Shopping

[deguspice]

Battambang Market of International Food in Lowell is rather large. It recently moved into a former supermarket store on Church St. It's a bit like Super 88, but with an Vietnamese focus and no food court.

It has lots of shelf space with all sorts of bags, bottles, and cans of interesting stuff (they had four different brands of canned mangosteen). But the freezer section wasn't very impressive. I probably will go back to the Shin Shin market in Lawrence for frozen gyoza.

The music in the store was a bit weird. The guys at the butcher counter had their own music, and then the rest of the store had their own music. So if you stood in the wrong place you might be inundated with two different competing songs. One of the songs was "Itsy Bitsy, Teeny Weeny, Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" song in Vietnamese.


Edit: Fixed song title

Hmm, I wonder if anyone has done this as a filk?
"Wibbly-Wobbly, Timey-Wimey Tardis Police Box Traveler"

Comments

[dancingdeer.livejournal.com]

We discovered that store in its old location some years ago while attending the Lowell Folk Festival, and when we came back a future year and they were gone, figured out where they'd moved to, and have gone back. We like their ready-to-eat food. Yum! And the newer location is huge!

[dhs.livejournal.com]

"Itty Bitty, Polka Dot Bikini" song in Vietnamese.

My brain hurts just thinking about this.

[n5red.livejournal.com]

Thay have mangosteen in a can? They need to let him out!

[quietann.livejournal.com]

Oh. Dear. That image just broke my brain...

[n5red.livejournal.com]

My work here is done.

[c1.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid it's worse than that.
They have *four different brands* of Mangosteen in a can. As if one wasn't already more than necessary.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Hey, excellent! I need to stop by there again sometime.

Thanks for the reminder.

[jostajam.livejournal.com]

ES and YS have made a real effort to reduce the amount of food I brought home. YS pronounces durian flavored wafer cookies to be yummy!

[oneagain.livejournal.com]

You are a silly, silly person.