Thursday 3 October 2013

Common Sights


Delivery bikes for restaurants; food delivery is very common and cheap here.  I've seen soups delivered still boiling.  The food is usually delivered in metal, plastic, or ceramic dishes that the drivers later return to collect.  The minimum price for delivery is often only $10-15, and the fee is very small, maybe less than $1 per individual order.  (I honestly don't know how they make a living, other than many of the delivery places are family-run restaurants.)



Where I live cell phone shops used to be the most common; these days that top spot has been replaced by coffee shops (I would guess that within 5 minutes walking of where I live I could go to 15 different coffee shops).  As you can see, this cell phone place has resorted to offering a chance to win prizes (CD players!  Bikes!).

 This tiny shop, usually called a "mart" (as in Wal-mart and K-mart), has a sign out front saying "super", as in "supermarket".  It is a very small convenience store.  Convenience stores maybe rival cell phone stores for the #2 spot (yes, 7-eleven is here).


Lotteria is a popular version of fast food, aka the Korean McDonalds, but, personally, I think much of their food is not good (I'm being nice).  That's due in part because they make a lot of the hamburgers ahead of time and stack them up on a shelf.  They do have decent chicken strips (cooked on-the-spot) and fries (if you can get them hot).

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