LEARN ENGLISH Like You’re Shopping With Your Friends

Welcome back everyone to another slow English vlog in my old style. Today we are in a grocery store and we are going to do some shopping. I'm with my brother Leon and in this video you'll be learning vocabulary, common phrases, and you'll hear us talk naturally. These are the words you'll learn today. You can see I'm like sweating. 360 degrees. Let me check how many grams it is. 400 and it's on sale. Let's see here. This is the cosmetics area. I think got a chef here. They can make you whatever you want. You're supposed to go to the grocery store. My cake and I just had the other egg tart. I really love poutine a lot. Let's get started. Okay so we're now outside in the parking lot. We're about to go into the grocery store. You can see I'm like sweating. It's hot. How did we get here? We got here using Grab taxi bikes. Yeah but now this parking lot's pretty busy. There are a lot of people so we're gonna head into the mega mall. Mega shopping grocery store. Superstore? Yeah like the one in Boyd. Yeah it's a similar color. It's like blue. These are all shopping carts. The shopping carts are silver and blue. So now Leon is pushing the shopping cart. He is pushing the shopping cart. You can see the handle here is blue and this is the store we're at. As you can see we have just entered the grocery store here. One thing I find very interesting about shopping carts in Asia is that the back wheels also spin 360 degrees. So you could just spin the shopping cart like this. In North America these wheels are fixed. So these wheels are pointed like this the whole time. So only the front wheels move. Did you want to get some granola? This looks Japanese or Chinese maybe. Granola. I really do like granola. I feel like that's pretty expensive for granola. No? It's a small bag. It's not very big for me. Let me check how many grams it is. 450 grams. So it's not a lot. Just under half a pound. Okay let's go. Okay so the things I need to buy today are toothpaste, a metal bowl, soap like hand soap like a bar of soap and also a blender since my blender low-key blew up and it started smoking. I was using it. Blew up. That's why you just don't buy a blender from Shopee. Okay so I'm looking at this Philips blender and it actually looks quite good and it's on sale. You can see here 230,000. Oh and it looks like a good blender. I might have to acquire this blender. Yeah Philips is a very good brand. All these items here are on sale. You used to only be able to fill it up like right here right? Yeah this one the max is three liters or no 30 ounces. Okay guys so you can see I put the blender in my shopping cart here and also I think I'm going to buy this mini fan. It's only around five dollars but it's nice to have a fan because a fan can keep you a lot cooler even though the temperature is the same in the room. So I got a fan and a blender here. This blender looks pretty good. So now we're walking through the aisles here. This aisle has a lot of pots. You can see pots. Big pots. This is a big pot. The lid is made of glass and metal. You can see my reflection inside the pot. Now I'm closing the lid. Okay so we found a toothpaste. I think I'm gonna go with this one Colgate Max Fresh Ultra Freeze. Probably gonna hurt my mouth. Okay now here are the bars of soap. What's a good one? Maybe I'll buy a packet of three. Three bars of soap. These ones usually last a really long time like all of these because they're usually really hard. So they're not like dove soap that like just deteriorates. Yeah 10 washes and it's basically gone. These are hard so they last a lot longer. This one looks good so I think I'll get this one. I don't know what flavor this is but I'm sure it smells good. Three thousand. 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No OGX is a good brand but I don't use it I use Shea Moisture. Oh that is what I use. Can you find that here or do you have to special order it? Special order because it's just meant for curly hair but yeah now let's go find the last remaining items. All we need is a metal bowl and I want to buy granola too. And now we're in the cutlery aisle. Leon is looking for some spoons but I'm looking for a metal bowl like a big big one. Oh something like this but for eating something meant for food. That looks very Korean but it's from Thailand. Something like this bowl like this. Were these the bowls? I thought they were like a little bit different. Maybe there's a different area. Oh they're trying to rob me. Hell no. This picture shows a large warehouse style supermarket. There are tall shelves filled with boxes and products on both sides of a wide aisle. The floor is clean, the lights are bright and several shopping carts can be seen throughout the store. A worker wearing a red shirt is standing on a platform placing products onto a high shelf. The store appears very organized. Colorful displays of products have been arranged near the front of the aisle to attract customers attention. The shelves stretch far into the distance making the building look large and spacious. Customers can be seen farther down the aisle while the worker continues restocking inventory. Stores like this are designed to maximize storage space while keeping products accessible to shoppers. Large quantities of merchandise can be stored on the high shelves allowing customers to choose from a wide variety of goods. Although the store looks calm and orderly, a great deal of work is required behind the scenes to keep the shelves stocked and the business operating efficiently. Okay so we've almost gone through the whole grocery store here. Now we're at the seafood area. So we walked through the whole grocery store. We pretty much got everything we needed. The blender, the toothpaste, the soap and an extra thing of fan. We decided not to get the metal bowl because I don't actually really need it and they were a bit overpriced. So I don't really need it that much. I did want to get granola but the granola is also super expensive for what you get so. But that's