Shopping in Agat

Leeda runs a little fruit stand behind the post office. 

We've taken our cameras with us lately when we went shopping to record some of sights we've seen every week around Agat, Guam.

 Leeda is open most afternoons.  She sells cooking bananas, sweet bananas (sometimes), kalamancies (sweet lemons), local squash, bitter gourds, beetle nut, and sometimes breadfruit, mangos, or jackfruit, as available.  She is such a friendly lady.  We really appreciate her kindness, and good prices on local produce.

 

 On Tuesday afternoons, the Agat farmer's market/flea market is open.  It meets under some shelters between the post office and the ocean.

 

 

Friendly ladies sell all kinds of produce.  Starting in the right side of the photo, this lady is selling lemon grass, bread fruit, cooking bananas, something I can't identify in the dark colored bags, and finally some greens at the far left.

 There is a very long table of produce where I buy most of my local veggies.

 

 

 This man answers questions, and passes out bags for the produce.

 Here is some local eggplant, and wing beans.

 

 This is the main lady in charge of the long table of produce.  She has the most popular booth, and is the most busy.  You have to wait a long time for your turn to pay.  Here she is filling my bag on top of a pile of bitter gourds.

 She has a scale to weigh things, and then adds them up quickly in her head.  I think most things are around $1 a pound.  I've enjoyed shopping at her stand.

 Then back to the car with a handful of bags.

 

In front of the post office, across the parking lot is the most unique McDonalds I've ever seen or heard of.    It appears to be made out of a shipping container, with an awning on the front for dining.  There is no space for eating inside.

Our next stop is the Agat Kim Chee Grocery store, about 1/2 mile from our apartment.

 

Kim Chee's looks like a tiny story, and you'd think from the ads pasted on the wall outside that it just sells beer.

But it actually has a nice selection of the things I use, for reasonable prices, sometimes better prices then the big stores in the big town area of Guam.  At the head of this isle you can see the whole produce section.  There isn't a lot, but they have the basics:  potatoes, onions, garlic, cabbage, carrots, celery, cilantro (some days), Fuji apples, oranges, green onions, and a few other things that are local, or too expensive to buy.

I buy toothbrushes, cleaning supplies, paper supplies, canned food, pad thai noodles, rice, juice, canned goods, pickles and more here.  But they don't have tofu.

 If we can't find what we need locally, we can drive 25 minutes into town to the big stores.  This is a view of Cost-U-Less, kind of a Guam style Costco, with no membership needed.  Here many things come in big packages or cases, and Dole bananas are the best price on island $1.09.

With all of this available we have been living and eating pretty well.