Seat of Our Pants

Grocery shopping may seem like a no-brainer but we’ve spent the last two days figuring out how the food store system works here. Fortunately our landlord was nice enough to have stocked our fridge with a few necessities, which got us through the worst of the confused time. We’ve learned some, but I’ve gotta admit – we’re still not savvy shoppers. Not by a long shot.

It seems the products we buy are dispersed between three different stores. One shop sells only fruit, another only vegetables. There is a rare hybrid of the two which sells both, but we’ve only found one and haven’t been able to find it again (the streets are narrow and maze-like around here!). The third shop is larger and sells all things that are not fruits or vegetables.

Kathmandu general store

Meat is a whole other story. It’s sold from a garage door type store (one minute its a wall with a door then the door lifts up and viola! its a store). Refrigeration, though available, doesn’t seem to be used. Why keep meat chilled, really? Bleh. You get the picture. You now also know why we’ve opted to be vegetarian while we’re here. Neither of us can stomach buying the meat, let alone eating it.

Kathmandu meat store - if you look closely, you'll see they offer goat's head

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