besides the Chinese characters the branding of Walmart in China is prettymuch the same
the big difference is inside
now at first sight it might look almost the same
besides the music and
the messages being blasted all the time
and some Chinese decorations the
rest is fairly similar
you have all the same categories of products you know
house products clothing storage cleaning
but if you look closely you'll find some
really weird and unique products
that you would never find in a Walmart back
home especially in the food section
so let me share with you my top 10 weird
products that you'd find in the Walmart
in China
yeah open-air dry meat so you'll find
like dry sausages dry ducks dry shrimp
dry fish I mean if you were to take me
around the Walmart with my eyes closed
I could tell from the smell that I'm in
this section
you can really get the combined stench of all those different dry meats and fish
I mean I'm sure some of this stuff tastes really good but
it's still weird to find this in a Walmart
live Turtles and those are not pets I'll
let you imagine the rest
in this section you'll also find live
toads well except this one and yeah
those are not pets either
I know those really look like snakes but
they're actually a kind of fish
they live in muddy waters I think if you
translate word-for-word here they are called mud fish
and they're kind of an
hybrid between a snake and a fish
I've tried them once in a hotpot and
basically they just drop the live
mud fish directly in the boiling broth and
they die and cook at the same time
It's not bad the texture is interesting but
there's like this weird mud aftertaste
anyways I'm not here to debate taste
everybody has different tastes
it's just strange to find this in the Walmart
black chicken now I've seen those in the
farmers market
but to find them in a Walmart is kind of surprising
I've never
tasted it apparently is good it has to be good because it's quite expensive
it's almost 50 Yuan for one kilo
if you compare to like regular chicken
drumsticks they go for like about 20 Yuan for 1 kilo
this has to be special and
strangely the skin is naturally black
I mean it's not coloured but the bird
looks like this
I wouldn't expect to find a black skin under those white
puffy feathers
now this one here is not really one
specific product but more kind of a product category
it's a bunch of small
individually wrapped snacks
and when I say snacks I'm not talking about like
the typical snacks or candies
that you'll find like chocolate nuts or
sweets
here is a very different type of snacks
I'm talking about tofu
marinated
vegetables
small sausages
duck legs and
duck necks
small fishes
fish steaks
small
squids
and a bunch of other small snacks that I wouldn't be able to say exactly what they are
cracked quail eggs on a bed of salt
I'm not sure what to think about this
So here you got a bunch of tied up live
small crabs stacked on top of an ice table
with some fake grass or something like that
I guess it's meant to make it look more fresh or appetizing
I don't know about you but to me this looks very depressing and sad
to see all those little creatures spending their last moments all tied up in strings like that
baked sweet potatoes that you can buy
and eat like that
perfect snack to eat on your way back
from Walmart's right
a 3400 Yuan bottle of Remy Martin
in a Walmart
alright so this one is not really a
product because they're not really selling it it's more... [Chair speakers are talking]
okay
the chair is talking to me
so yeah like I was saying this is not really a
product that they're selling it's more like a service
every time I'm going to Walmart I'm always surprised to see those massage chairs around
most of the time I just see people sleeping in those chairs
but every now and then you'll see
someone actually using the massage function
and in the toy section you'll
find a lot of brand appropriation and
weird IP hybrids and mixes that don't
really make sense
like the Superman gun shooting little kind of ping pong balls
I don't remember Superman ever using a gun
or you got those fast-food
transformers the burger robot the french fries robot
a toy chainsaw
then you got this Hybrid between the movie cars and some dinosaurs so it's like kind of a
a car with eyes and some dinosaurs so it's like kind of
a car with eyes that's a jar full of
plants and dinosaurs and an egg yeah
and you'll find a similar car but this one with some kind of blocks
seems like the same design or the same
company that makes those
you'd think that a big store chain like Walmart that's
pretty much all over the world
would be more careful about IP protection and
copyright issues
but I guess they have no saying whatsoever
tons of Pig plushies
actually this one is kind of a cheat
because it's the Chinese year of the pig so
you'll find pigs everywhere all year
long
I'm finally out I've been in this place for hours
I think I've had my doze
of Walmart for at least a little while
anyways I hope you enjoyed my top 10 of
weird things you can find in a Chinese Walmart
and I'll catch you in the next one
