Her
brother called and came over at 10am to drive to Costco, the only Costco in
Taiwan, I think. Membership is 1200NT ($41us) a year and they won’t let you in
to look around without a membership card. We spent about 11,000NT ($379us) on
all kinds of imported food; when Leona shows me the itemized receipt, I’ll copy
it here. The store, big but not quite as big as stateside Costco’s, is on the
other side of town in Taichung’s south-west district. I was joking that we
would only go there once a year but that is not too far from the truth. Most
importantly, they have meaty cat food (all the cat food in local stores is
fishy) and they have Scoop Away litter, not found anywhere else we’ve looked in
Taichung or Taipei, for a lower price than the Japanese litter we’ve been
using. In fact, it is lower in price here than it is at BJ’s big box store in
Brooklyn! I think we got bargains in items I’ve been looking to get, like an
88% lean ground Australian grain-fed beef for 614NT ($21.50us) for
2.28kg.(5lb.) so it cost $4.30lb.US) Here are some other items we bought, their
price in NT/us and amounts:
l I Mei
English Muffins 89NT ($3.06us) for 12 muffins (25 cents a muffin)
l Twinings
English Breakfast Teabags 699NT ($24us) for 100 bags (24 cents a bag)
l Swiss
Miss Hot Cocoa 249NT ($8.58us) for 60 envelopes (14 cents an envelope)
l Scoop
Away cat litter 549NT ($18.93us) for 42lbs.
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