The small Asian market in Durham

When I first came to Chapel Hill five years ago, the seniors brought me to the small grocery store in Durham.
They told me I can buy the majority of the necessities for Asian dishes here.
If I want to buy more varieties of cookies or snacks, I can go to Grand Asian market, where they also provid the very delicious buns and hot meals.
The buns, Taiwanese bread, and hot dishes are the major inducement for me to drive ~40 mins to Raleigh once a month.
Although there is another Korean market nearby small Asian market, the price is really not friendly to students. That's the reason the small Asian market can happily survive for so many years because we need it.

Now nearby the small Asian market, there is a newly open Asian market occupied the location of previous bankrupt Circuit City.
You can imagine how big this grocery store is.
I won't say anything bad about this new grocery store since it just started its business. A lot of hardware and software of the grocery store needs to be improved.
But the existence of this market already crashes the business of small Asian market.
Of course this also depends on if the new Asian market can improve its service in the future.

But today when I went to the small Asian market (because my friend wants the German bread, which is provided next to the market), the cashier seems desperate.
They were chatting about buying the lottery in the hope of getting the prize since they envision that they might be out of business soon.
(But they also try to give more discounts to survive, which is good to customers.)

This reminds me the scene in the movie (You've got mail), where the local bookstore was forced to close when the enterprise bookstore (I don't remember the name but something similar to Borders) entered the business.
(However, the Borders in Durham is also going to close probably because the competition with the internet bookstore like Amazon)

I wonder the consequence since both of them have things to improve. But I am glad I can buy things with 10% discount and 20% discount next time (this month, hopefully longer time) and without the obnoxious smell in the new Asian market.

Special and precious dishes

Very delicious.

• Salad

Cucumber + Tomato + Olive oil + salt + fresh dill + hard boiled egg

• Stir fried chopped potatoes + onions (not the sweet, big one) + fried eggs + fresh dill 
• Polish sausages (so juicy and tasty) + fried eggs + fresh dill

I found the fresh dill has similar function as the green onions in Chinese dishes. And now I like the smell. 

Trip in China (21 days) in 2002? or 2001?

I checked my old diary.
Unfortunately, many of them are lost or no records.

Will try to record them as many as possible.

7/22
成都
華陽古鎮
辣到爆的川菜
豆花
都江堰 寶龍口
川劇 變臉

7/23
成都市街 殺蛇
鍋蓋麵 單純有嚼勁
鴛鴦鍋
三星堆
巴國布農
書城 圍城

7/25
青海湖 青稞 紅土
塔爾寺
羊肉串

7/27
蘭州
劉家峽
炳靈寺
黃河
青葡萄
夜臥火車

7/28
西安
兵馬俑
仿唐歌舞秀

7/29
碑林 褚遂良碑
大雁塔
灌湯包 羊肉泡饃

7/30
北京
天壇
全聚德
東來順 羊肉 芝麻醬 蔥花
天安門 紫禁城
雜耍

7/31
長城
老舍茶館
天地劇場 雙簧

8/1
北京大學 清華
頤和園 圓明園
豆汁 麵茶
王府井

8/3
南京

8/4
蘇州 上海
庭園
上海灘 內攤 外灘

沒記了...
但我記得 之後的景點都比較普通