Johnnie and I go to the commissary on base for grocery shopping once a week. A commissary is a supermarket on a military base for military personnel and their dependents. It has all of the typical groceries and products that we normally use with only a few exceptions (Coconut Water and Lemon Zest Luna Bars please). However, even the exceptions are easily ordered on the internet – I love technology!
There are two fairly large Korean grocery stores close to our apartment. I love walking through them just to look at everything and usually only pick up a couple things if any. Very few things are in English in these stores. Even “American” products are usually packaged for Korea with Hangul writing. I tend to go by the pictures on the products but still some things are completely unrecognizable.
“Just because everything is different doesn’t mean anything has changed.”
-Irene Peter