People who have been to Japan before will not find the below images an unfamiliar sight. However, being the noob Hui Min I am, despite having my colleague just returning from Japan and telling me all about the exorbitant supermarket prices, was still very amazed and excited at the prices of the fruits I saw in Meidi-ya supermarket at Liang Court yesterday.

A very very big and juicy apple. Not that I have tried it and found it juicy, but being so humongous, I assumed it is very juicy and sweet to eat. And the price is... (if you can't see clearly from above)

SGD$17.50!! Just imagine..I can eat 5 plates of chicken rice in replacement of the 1 apple (albeit a huge and juicy apple).

The watermelons were not unusually huge or anything. But my collegues told me all these fruits were genetically modified and specially flown in, hence the prices. This particular watermelon costs SGD$79.00 and I can eat 2 very satisfying luncheons at raffles hotel with this money and 4 very satisfying luncheons at raffles hotel, counting in the staff discounts. WOOHOO!

And lastly, my favourite seedless grapes. Yes, grapes are usually more expensive than other fruits..but...

ISN'T SGD$199.00 FAR TOO EX FOR ONE BUNCH OF GRAPES?!?

so we spent much time in Meidi-ya Supermarket (instead of returning to the office) pondering over whether anyone actually buys all these fruits. My colleague pointed out that these fruits are perishable (duh!) hence if they actually bring in all these things, it would mean that people actually buy them and there is actually a demand for these humongous apples, standard-sized watermelon and the champagne grapes in Singapore.

Besides the prices of the fruits, my colleague and I found this very amusing.

The "CRUNKY Walking Bar"!!

What sort of name is CRUNKY? A cross between "crunchy" and "chunky"??

And, WALKING BAR??!?