Shopping in Shanghai

Today we asked the local agent to bring us to Carrefour to have a look at the prices for formula milk. Wah! It was really scary and crazy the prices. PediaSure in Shanghai is RMB208 per tin and it is only 900g. I can get this price at Malaysia for 1.8kg per tin. Now we have some problem as China government doesn't allow oversea people to ship formula milk into China. According to agent, china government does not encourage people to ship food into the country. If you insist to ship food item, it might take few months to inspect the stuffs so our whole shipment would be on hold because of the food. So the agent advises us to buy the food in Shanghai instead of bringing over. For electric appliances, the government will incurred some tax on the electric appliance you send. So the cost you have to paid is more than the cost if you buy in Shanghai. Seems like there are a lot of restriction.

For the rice, they have local rice and Thailand rice but they don't have the unpolished rice which recently we can easily find in Malaysia. For fish, I don't know how to settle as they don't have the fish from sea. The fish and also shell sold here are all from the river. Headache trying to think of how to find the fish that Ethan eat in Malaysia.

Really totally different culture from Malaysia. Hope that our whole family can survive in Shanghai.