Today I coincided with a huge crowd of seniors, three buses showed up to collect them later. So the place was a cheerful madhouse. And it explained why there were no carts outside.
Pic taken once the crowd thinned enough for me to get into my bag and find my phone.
I couldn't leave because I was totally hemmed in by carts as people tried to wait in line in a space design for a lot fewer. I had to lug a basket because every cart was in use. A kind man indicated in sign language that I was to put my basket, now heavy, into his cart and we queued together.
A young man from the prepared food counter ran a cup of soup out to a lady in line, loud joy ensued, discussion of, I guess, soup broke out.
Several people chatted with me evidently assuming I spoke Mandarin, maybe because I was shopping in their crowd. Nodding and smiling worked, and I could guess the gist.
So what started as a swift errand turned into an interesting morning. Took fifteen minutes to shop, an hour to leave!
