Monday, October 6, 2025

Lotte Plaza Market, Superfresh Market, A&W Ice Cream Sundae Root Beer & Places I'll Never Visit Again

My sincere apologies for not doing one of these in two months. Late this week I'll post two more of these (one solely devoted to the theatrical experiences I've had) but I'm fired up now. Today was full of dealing with dumb, ignorant people. I'll spare most of those details... a journey was made into Orlando to look at H Mart, a just-opened Asian grocery store part of a chain.

I knew it's constantly been busy since opening; what wasn't expecting: my walking in the building and discovering a giant confusing clusterfrick where I had no idea what was going on, there was a long line for something, and I couldn't just grab a cart and walk inside. An employee was also a giant A-hole; that's why I left, never to return to a baffling place that's so unfriendly to the customer... where apparently you're just supposed to know what's going on. The heck with them. The fact that recently I went to the similar Lotte Plaza Market for the first time & experienced no issues... even if it's in not the best part of Orlando, I'll just go to Lotte or try one of the other Asian grocery stores around.

After leaving Hell Mart, I went to a new place that was passed by: Superfresh Market. It's a small grocery store & like I suspected, it's serving a Hispanic crowd. Several items were picked up (including a 40 pack of water that's hilariously from Member's Mark, i.e. a Sam's Club label) then I walked to the nearby Ollie's Bargain Outlet where several more items were purchased.

As I'll mention sometime within the upcoming week, it's not all been doom & gloom since early August. Some restaurants were revisited for the first time in awhile... everything from a Bahama Breeze to a White Castle, this one located in my city of Clermont. The food there is still “eh” so it won't be a regular stop by any means. In terms of drink, I purchased a 12-pack of A&W Ice Cream Sundae Root Beer. While not something I'd like to consume for the rest of time, as a novelty it was fine.

To reiterate, I'll be back sometime in the upcoming week.