A Good Deal

By Rachel

There are basically two food economies here: one in local food, which is quite cheap, and one in imported food, which is more expensive. The good deals happen when the food we want happens to be food the Mongolians want too. Yesterday at Mercury I got this bag of garlic for 1200 tugrugs, or about a dollar.

Other good deals include tofu for about 40 cents, potatoes and carrots for less than a dollar a kilo and flour for 80 cents per kilo.