One of the things I miss about the UK are the supermarkets. Great food, bakery section, they’ll develop your photos whilst you browse through the CDs and load up your trolley with cut price liquor.

It’s a great day out for all the family, and the king of the UK crop is Tesco’s. So imagine my delight when I saw people walking around my neigbourhood with Tesco carrier bags and realised there was one right on my doorstep.

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The sign just inside the door of the place promised I could get what I want. Well I wanted Chicken Kievs, some Wensleydale cheese, Pickled Onion Monster Munch, and a box of Ice Cream Mars Bars.

Amazingly, they had sold out of all of these items. But here’s what they did have:

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Some kind of Jelly made out of grass. The way Emma’s (she’s had it before) eyes shone when she said

“Get some. Go on, I dare you to get some of that and eat it.“

made me realise that it probably wasn’t the nicest thing she’d ever had in her mouth, and I decided not to bother.
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Meat floss. They had a few different kinds, including vitamin-enriched floss for kids.

It looked like good floss, nice and dry, but I’m trying to cut down, so again I didn’t bother.

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Live turtles.

I really, really don’t remember seeing these down at the Bagueley Tesco’s when I was picking up a sandwich for my lunch. They probably keep them in a separate section in the UK, pets instead of food perhaps.

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Although Black Sesame is not my favourite dumpling flavour, it’s nice to see the Tesco Value range popping up in China. From here it can only be a matter of time before cheap Spaghetti hoops and Sausage rolls flood the middle kingdom*.

*That’s China Mum.

Tesco- ZhengNing Lu, near Yan-An Lu (ish)