1464 Chinatown (1/2)

After having breakfast, Zhang Zian took the elves with him and drove off.

They went out later than yesterday, and since he already got dressed in the evening to prevent getting caught in traffic jams in the morning, today's schedule was very relaxed. He was only planning to go to one area in Chinatown. If there was more than enough time, he would slowly explore Fusong City and Little Italy City nearby ... not to watch a strip show, of course.

Richard crouched on Zhang Zian's shoulder in resentment with his mouth tied closed using a string. Sadly, that meant he couldn't sing.

The other elves weren't as interested, but since they wouldn't be doing much, they followed anyway. Since they just came from China, how interesting would it be to go back to Chinatown? Isn't the bustling area full of Chinese people? Nevertheless, it was at least better than staying in Binhai.

The terrain of San Francisco was undulating and required the car to move slowly. Zhang Zian drove while listening to the navigator's directions.

As he passed by a local pet store in the United States, he stopped to visit it and found the Leshi dog food on the shelf. Since he had plenty of time, he pretended to be an ordinary customer wanting to buy things and stayed in the store for a while to observe. He roughly estimated that the sales of this dog food were relatively average, probably because this was made in the United States and they couldn't rely on the blind trust of Chinese customers to sell foreign brands as a key promotion tactic.

He stood in the store for half an hour and would sometimes see someone come over, pick up Leshi dog food and compared it with the dog food next to him, then either take it to checkout or put it back in place.

He didn't know what they were thinking, but It seemed that the Americans who choose Leshi dog food generally wore ragged clothing and had contemptible personalities; this dog food was considered a bargain. However, it was placed with other smaller brands of dog food on both the higher and lower shelves. Popular expensive dog foods were placed on the middle shelf, slightly lower than the customer's line of sight; it was the easiest place for customers to find it. It seemed that wealthy customers entered the store and often bought popular dog food brands without thinking about the other ones, and the customers who would squat down or tiptoe are the ones that would pick up cheaper dog foods from smaller brands and contrast them carefully.

”Hello. I'm struggling between these two dog foods, would you mind if I ask you which one you would choose?”

Zhang Zian called out to a young man who was holding two packs of dog foods for comparison, with one of them being the Leshi dog food.

The young man glanced at him and weighed Leshi dog food in his hand before he said, ”I choose this.”

”Why?” Zhang Zian asked.

The man shrugged and said, ”Because it's cheap enough, and it says the source of raw materials and processing place are in the United States. I think it's better than the other one.”

The raw materials of high-grade dog food were traceable. However, raw materials for lower-grade dog food couldn't be traced but generally indicated where they came from. Americans often thought that the raw materials that came from foreign countries, especially China, were unreliable.

Zhang Zian didn't ask anything else left the pet shop after the bill was settled.

He believed that Leshi dog food's packaging didn't lie. The source of the raw material and the processing place were indeed located in the United States, but this didn't necessarily mean that it was reliable.

The elves waited impatiently as he continued driving around Chinatown, deliberately changing where he would enter so he wouldn't pass that green-roofed door.

Many people were attracted to gold. God knew why the arches of Chinatown were green; this made Zhang Zian extraordinarily superstitious.

The car window was rolled down. As soon as someone drove into ​​Chinatown, familiar Chinese languages would be swept into the car by wind. Mandarin and Cantonese were used equally, while English and other languages were used less frequently.