like what you would pay in Canada I think too so. This ain't Canada. I know but that's not something that's popular here. Yeah. So they're basically bringing that over from somewhere else. Yeah so we decided not to get that. And also at the very end we'll have another shadowing segment to end the video. So make sure you watch the whole video. So here they have sushi. Maybe get some of this for lunch. How much would we pay for this in Canada? This would be like at least $15. I'm just looking for straight California rolls. Doesn't look bad. Low-key I might get this one. This looks pretty good. I like this. Yeah this mixed one. I think I'll get that. I think they got a chef here. They can make you whatever you want. Yeah sushi chef. But also look for some yogurt and I'll get this. I'm not the biggest fan of sushi but this looks pretty good. Usually I would just eat California rolls. Okay so I've decided to get this one instead. It's like double the price but I think I like this a lot more. It has eel and more fish. Anyway let's look for the yogurt. My Greek yogurt. This is my yogurt. Greek yogurt. Natural light. Okay so I just picked up three one kilo containers of yogurt. So that's a lot of yogurt. Is yogurt measured in kilos or liters? Kilos or grams. 907 grams. So it's weight instead of volume. Yeah I'm actually buying a lot more stuff than I thought. I'll buy some butter too. Some salted butter. This I guess is foie gras. It's super controversial. The liver of a duck. I've never seen that. That's huge. That's crazy. Usually they fry it up like this and you eat it like that. It's really rich. Wow but here you have a bunch of different types of meat. These are all like deli meats and they'll slice it for you there. But I think we'll get lunch up here. We'll see what they have. Okay so Leon is fat. Okay so Leon and I forgot we got this. So we're just gonna get this instead of that like fried stuff over there. But Leon saw egg tarts. He wants to get his own but I say we just share. Yeah we can share. You said you wanted your own so I brought you here to show you. That's definitely happening. This is the bakery section. You can literally get just a whole pizza here. Yo low-key banana bread. Oh yeah. Sponge cake dude. Man you cannot bring me to a bakery area. I'll eat everything. You had it in Hanoi but bigger. I'll eat everything here dude. This looks so good. I don't even know what this stuff says. Butter and milk cake. Butter and cheesecake. I'm like really like a kid in a candy store dude. I love baked goods. So if I can't find a banana bread I'm gonna take this butter and milk cake. Okay so me and Leon are actually big backs bro. We got we got croissants. We got this cake. We couldn't find banana bread but we got a lot more stuff than we thought we would. And a lot of the stuff we probably don't need but we don't come to the grocery store often since we usually order on Grab. So we thought might as well just pick it up here. And you know we didn't follow the rule of going to the grocery store. You're supposed to go to the grocery store when you're not hungry. Yeah we haven't eaten anything yesterday. We've come while we're hungry and we just want to eat all the good stuff. Honestly we didn't get too much. All we got was sushi and I got this cake. Leon got a bunch of croissants and also the same sushi. Yeah. Now let's go to the checkout area and pay for our food. I'm gonna scan all my products here. So there. I just scanned my product. That's the item and then I put it over there. Let me scan this one now. So yeah now I'm gonna scan all the things I bought here and then pay for it on this terminal. Okay so we've just paid for all our groceries. We got all our groceries here and now we're gonna wait for our taxi and then take it back to our apartment. But you can see we bagged all of our goods except for the two big products. Now we're gonna go home. We put our groceries at the back. Just got into the taxi and now we're heading back home and we're leaving the grocery store. We are sitting in the back of taxi right? Yep. And what are we doing? We're uh riding back home. Yeah we're just going back home. It's a little bit of traffic today. It's crazy. It is Friday so. Yeah it is Friday but it is like noon I guess yeah. It's going to be busy right now. It's a busier time since people are probably going out to eat or going home for lunch. I'm not exactly sure how people do it in Vietnam because Canada a lot of time people go home for lunch so around noon it's really busy and right now it's like literally 12.09. Yeah and I think schools might have half days in Vietnam. Oh really? I'm 60% sure. As you can tell we're not Vietnamese but yeah we're heading home now in traffic. We'll see you guys at home and we'll unpack everything and we'll try that sushi. See how it is. Rate it 1 to 10 and eat those big goods we got. What did you get? I got a cake. Butter and milk cake. Holy moly. Okay guys we've just got home. Let me turn the lights on. These are light switches. There are three. One, two, three. I just turned the lights on. Now it's brighter in here. We just got back home. You can see the blenders there on the counter and we have our groceries here on the table and now we're going to eat that sushi and dessert. So let me pack away some of the stuff first. So these are shopping bags. I'm sure you guys know that. This is the fan I bought. I think that Leon's and this is mine. My sushi, my cake and my three large containers of Greek yogurt. Low fat. Greek yogurt in my opinion doesn't have like the best taste at all but I don't eat it by itself. I don't think I could. I mix it with my smoothies and protein powder so that makes it way nicer. So yeah I just packed that away in there. Now I have these shopping bags here and then the other things I have. I bought a small stick of butter. I also bought toothpaste and finally three bars of soap. I do want to show you guys inside my freezer though. I literally just have five packets of frozen berries and then I have I think two or three packets of