To (Super)market! in Hue

Visiting the local supermarket is always one of the highlights of any trip I do.  Anywhere in the world I go, I must visit a supermarket if available.

On the way in from the airport to the center of Hue, Vietnam, we passed by this “supercenter”.

Big C is Vietnam’s choice of hypermarket.

I later found out that this was within a walking distance from my hotel.  So off I went on my final day in Hue.

 

It’s big but not that huge with a food court and a game arcade at the top and you can work your way down to electronic appliances and household goods and further down to food products – my main interest.

Something I saw in home appliances. Yes, if you brand it Tokyo – Japan, it must be Japanese. Somehow the Japanese text on the side tells me it must be not.

And before you go in in the electronics section, they zip up your bag.

 

Going down to the food section, you can pick up a bag or two of potato chips.

Sausages, I think.

I had no idea the Vietnamese ate so many different kinds of Chinese buns.

Never seen green ones in Japan.

Wow, these are fresh…

Packed lunches.

And packed frogs…

Pickles.

Aloe vera. I saw a lady in one of the traditional markets peeling this and getting the extracts out. I thought it was for skin use but she told me it was for eating.

Vietnamese herbs are wonderful.

So many fish sauces.

Well, that was fun.  I shopped for some sweets to take home as gifts.