Seafood city

Last Sunday I went to Seafood City in Chula Vista to get some snacks. These bags of shrimp chips were 3 for .99. I opened one on the way home, so it's not pictured (it was the plain shrimp flavor).
Got some cracker nut snacks for Bert.These also come in plain, adobo, and garlic flavors. I like these because there is a thick, crunchy coating but they tend to be really salty. Good pulutan if you're drinking beers.

I ran out of oyster sauce so I needed a new bottle. I have no brand loyalty. I got this one because it was on sale. I use this sauce when stir frying baby bok choy.

My old standby powdered mix for afritada and menudo (Filipino style, not Mexican style). There's this brand and Knorr's.

I was planning to make halo halo this week (but ending up not doing so - didn't get the Magnolia ube ice cream and Carnation evaporated milk that day). Sometimes I buy red azuki beans but this trip I didn't. I just got macapuno strings (great eaten out of the jar!), green kaong (palm nuts - they also come in red), and nata de coco.

These lychees & langka (jackfruit) were also for the halo-halo. TC likes to eat these plain.

I bought an assortment of spicy sardines. They were out of the brand I normally buy (Ligo).

The "new" Mama Sita's packaging (compare to the earlier photo). This is powdered mix for guava sinigang. My mom hates that I use this because she prefers using the guavas from her trees. I'm lazy like that. Bert doesn't like the guava flavor, preferring instead, the tamarind sinigang mix.

Here's one of those shrimp chips. I could eat a whole bag of those!

Not pictured: my box of Skyflakes crackers and Japanese style steamed fish cake (for future pancit bihon).

These snacks (excluding soup mix) should for a while. The one thing about the Chula Vista location of Seafood City is that their checkout aisles are too damn narrow. You can't push your cart through there. Then, there's lazy a-holes who leave their cart in front of you while you're still in line, blocking your way. Inconsiderate fkrs! How hard is it to push the cart a few feet to the cart return?

Anyhow, the Filipina checkers are so rude there and sometimes I think they're ruder to me because I don't speak the language. They never greet you or say thank you, or count out your change properly. Oh yeah, since you can't push your cart through, a bagger is supposed to put your groceries in a cart waiting at the end of the checkout stand. Sometimes no carts are available and you have to wait (this is a pain especially if you have more than 2 bags of groceries to carry out). I like going to the Seafood City in National City. Even though it's always crowded, you CAN push your cart through the checkout aisle!