Groceries

I thought it would be interesting for all of you to read about the groceries. No! Japanese do not sell only rice and sushi. There is a big range of western-syle food, many French bakeries in supermarkets and at a train stations, and a lot of western sweets. The are certain differences. For example, they sell yoghurt plain, without any fruits or other additives. The sizes of all that you buy are two times smaller than the ones we're used to in Europe. The biggest chocolate you could buy in a nearest store would weigh arround 100 grams, bread is sold in a packages with 6 realy large slices, müesli is in a package of 425 grams.

The only thing they sell in a realy large package, is rice. Rice is usually sold in 2-3 kilo packages, and would cost around 2000 yen, which is realy expensive, compared to Europe.

The least thing, I expected, is that Japan has a realy small variety of fruits. The most of them are a lot bigger, then we're used to, and also a lot more expensive. I put a phone besides those two, so you could see, how big they actually are.

So, this one apple costs 100 yen, and the other fruit (I have no idea, what it is. It has a shape of peach, the texture of a pear, and it tastes like pear and orange combined.) was 150 yen. And they were discounted. Usually, the yellow fruit costs about 300 yen.

On the other hand, there are a lot of vegetables. I have never seen so many different kinds of mushrooms in a supermarket! All vegetables are cheaper then in Europe, and there's much more to choose from.