frozen blueberries and a packet of frozen blackberries. I'm a berry fiend. I have a lot of berries and in here I have a lot of yogurt and that's why I needed this blender so I can make smoothies because I'm gonna be honest with you recently this is what I've been doing. I have this thing. This is kind of like meant to smash. Usually it goes in the blender so you can like move the stuff in the blender around but my blender broke so I've literally just been taking a big pot, smashing all the berries with the yogurt, smashing it to make the smoothie. I've been doing that for the past couple of days because I just didn't order a new blender or go to the grocery store to buy a new blender but now finally I have a blender so I don't have to smash my berries and yogurt together. But yeah now we're gonna eat our lunch here. Don't just watch this lesson and forget it. Get the workbook for this video on my website and practice everything from the lesson more deeply. Inside you'll review the grammar, vocabulary, tenses, sentence patterns, comprehension questions, and real English from this video with clear explanations and exercises. Watching helps you understand but practicing helps you remember and when you buy five or more workbooks you automatically get 30% off at checkout. The link is in the description or at volcaenglish.com. Little food review. The sushi. Sushi. Let me open it up here for you guys. This right here is tape and they sealed it with tape. It's kind of tough isn't it? So I'm going to use Leon's fork. There we go. First try. Here you can see the sushi. Looks pretty good honestly. And then this is my cake. This is my drink. Low-key I'm kind of thirsty. What about you? A little dehydrated so I need this Coke Zero to rehydrate myself. Yeah. There's ice in this. Dude that fridge is cold man. Yeah. There is ice in this thing. I don't think we have chopsticks do we? Uh no. So this is the I think eel and then crab. This just had the other egg tart. We each got two and this is actually amazing. It doesn't look like the normal ones where the top is burned but these are good. They're very flaky, very buttery and like the egg tart itself like the filling is very good. Very very good. Wow. The inside is nice and gooey and it actually has a lot of flavor. Like I'm surprised it's this good. Okay guys now I'm having my dessert which is the milk and butter cake. Honestly if I was at home like at my home in Canada I would cut it open, make whipped cream with no sugar, put it on the inside, put it on top and then put strawberries on the inside and on top and make like a strawberry shortcake. I love strawberry shortcake. This cake itself is really good. Okay you guys I have set up my blender here so now it's ready. You can see there's just this one dial that controls the speed. These are all the different levels of speed and you just turn it to the right to turn it on or the left and here you can see you have to lock it before you use it. Yeah it's my blender and this right here is my fan. So this is the on button and now it's running. A small little fan. Nothing too too big or fancy but it's enough to cool me down more. You can see there we have a bigger fan. It's nighttime now you can see it's dark and I got delivery from Fat Cat. This is a burger place that my brother over there recommended to me and yeah I'll show you guys what I got in a second here. The first thing I got is a burger. They stapled it shut so I need to break that so you can see a burger with some fries and this is just a takeout container and then over here this is what I'm excited for. I got a poutine. It looks like that's mozzarella cheese but this is poutine. I know it doesn't look good but once you put this gravy on here it's really good and poutine is like a Canadian dish which is like there aren't really many Canadian dishes just like maple syrup and poutine and that's from like the French part of Canada but poutine is one of my favorites. I really love poutine a lot. Super good. Now you guys can see I'm gonna pour the gravy on top of the fries. This gravy is a little bit weird. Normally the gravy is a lot runnier and a lot more like brown. This one is kind of like looks a little bit gelatinous but I mean gravy is gravy. It's not bad. Here we have the burger. This looks like a funny burger. They cut the bun very bad. Let's try it. Not bad. Let me wipe my face. So this is what I'm having for dinner. I'm having a poutine because I haven't had one in many years and it really reminds me of Canadian food and also a which is something our family cooks a lot in Canada. Poutine and a burger. That's what I'm having for dinner. Let me know in the comments what you are having for dinner tonight. Let me know in the comments. I'll see you guys in the next video and remember you will become fluent in English. This picture shows a meal on a table. There are several pieces of sushi in a black container near the front. A person is sitting across the table and appears to be eating. There is also a bottle of soda, a glass, a banana and a few eggs on the table. The table has a dark marble pattern and several plastic food containers can be seen around the meal. The scene looks casual and relaxed as if someone is having lunch or dinner. Some of the food has already been eaten and a few empty containers remain on the table. A phone is lying near the person while forks and other utensils are scattered around. The variety of food suggests that several items were purchased from a supermarket or convenience store. This image captures a simple dining experience. The combination of sushi, fruit, eggs and drinks creates a diverse meal with different flavors and textures. Although the table appears somewhat cluttered, it reflects a realistic moment of everyday life. Scenes like this are common when people share a meal, take a break from shopping or enjoy convenient ready-made food at home or in a dining area. Yo, what are you working on? Yo, I'm working on my channel right now. I just started. 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