牛奶

Milk, that's what the above title reads, or more accurately 'Cow Milk'.

When we first arrived here we didn't notice any milk in the supermarket but we were told that it's in the main aisles next to the juices and other items. It's a little strange to see milk not being refrigerated, but we realize that we only think that because we live in North America, as Nancy reminded us when we questioned buying warm eggs....

So the milk is all pasteurized, homogenized, and irradiated and lasts close to forever, you just put it in the fridge when you are ready to drink it. It taste's close to what we are used to, but not that good. We now only have milk for Tina to use in our instant coffee.

I was talking about milk to a girl at work, and she told me that there are places that have real milk, straight from a cow in glass bottles that you usually buy on the street, but that there are also places that have real milk in the cooler section.

Tina learnt the same thing from classmates, and we hunted down this elusive cold milk. It was better, still not the same as home, but closer. You could buy them in 1 liter cartons and their shelf life dropped down to 5 days.

But suddenly it's hard to find, and we are thinking that there must be a cow strike. Tina asks at school and is told that sometimes the stores will be empty for 3-4 weeks. To the point where people told her that there are times they've frozen milk just to avoid shortages...

Well, now Tina finds a box of milk the other day and came home happy.
This morning she finds out that the above pictured carton is not milk, but yogurt. I do like their slogan of "Fresh and Delicious tasted as the first love", as it seems somewhat risque. Now we realize that the "Active" in front of the milk should have alerted us to it being different. Alas, again no milk..

Today Tina found two small juice boxes of milk, let the hoarding begin....