kaiser rocks!

I love the Kaiser Szupermarket experience!! (pronunciation chart: sz = s. s = sh) It is in what clearly used to be an old covered market choc full of individual stalls. Sadly, it is now dominated by a single chain grocery store, the Kaiser, but it maintains some of it's former self.

Not only is there a coffee cart, a public toilet for the low, low price of 80 forint (actually kind of a rip, but seeing as I had just enjoyed the former, I probably used about 80 forints worth of...TMI) and fresh fruit stands to greet you as you enter, but inside there is a thrift store! A thrift store inside a supermarket! Go figure. Where else can you go out for a pint of soya, jar of olives, tinned tomatoes, and souvenir vase from Bratislava? Brilliant.

And of course, there are also the more predictable market stalls like the cheap, polyester bra and panty set stall, the track suit stall with fake down hoodies, and of course the booze and cigarette stall. It’s like a South London street market under one roof, minus the reggae cassette tapes.