San Diego To Do List
Like my craving for Mexican food (post here), I had pent up demand for several other things. Food of course was at the top of the list. This list includes the Caesar Salad at Souplantation and the black sesame boba at Tapioca Express (which I wrote about after my USA roadtrip here), and has expanded to include a range of other dishes including...
...the pork bbq with its addictive dipping sauce (front) and jungle curry with tofu (right) from Sang Dao restaurant (specializing in Laotian food, map here)...
...and the spicy, tangy, mouth-numbing long beans at Spicy City (map here). Those beans are the tiny little green tubes on the right hand side, buried underneath the pile of seaweed and next to the equally crave-worthy sliced beef in front.
This time back in the states though, I also craved American shopping. As in, endless variety for the lowest prices. On my list of places to go were Trader Joe's where I stocked up on real vanilla extract (not the fake stuff I find in the Netherlands), and funny enough, saffron imported from Spain, which I cannot find at all in the Netherlands.
Of course this list included Costco, where I stocked up on face and body moisturizers. The face moisturizer I can find in Europe, but it's much cheaper in the US especially at Costco, and the moisturizer I can't find in Europe. In fact, I can't find any unscented moisturizer here.
Wal-Mart is not a place I crave going to, but I saw in their weekly ad that they had a Rollback on Crest Pro-Health (Rollback = can't find it any cheaper anywhere else, and you probably won't see it at lower price again at Wal-Mart anytime this year). For comparison, the same toothpaste (called Oral-B Pro-Expert in the Netherlands; Crest and Oral-B are both brands of the same company), is ounce for ounce, milliliter for milliliter, THREE times more expensive in the NL even without Rollback or discounts. Coincidentally, this week Albert Heijn has a 50% off sale on Pro-Expert, and compared to the Pro-Health I got on Rollback with a coupon, it was... still THREE times more expensive.
