I was supposed to buy mango-flavored jelly poweder in Park-N-Shop (a supermarket in Hong Kong) and it made me 20 mins staring in 2 lanes of confectionaries till I lost patience to look anymore!
Having a local friend always helps, like when you get into taxi and want to tell chinese-speaking driver where you wanna go. It is always useful to keep handy names of things you wanna buy/go to at hand, but if you don’t (like I do), calling a friend and let the person next to you talk to him/her always helps.
Thank God I have good friends here. One of them helped me find mango jelly tonight!