Yesterday I went with my friend to AWAH (pronounced "Ashaun). It's the Russian equivalent of a Walmart/Cosco store. The space is located inside a huge mall which you have to walk through to get into it. Boutiques, shoe, fur, jewelry stores, dry cleaners, and restaurants. Finally we got into AWAH with our super-sized shopping carts. The large isles are a square figure 8 with about 30 long smaller isles running through each box. The Russians are aggressive with their shopping carts and no one will hesitate to let you cut across. It felt like a roller derby.
Yards of seeds to plant a garden, jars of marinated mushrooms, and hundreds of salami's and sausages. In addition to the usual electronics and cuts of meat was a 100 foot isle of smoked fish of every kind you could possibly imagine. Some whole with there heads on: trout, salmon, pike, mackerel, and eels. At the end of the isle was the herring and caviar section. Next time I'll have to take a picture.
twenty-something years of "what have you been up to?" 
Leave a comment