Walmart vs. “Asian” supermarket

The Supercenter Walmarts are big, open 24 hrs a day, and are great places to hang out in small, boring US towns. I can’t satisfy my macapuno ice cream fix there but I do get good deals on toilet paper and neck bones.

But “Asian” supermarkets have a wider variety of seafood and most offer to fry fish whole so you don’t have to stink up your roommate’s mom’s house. Most importantly they have life-sustaining products such as, but not limited to: milkfish, banana leaves, Pocky’s, and calamansi juice. You’re lucky if your Walmart has at least one of these, but the Superking, Manila Oriental, or the Seafood City down the block will have all of these plus plastic bags with cool designs on them. Also, some of the pinays that work the registers at Seafood City are nice. Too bad their uncles work there too because they’re big and carry price guns and box cutters. Always avoid eye contact when they bag your tilapia filets and stare at you.