Doing our shopping has continued to get more and more interesting as I learn more about Dhaka. For instance, last year we rarely used the market closest to Dad's school because it is a little farther away from home than a few others. However, we've learned slowly that it is a great place to get almost anything we need, kind of like having Target here in Dhaka. (Did I tell you how much fun I had shopping at Target and Wal Mart this summer? There are entire aisles of different kinds of cereal and balls in every size I could imagine!) When we go to the Gulshan 1 Market here, we first pass the fresh flower department, and are soon in the plastic fruits and flower area.
Depending on the gate we choose to get into the covered part of the market, we end up in either produce, cleaning products, tailoring or furniture on the first floor. If we take the stairs to the second floor, we find all kinds of wholesalers with closet-sized stalls stocked with things like fake Hershey's cocoa, sesame oil and toothpaste tubes labeled in Arabic.
Back on the first floor, once we pass the shrink wrapped furniture, we enter the cleaning supplies that lead to the fresh fruit sections. This man was eager to sell us more tupperware.
What we were after that day was mostly at our favorite vegetable stall, though. The man here sits on top of his vegetable pyramid and rattles off prices while his employees weigh everything out in kilograms and try to upsell tomatoes and pumpkins.
For 260 taka, about $3.50 US, we took home Chinese cabbage, broccoli, beets, zucchini, lemons, cucumbers and clementines. Mom's only convinced me to eat the clementines so far, but I do like the colors while we're out shopping and she's washing and soaking them in purified water.
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