Tesco Homeplus

Back in the Malaysia we had a weekly routine of going to the local Tesco for groceries, and when we found out one of our closest supermarkets here was Homeplus Tesco, it looked like little would change. But what actually happened was different; we ended up only going once a month at the most, buying what we needed on a day-to-day basis from local stores and street markets. Korea can be wonderfully convenient in that way. Recently we discovered a smaller sized supermarket nearby call Family-Mart and the last couple of times did our more substatial shopping there.



We headed off to find Tesco Home Plus yesterday in order to scout out some cheap food from what is our regular Malaysia supermarket. This involved my second bus journey since arriving in Korea. I was not entirely surprised when a bus with about twenty five seats filled up with around sixty people, most of whom were reduced to standing two abreast in the isle. Our driver had clearly missed his calling, because his style of driving was the binary full brake/full accelerator combination which I've come to associate with almost all taxi drivers here. At last, we came back from Tesco Home Plus by taxi, but frankly, it's hard to say which was the more frightening exprience.