All Costco beef is imported and therefore frozen. The fresh beef is defrosted before sale. I reckon the pork and chicken probably is, too. Online prices at their app are for frozen delivery typically so consider them the upper band price, ie it won’t be quite as expensive. If you want actual “fresh” prices, I’m…
I know it’s available on Shopee, but after the last time I ordered via Freezer Delivery… I don’t trust it to be delivered frozen or kept frozen properly. So I was glad to find it in a local store: Santa Cruz. It is inexplicably expensive. But I guess… people are reculturing from the initial batch,…
In many European cities, esp. around tourist zones those who look like they have money can become easy targets. Some friends were robbed in Spain in Madrid, I guess because they looked like they were from Japan. They were just students travelling. Over the years, I’ve been approached by drunks and druggies out for no…
We’re located in Taiwan. Boy! Is it expensive to get two documents approved for government use here? That’s NT$5000 a piece! I did it before using DHL to ship the documents back. That was even more expensive because I couldn’t do the translation myself then (that was an addition $7000 or more). Freaking expensive! I…
People say you can’t make good set yogurt with UHT milk. Does this prove them wrong? I’m not sure if this is a success since I haven’t been making yogurt for more than a few months. I used a no-sugar, no-additive commercial yogurt as a starter (pictured) available in the supermarket or convenience store. The…
I use the Easiyo maker with their own yogurt mixes. Only the 2nd one didn’t work out so well, mostly because I didn’t know how to recover the runniness (longer time fermenting). I also use the commercial yogurts from the store: but not those with no sugar or thickeners or other weird additives! A lot…
Yes. I got a reminder yesterday. I’ve put my site on maintenance mode for a few weeks, while I consider my options. I used to use Amalinks until Kompelling LLC took over and upped the price without telling adequate warning. I simply got an email from PP that the new price would be like much…
So it farmers get NT$27.7 for a liter of milk. $3billion / 108000000 liters of milk. ChatGPT says it’s about NT$32 for farmer’s rates in Ablerta. I guess global input costs are similar and there don’t seem to be any subsidies for milk production here. So… local milk is quite expensive. I’m impressed how much…
Today’s cycle ride via Youbike. I had to go to Hongshulin to find one! It was a bit rickety! I took nearly 2 hours! Including a coffee break. Google says 44 minutes! LOL! I don’t think Google knows my propensity to dilly-dallying along the way.