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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: Western foods/products you don't have to go to a fancy import store to buy?
It's probably no secret that you don't have to go to a fancy import grocery store to buy decent peanut butter (Skippy gets the job done pretty well), and the other day I bought pecans at a Chinese dry goods market to make pecan pie for about half of what I saw for it at City Shop in Beijing (although still kind of expensive). Anybody else know of any decent Western foods/products (or reasonable substitutes for them) that are carried in most Chinese supermarkets?
Mayonnaise, canned fruit, flour, sugar, water and crisps and chocolate.
I live in Shenzhen so I just cross the border into Hong Kong to buy "Western" products and the choice there is wider and at a much cheaper price
western beers are available everywhere (although many are produced in China)
Oreos, lays, chips ahoy, heinz ketchup, knorr soup, baked beans, bacon, sausages, bread (non sweet & multi grain), butter, milk. It just depends what supermarket you go to! Most of these things aren't even in the import section!
in my wonderful Chinese town , of a mere 7 million ..in the area ... maybe 300,000 in xiashan ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, I can get pretty much everything you can get in downtown Houston or Regina .....just a matter of paying a stupid price for something you don't really need or not.
If there are any of the major supermarket chains in the city where you live, chances are that it will have at least one aisle dry and canned goods. Additionally, the dairy section might carry imported dairy items and the candy section for sure will carry imported candy.