Al Whada Mall and LuLu's Hypermarket

These photos are just a few from the mall itself with various stores we recognized!  And to get to the Hypermarket (grocery store) you walk through the mall.  It's interesting to say the least. There appear to be two major grocery stores here in Abu Dhabi.  One is LuLu's and another is Carrefour.  We have not been to a Carrefour but the comparison has been made that Carrefour is like the Fiesta or WalMart while LuLu's is more like a Super Target. 

I also included several other random photos from our "cultural experience" so far....

Al Whada Mall - near the entrance

Haven't tried the Frap's yet....I'll get back to you on this one!

Tacos - it's what's for dinner!  Now the beef we use to make the tacos will be from either New Zealand, Australia, Pakistan and not sure where else.  The beef is separated into areas according to where it's from!  Interesting...

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Lays...and the flavor is "salt".  They have quite a few other flavors. 
They are different than what we're used to but still good! 

Lots of American style sugar cereals - and quite expensive.  A box cost around $5 or $6 a box! 

It's not Diet Coke - it's Coke Light

LuLu's is multi-levels.  You can buy all kinds of electronics there as well as exchange money and get groceries.  You take your grocery cart on the "flat" escalator. It's magnetic and so the cart (or as they call it - trolley" holds in place while you're moving. 

Not Wheat - Brown bread...

Oreo's don't come in a package like we're used to - they come in these rolls. 

Coke and Pringles...package deal!

Popeyes - two buildings over. We went during lunch and you can't eat there because of Ramadan so you take it back to the room. It tasted good.  Spicy was not really spicy (maybe they messed up the order?).  Biscuits were different too.  There is also a Pizza Hut one building away.  Pizza takes perfect. It was about $6 (USD) for a personal pan pizza, bread, and drink. 

We take the taxi where ever we go.  We use the "silver" ones.  They're the average price and quality.  This machine tells us their name permit number and how many Dhs (Dirahams) we owe. It also alerts the driver - and I suppose the passengers too - when he hits 80 km/hr.  Not that it helps their driving or anything!