China #7 -- Ron's

This is a picture of Ron's. Ron's is a store about a 10 minute walk from our friends' home. As you can see, the official name of the store isn't "Ron's". And if you guessed that someone named Ron ever owned the store, you would have guessed wrong. Ron lived in Changchun years ago and was the American who discovered this store that imported American food and gladly sells it to the Americans at a pretty hefty profit. The owner is actually an elderly Chinese man who they call "grandpa" in Chinese.

At this store you can find many of the American foods you miss from back home. And if they don't have it, they will try to special order it for you. But, as I said before, you pay an arm and a leg for anything imported. We must have looked pretty funny taking pictures in the store!

Our friends want their kids to like western food as well as eastern food so that they will eat well when they come back here to the states. So dinners at their home was usually western style food.

With Erin's allergy, packed a suitcase full of "safe" food for her. So we had a whole stash of American food ready to go. Most of what we ate was safe while we were there so we were able to leave a whole bunch of American food behind for our friends to enjoy (without having to spend a ton of money). We enjoyed giving that gift!