We are spending the New Year in Chongqing. It’s larger than Luzhou and therfore affords us the opportunity to purchase some luxuries that we otherwise forego.
Carrefour the second largest retailer in the world, is successful in China and has numerous stores in the bigger cities. Their stores are massive and stock almost everything. They also have a fairly handy range of imported goods, especially from France their home country. However today, we were most impressed to find French butter in the refrigerated section, as we have looked high and low in Luzhou for butter and haven’t managed to find any, anywhere!
The next logical step was to find some nice jams to complement this creamy unsalted foil wrapped block of pure goodness. So we started on our way to the imported food section, it was tiny! Thankfully they had two imported jams from France made by St Dalfour, a Black Currant and a Golden Peach.
The hunt for some decent bread began, as almost all Chinese baked breads are sweetened with huge amounts of sugar and taste nothing like real bread. And unfortunately due to the yeast added to bread, they also taste nothing like a cake. Suffice to say, it’s terrible tasting stuff.
Success! We found a loaf of proper wholemeal bread, that went wonderfully with our French butter and jams. It was a little slice of paradise to indulge ourselves in the finer things, that one too often takes for granted.
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