Depressingly, there are several giant Tesco stores in KL. They look similar enough to UK stores, although their everyday products make ours look a tad dull.
But I haven’t come all this way to shop at Tesco, so I looked elsewhere.
There is a giant shoppping mall – fourth largest in the world, actually – within walking distance of my new condo and it has two supermarkets, so I decided to give them a try.
The first one, Aeon, has a baffling layout. Some aisles have what I would consider to be sensible combinations of products.
Whilst others are frankly bizarre
or lead to unfortunate associations in the mind of the shopper
It certainly worked in my case, and I went scurrying off towards the relative safety of the bakery department –
– Irish Patisserie??
Supermarket number two is the rather unattractively named Cold Storage. I left it until last because it sounded like a Malaysian version of Iceland, but how wrong I was …
It’s not totally Waitrose, but then again, I haven’t come all this way to shop at Waitrose either. So I skipped home happily with my tea and marmalade plus some coconut buns and Uncle Saba’s Lentil crisps, and felt that I had the best of both worlds.