(Catching up . . . )
Today we went to the fabric store. It was five stories high! Kamini was not satisfied with our skirts, and still had to buy shirts for the men for the big birthday bash. We were able to find about 8 Hawaiian style prints. We bought some for everyone and we plan to return the skirts. Also bought some very nice uniform material for Abi for school next year. Each pinafore and shirt set will be around $12 including the cost to stitch them. I also bought some nice fabric to make the girls sleeveless dresses for summer. The material and stitching costs for both dresses comes to a little over $10.
After that we went to a store that sells a lot of imported food products. I saw some other Caucasian people there but only one was probably American. One spoke fluent Tamil. They had some locally produced name brands for reasonable prices. The imported stuff, though, was just outrageous! For example, a box of Cheerios was $11. A container of Gerber Puffs baby snack was $8. A bottle of Pediasure was $6. I was able to buy two boxes of Kellog’s Corn Flakes (mango flavor and honey flavor, locally produced), two packs of instant noodles, four packs of instant coffee drink, a pack of gum, two cookies, and a quart of Silk brand soy milk for around $9. Not bad. The store also had stuff like Pop Tarts, Trix cereals, Coke (with an Arabic label, 75 cents per can), Old El Paso, Hunt’s barbeque sauce, Nestle Quick, and even several varieties of Starbucks coffee beans. If you look at the photo of the box of mango Corn Flakes, you’ll see a square with a green dot at the top of the box. That means it’s true vegetarian. Much of the population is vegetarian so this is important. The “Iron Shakti” is uniquely Indian. Shakti means "cosmic power" more or less.
After that we went to a store that sells a lot of imported food products. I saw some other Caucasian people there but only one was probably American. One spoke fluent Tamil. They had some locally produced name brands for reasonable prices. The imported stuff, though, was just outrageous! For example, a box of Cheerios was $11. A container of Gerber Puffs baby snack was $8. A bottle of Pediasure was $6. I was able to buy two boxes of Kellog’s Corn Flakes (mango flavor and honey flavor, locally produced), two packs of instant noodles, four packs of instant coffee drink, a pack of gum, two cookies, and a quart of Silk brand soy milk for around $9. Not bad. The store also had stuff like Pop Tarts, Trix cereals, Coke (with an Arabic label, 75 cents per can), Old El Paso, Hunt’s barbeque sauce, Nestle Quick, and even several varieties of Starbucks coffee beans. If you look at the photo of the box of mango Corn Flakes, you’ll see a square with a green dot at the top of the box. That means it’s true vegetarian. Much of the population is vegetarian so this is important. The “Iron Shakti” is uniquely Indian. Shakti means "cosmic power" more or less.
1 comment:
Mango cornflakes sound really, really good. I would loooove to spend an afternoon in a 5 story fabric store!
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