Supermarket that doesn’t always look like one.

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Believe it or not, this is a supermarket.  This chain used to be exclusively for military and government workers, thus the name PX Mart.  — and the Chinese says, ‘Welfare Center.’  The stores often look like this: no pictures of food; no food on display; just a mysterious stairway going down.  You just have to know it sells food!  It took me six months of living in Taiwan to start recognizing these stores all over town!

Author: meiguoaqma

from Dayton, Ohio, USA; married to a Malaysian Chinese man, who grew up speaking five languages; three children, raised mostly in China.

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