Walmart, Chinese style!

It seems like every Chinese adoption blog has at least one post about Walmart. Here's mine. We went to one of 3 Walmarts in Chongqing Wednesday morning. It was an experience. As you would expect, there are many similarities between our US Walmarts and the Chinese Walmarts. There are also many differences.

The biggest difference is in the meat section of the Super Walmart we went to. As you can see from the photos, you can buy squid, duck, and many other delicacies we didn't partake in. They also had something called a flying pancake. It's a dough-like thing that a person behind the counter stretches into a square sort of like pizza dough, but very very thin pizza dough. Once it's stretched to about a 12 to 16 inch square, filling is put on top. There are different types of fillings that are used, we saw a vegetable filling in one and a pineapple filling in another. Then the flying pancake is closed and fried. I didn't see if it was deep fried or pan fried, but it is definitely fried. One of our families bought a pineapple one and gave all of us a taste. I didn't try it, as I don't like pineapple, but DH and Dad did. They both thought it was tasty. I think if we have an opportunity to try it again with some other filling, I definitely will! Here are a few photos of Walmart. I should mention that we were told later by our guide, Alison, that Walmart doesn't like photos taken in their store. Apparently they are afraid of competition seeing them. Dad was never told he couldn't take them, although he was given a dirty look by one guy. It didn't stop Dad though. You should also know they didn't take our Mastercard, so we paid with yuan.