GBP Chapter 165 Shopping in the Supermarket
Chapter 165 Shopping in the Supermarket
After Miler handed Lei Jun the map showing the route from her house to the suburbs, Lei Jun nodded to Yufei and then led all the other soldiers except Yufei and Li Lanjuan out.
After watching Lei Jun and the others leave, Yufei began preparing as well. Using Li Lanjuan's backpack, she took out more than twenty lemons and three large bottles of honey.
"Milo, do you have any large jars or buckets here? We'll use them to make lemon honey water." Yufei looked around; the most important thing about drinks is having equipment to hold them.
"Yes!" Miler quickly ran to her shack and brought out a plastic bottle slightly shorter than herself, about 10 liters in size.
"Perfect, I can make drinks for them," Yufei said, looking at the plastic bottle and asking Miler.
"Milo~ Does your city have disposable cups? That would be convenient for customers to carry around."
Yes, we do! But you have to buy it at the supermarket.
"That's great! Oh, by the way, do you also have any disposable lunch boxes for takeout?"
"They have everything, Sister Yufei, how much do you need? There's a medium-sized supermarket not far from my house, I'll go buy it!" With that, Miler got up and headed to the supermarket.
"Wait! Let's go together~ That way we can come back together, and I'll teach you how to make lemon honey water."
Yufei was also quite curious about what supermarkets in this world looked like and what they sold. Since this world didn't have spicy food, how many delicious dishes would be missing?
Moreover, watching Miler eat spicy and sour chicken giblets and scrambled eggs with tomatoes, Yufei suspected that people in this world not only didn't know the taste of spiciness, but might not even know what sourness was.
Yufei guessed that their dishes were probably very bland, meaning they didn't have any strong flavors, just sweet, sour, bitter, or spicy! Yufei already knew of at least two of those flavors!
Yufei was very curious about what their food was like, and thought it would be a good opportunity to go to the supermarket and see for herself.
Miler gave her 240 yuan, and Yufei gave Lei Jun and the others 40 yuan, telling them to go "wander" outside for two or three hours and then come back.
She has 200 yuan left, plus the money she would have spent on disposable blankets, bowls and chopsticks, which should be enough for her to buy something to eat, right?
Yufei suggested going to the supermarket with Mile, and Mile was overjoyed and certainly wouldn't refuse.
She skipped and hopped ahead, humming a song, stopping every now and then to remind Yufei and the others of the directions; the supermarket was indeed quite close to them.
It took about five minutes to get there. The supermarket has two floors, each about 500 to 600 square meters.
The first floor is mostly for selling furniture, appliances, and household goods. Yufei noticed that their refrigerators and storage cabinets were much larger than those in the large building.
"Wow, this refrigerator is huge! Won't it be a waste to put so much stuff in it?"
"Of course not, this refrigerator is dual-purpose; one side holds our food, and the other side holds our battle pets' food," Miler replied.
Yufei immediately understood why there were so many large items; many of them were prepared for battle pets.
They even saw all sorts of strange clothes in the clothing section, which Yufei guessed were also for her battle pets.
Miler led them to the residential area, where they quickly bought what they needed. Miler then prepared to take them to the checkout to go home.
Miler didn't want to shop around in the supermarket for too long, afraid that she might lose her temper and spend all the money in her wallet.
But Yufei's purpose in coming here was to shop at the supermarket, so Yufei and Miler told them not to rush, they would browse around, and that lemon honey water was easy to make.
They finished browsing the first floor, which, apart from having many more items needed for battle pets, was not much different from the supermarkets on Blue Star; it was like a combination of a pet store and a part of a supermarket.
Finding nothing edible on this floor, they went up to the second floor, which, just as Yufei had expected, was a food area.
The food area is divided into two parts: one part is for buying fresh ingredients, just like the vegetable market in Daxia.
But the things they bought were things Yufei had never seen before; thinking of the elephant-trunk rabbit, Miler said it was called "Pu".
Yufei didn't ask why the creature was called "Pu," because she had already heard it make several "Pu! Pu" sounds.
Miler said the meat on this pom-pom was very tender, mostly meat with a small skeleton. After processing it, they pan-fried it whole on a stone slab.
Just thinking about adding a little salt and cocoa juice made Miler's mouth water.
The texture was soft and smooth, with a unique aroma that brought a sense of happiness; it was truly a top-quality ingredient from their region.
The price was also very high, beyond the reach of ordinary people. Miler only managed to get a meal there by chance, by going with a friend she knew.
This supermarket must have invested a lot of money to have several live poultry, making it a signature ingredient.
Aside from the seafood section, there were no other live animals to be seen. Only in the meat section were pre-processed meats available for sale.
Miler said that they mainly eat mushili, and the meat in mushili weighs between 400 and 800 jin (approximately 200-400 kg).
While it doesn't have the exceptionally tender and naturally fragrant "poof" meat, it doesn't have any other strange gamey smell, and the meat is firm.
It can replenish most of the energy needed by the human body, but Mshiri is too ugly. What people see are the decomposed flesh of Mshiri, in case people can't stomach it.
This piqued Yufei's curiosity again. Just how ugly was this Musili that people couldn't eat when they saw it?
Miler only gave a brief description, saying it had a round face covered with all sorts of eyes, and looking into its eyes was enough to give you the creeps.
Just imagining what Msil looked like made Miler's hair stand on end, and she absolutely refused to recall what Msil looked like, continuing to describe him to Yufei.
They also frequently eat the meat of another animal called the tapir, which is covered in sword-like thorns—not sharp spikes, but the kind of thorns found on triangular pyramidal swords.
This creature requires exceptional knife skills to prepare it attractively, and it also needs special treatment to prevent it from having a strong, fishy smell.
If prepared properly, its meat will become just as delicious as pomfret, and can be eaten raw with a sauce made from cocoa pods, red leaf puree, and bacon sauce.
It has a rich flavor, delicate texture, and a slightly sweet aftertaste; it's especially delicious.
In addition, the sword tapir is large in size and has a lot of meat to eat, making it the most consumed type of meat in households besides the mushili.
Besides these two types of meat, there is another bird similar to the Daxia chicken; the meat of this animal is mainly used for making soup.
Next is the seafood section, where most of the fish are divided into two categories: one with a small head and a large body.
Miler said that this type of fish only eats the body parts, and their fish is mostly eaten raw. Another type is the bighead fish, which has a very large head with several fleshy protrusions on its head.
This type of fish is also used for making soup. It can also be used to make a rich broth with that kind of bird, which is especially delicious with noodles.