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Celeste · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2003 11:42 am Post subject:

I live in a town that has COSTCO! (I go every other week and strap it all to my bike with bungee cords.) My husband and I can understand the cheese frenzy that would cause one to order it 10kgs at a time!

Gordon · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 5309 Location: Japan

COSTCO.

I'm jealous, but now I just ordered from them. I'd be in Costco weekly just for the cereal.

Phil_b · Joined: 14 Oct 2003 Posts: 239 Location: Back in London

Kurochan · Joined: 01 Mar 2003 Posts: 944 Location: China

Anybody looking for mayonnaise in China should keep their eyes peeled for the Kewpie brand, which I think comes from either Indonesia or Malaysia. It does have a picture of a kewpie doll on the front, and comes in this weird squeezy-tube. If you have Renrenle stores or Carrefour stores, have a look for mayonnaise there too.

Renrenle and Park'n'Shops are also good places to look for tampons, which are really rare here. Some stores do carry OB's, and a new thing I discovered when I bought my latest package is that now they include little "finger cot" things in the package.

Just a guy · Joined: 06 Oct 2003 Posts: 267 Location: Guangxi

I think we have another acronym for the glossary list�. OB

& what is Blu Tac.. Question

foster · Joined: 07 Feb 2003 Posts: 485 Location: Honkers, SARS

Blue Tac is wonderful sticky blue stuff that you affix to the back of a poster or picture and to the wall. Works really well with photos and paper objects, but nothing bigger.

Despite Hong Kong being a SAR of CHina...I can find pretty much everything here that I couldn't find in Japan. That said, I found much better cheese in Japan than here...at Yamaya in the OCAT building in Osaka, they sell American brand cheese (marble, swiss, monterey jack, extra sharp) 3 blocks (300g) for 1000Yen. Very Happy

denise · Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 3419 Location: finally home-ish

Celeste · Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2003 12:55 am Post subject:

OB stands for obstetrician/gynecologist (this brand of tampon was apparently designed by a female OB/GYN but the whole acronym would probably make people think of the doctor's office too much)

Guest · Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 1:30 am Post subject:

I live in a small City and you cannot buy deodorant here. I told some friends that and now I have heaps of the stuff. I have not tried to buy a can opener but it sure can be frustrating looking for things. The other day I bought what looked like sugar but MSG looks like sugar also and there was nobody around to ask. I got lucky that time.

As you do not buy eggs by the dozen here - they weigh them - I teld up my hands and asked for 10 eggs and ended up with 10 yuan of eggs - about 30!! It is those things that I find really amusing.

The worst thing for me is the lack of anything English to read. I really miss my crossword puzzles and magazines that I used to get weekly in Australia. There is a good site for a sort of crossword puzzle nd that is:

www.wordsurfing.co.uk

Bye

Brooks · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 1369 Location: Sagamihara

Kewpie comes from Japan.
Whether it is made in SE Asia, I can`t say