?! Damn, I got a frozen pack anyway. S$16! Bah.)
- Mango (There were only five mangoes left and four were green and the only yellow-orange one was bruised as hell. Ugh! Didn’t get it in the end)
You see, if anything goes wrong later, you know I could easily blame any of the above factors. Wahahaha!
And after an hour in the supermarket and more than a hundred bucks later, I just realised I forgot carrots!!! Tian ah!
lena said,
July 18, 2008 @ 6:01 pm
lol! isn’t grocery shopping the most awesomest thing to do!
I LOVEEE ALL THOSE BEAUTIFUL AISLES AND THE DELI COUNTER.
ilikeribena said,
July 18, 2008 @ 7:43 pm
ROFL
my dear woman, next time if u see “raspberries” and “sage leaves” in your recipe, you are better off heading to cold storage to buy your stuff.
man, i love you. you always crack me up.
sa said,
July 19, 2008 @ 4:52 pm
raspberries – can use frozen ones – they thaw out nicely.. (: hee hee. tell us how it went.
debbs said,
July 20, 2008 @ 1:04 pm
you want non-frozen stuff that’s good, you need to go to a proper market! like the wet market kind!! you probably could have found the scallops there.
Jules said,
July 21, 2008 @ 11:52 am
I told you not to challenge yourself too much! hahaha…
ngyilian said,
July 21, 2008 @ 12:49 pm
lena: They’re beautiful to look at but ask me to buy to cook and I’ll be like, “but there’s so many choices! Which one?!” and then I’ll get a headache and get pissed off and don’t think they’re beautiful anymore.
sue: I know… I wanted to go to NTUC to get whichever I can get first since it’s cheaper than Cold Storage but in the end, I got too lazy and decided to just get whatever I can get in NTUC, if not screw it. hahahahaha. I love you too, tech bf!
sa: Ya, I would have gotten frozen raspberries too but can’t find in NTUC! Really!
debbs: That’s what my mum said but I was telling her, i won’t be able to tell the uncles and aunties in Mandarin what kinda vegetables I was looking for. I need the signs to be in English!
jules: hahahahaah! ya lah! you were the most discouraging! hahahaha, damnit you.