Day 5 in Xiamen - buying poultry, eggs, and fish

Whoo hoo -- It's Kynza's first day of school! Both Christine and I walk her to the bus stop -- a good 15 minute walk from the house. It's a school bus, with a bus monitor and assigned seats. It stops just where we thought it would stop, and she's off to a new world at Xiamen International Academy!

From the bus stop, I go off to the mall to see what I can uncover in the grocery store! Chicken legs, of course! Just over $1 a pound.... Or, for the same price, you can get chicken feet.

 

Buying eggs is a whole new experience. You get to choose! But apparently not all eggs are good eggs. Like this young woman, everyone shakes them, and then decides whether to put the egg in their bag or put it back in the pile. Most get put back in the pile. Some people hold them up to their ear when they shake them to listen for I don't know what. We're a bit afraid to buy eggs because we don't know what makes one good. We did buy some, made an omelet, and lived to tell the tale. But who knows...

The fish section was definitely my favorite. I was innocently standing in the aisle looking at these piles of fish. Watch this video to see what happened! It was most hilarious. He was killing the fish, who were flopping all over the floor, and then he went and gathered them all in a bag.