With Chinese New Year at the
end of the week the resident teaching assistant’s task today was to procure
rice, noodles and chopsticks for the class, and the resident teaching assistant’s
husband’s task was to drive her around Middlesbrough in a fruitless search for
a Chinese supermarket before in desperation ending up at the European Food
Store in Stockton, which maintained its strict geographic identity by not
stocking even Asian staples, reserving its limited shelf space for Polish and
other East European delicacies (I guess an ex-patriot Pole’s reaction to
finding potato flour is similar to mine when I find Yorkshire Tea or digestive
biscuits when holidaying in France); it seemed disrespectful to exit without
purchasing anything so I settled for some look-alike Waggon Wheels (that turned
out to be Turkish and not that delightful) then we went down the road to Aldi
for the rice and noodles – shame about the chopsticks.
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