The Divine Wind Vault: Reverse Culture Shock- First Time Grocery Shopping

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Reverse Culture Shock- First Time Grocery Shopping

Written on August 7th, 2007

The other day, we went grocery shopping for the first time in the US. Although we have been back home for just over three weeks, we have been spending most of our meals around my parent's dinner table. It was good to finally get to the grocery store and get some food that we like while we house-sit at my sister's place.

While this grocery store, Ingle's, caters to the average American, we found the product, Shirataki noodles. Shirataki is the konyaku (vegetable with no taste and also available in a jello in Japan). Also, we were surprised to see the amount of chicken breast available. In Japan, chicken breast was rare and the kind of chicken that we ended up eating was chicken thigh. The boneless and skinless chicken breast looked appealing but held off on it for now.

Tomorrow, Van Halen tickets go on sale for the Charlotte, NC show which

happens to be the first show of this reunion tour. While I wait on hold to buy tickets, my wife will be behind the wheel of a rental van as we drive down to Atlanta to pick-up my in-laws who are traveling from Saga-ken, Japan. They are traveling from Saga-ken to Fukuoka in Kyushu by car and then flying from Fukuoka Airport (an old military air base) to Narita International Airport. Then they will fly the US carrier, Delta all the way to Atlanta where we will meet them and then return to Greenville.