Expedition to the Mysterious Grocery Store

Today we went on a drive--we got on Highway 23 South, and drove through Plaquemines Parish along the Mississippi River. Well, we couldn't actually see the river, but we could see the upper halves of ships looming up over the levee. Everything was green, all the houses were on pilings, and there were egrets everywhere. We kind of hoped for a backwoods sandwich place to appear, but there was none, so after about an hour we turned around for home. On the way, we managed to find an Asian supermarket that had eluded us in the past: Hong Kong Market. They had the best produce we've found in Louisiana so far (the cheapest too), and good deals on staples like rice noodles and beans. They also had fun weird things--lotus seeds, "fish balls", dragonfruit, black fungus. There was a seaweed aisle. There was a selection of shrine cabinets. There was a $1300 bottle of cognac on a very high shelf. We bought so many groceries. We spent about the same amount as we did at Whole Foods last week, but we got three times as much food. Hong Kong Market forever!