To be honest, I don't do the grocery shopping in my household. I live with my parents so obviously I still live off them (see what I just did there =P). However, sometimes I do visit the grocery store once in a while to buy random snacks or ingredients if I were planning on making or eating something for myself. Anyway, I don't have a certain grocery store that I visit. If I were to go with my mom when she shops for grocery, believe me, its like a mission. She checks for sales at different locations and buys a variety of food that can't be found in the local supermarket. Therefore, I wanted to focus on my grocery adventure at the chinatown in Mississauga! It's small and has a supermarket called "Oriental Market". Below is the video of my adventure.
Excuse my editing skills and the lack of excitement in my video. Also, I would've loved to take more footage but I was asked to stop =(. I didn't get in trouble, thank God. I've always liked Asian supermarkets, it lacks in cleanliness but I feel more comfortable and feel the authenticity of Asia in the store. I love the mysteries of the products they sell, I would buy items only for the pictures or noticing how popular it is from friends or the customers instead of knowing of how it taste. It is either a hit or miss with the taste of those products.
Anyway, from visiting the supermarket I decided to focus on SEAFOOD!
I am not really a meat person. I eat meat but I don't crave for it and if I do want meat, it's usually white meat (chicken or fish). There is a portion of my video where I focus on the different kinds of creatures in the seafood section of the supermarket. It was really interesting to be observing this section because I've never really noticed it. Here are some of the items in the section:
- crabs
- there were a lot of variety of sizes of crabs. Most of them were still alive and had a blueish orange hue on them.
- eels
- This was interesting, none were alive. There were ones that were still whole but other one large and in pieces! They have black skins and I wish I could have felt it but I couldn't touch.
- salmon
- the ones I saw were skinned and ready to be packed salmon pieces. I love the colour salmon has. Its bright orange colour, I swear its the most beautiful one out of all of the fish family.
- shells
- There were a large variety of shells; mussels, clams & shell oysters. Some are large and fat while others are skinny and dark coloured. I have a special relationship with shells because when I was younger, the beaches my family and I went to were hunting grounds for shells! To look for them were easy, all I had to do was twist my foot on the sand under the water and if I felt something hard, I would pick it up and chances were it was a clam. My family and I would have a bucket and collect as much as we can then would have it for dinner!
- squid
- They look shiny and slimy.
- shrimp
- The shrimps that were displayed were headless. I thought that they would've kept the head to make it seem more "fresh" but I guess not. They were small and brown with the hint of orange.
- conch
- The most interesting in the bunch! I couldn't believe a conch is something you can eat. I guess it would make sense because it is just like a bigger size of an escargot. To me, I thought they were just empty shells which people use at decorations of something but when I actually held the conch and saw something move inside, it blew my mind! The conches that were displayed had a rough and brownish grey exterior but inside was smooth and bright orange.
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| Sketches: (from top left) shrimp, squid, conch, clams and mussels. |
The word I would like to focus on in this blog post is on texture. Personally, texture is an art element that focuses on the sense of touch and see. We make an observation and determine if what we see if the same as what we feel. In the seafood section, I saw a variety of animals and their textures. Some were slimy and other were rough. I see that the textures each animal possess reflects on their defense mechanism from other species. So, if I were in a classroom and the children and I explore textures of the different species, not only will it expand their knowledge on texture but be able to understand the concept of why they possess this kind of texture.
