To understand the culture of a place, you must first start in the supermarket.
The local supermarket looks like a factory like a brewery, with a huge parking lot outside...
The supermarket has a daily necessities area, a clothing area, a fresh food area, etc. It is a large supermarket with very complete specifications.
Ai Li and Chen Xiao walked around, and Chen Mo came to the fresh food area.
I heard the locals in Hawaii say before that what Hawaii lacks most is seafood, and what it lacks the most is also seafood.
The island of Hawaii has a population of close to 200,000. For example, in Ocean City, there is a road to the sea, which is not far away, but there is no port.
The seafood in Ocean City is really not cheap.
Although the cheapest part of yellowfin tuna is RMB 17 per pound here.
This is the reason why there are relatively few tuna now. In the season when there are more tuna, it is estimated to cost 11 or 2 yuan per pound. Yellowfin tuna is a relatively cheap tuna, 17 yuan, which is about 2.5 US dollars when converted into US dollars.
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Yellowfin tuna belly fish is relatively expensive, costing more than 30 yuan per pound in RMB. These fish are relatively fresh and relatively cheap.
There are also a lot of fish packaged in boxes, red, yellow and other very beautiful fish. Each portion is about two or three kilograms, and the price is about ten dollars. For sea fish, it is also very cheap...
King salmon sashimi, $46 a pound.
Frozen shrimp and king crab legs, $26 a pound.
There is also some frozen shellfish for $49 a pound.
The live seafood in supermarkets, such as groupers, are all caught by fishing. Live groupers come in different varieties and sizes, and the prices vary greatly. By the way, there are also farmed and wild ones here, and wild groupers.
Grouper fish is relatively expensive, converted into RMB, ranging from 30 RMB to 500 RMB per pound.
There are also fresh blue crabs in the supermarket, and the price after converting them into RMB is more than 90,200 RMB per pound.
Big crabs are more expensive.
Some seafood is cheaper than on land, and some is more expensive than on land.
But no matter what, the fresher the seafood, the more expensive it is. It’s not just the Chinese who know how to eat. The local aborigines also like fresh seafood, not frozen seafood.
There are many Japanese on Hawaii Island, as well as people from other Asian countries, and they also like fresh seafood.
Most white people like to buy diced seafood. Occasionally, they also come to the fresh seafood area to choose seafood...
"Hi, boss."
Chen Mo was about to buy a large grouper with orange spots when Moxi suddenly appeared from behind and shouted.
"Hey, look at this grouper, it's $76 a pound, how about it?"
"It's so expensive. This kind of grouper is also available in California, it's about 17 US dollars per pound. But it's frozen..." Moxi looked at it. The fish was about six or seven pounds, and it said wild on it.
They are all caught in the wild, and they were caught recently.
This big grouper looks very energetic...
This kind of fish is basically sold to rich people who come here for vacation. If the vitality seems to be gone, it will be slaughtered and frozen... and the price will be much cheaper.
Because there is also such grouper in the chilled section, which is much smaller and costs $23 per pound.
Chen Mo asked the supermarket staff to weigh him and found that the total was 532 US dollars. The supermarket staff asked if he had killed him.
After slaughtering, the staff put the fish into a long plastic chilled bucket with ice cubes inside. There is no extra charge for this... Expensive fish are treated differently.
At 76 US dollars per pound, the belly of albacore tuna is not that expensive. Only rare species of large live grouper can be purchased at this price. It is also the most expensive fish in the entire supermarket.
Next is the king salmon sashimi, which costs $46 a pound. But that’s foreign fish…
After carrying the frozen box out, a tall white man with reddish skin glanced at Chen Mo, then left quickly, taking out his phone contacts as he walked...
Moxi's face hardened: "Boss, do you know him?"
Chen Mo frowned: "I know you."
Moxi thought for a while: "Should we call the police?"
Chen Mo smiled and shook his head: "No, there are so many people in our group, what are we afraid of?" Chen Mo had seen the white man before, and he had no grudges. He was not a gangster or a bully. He was the secretary of Ou Shen City, the mayor's secretary.
Esenberg, the mayor of Ouxen City, has visited Chen Mo several times, mainly to discuss port construction...
Chen Mo has not yet replied to Eisenberg about this matter.
Oushen City has a coastline, but there is no population living in the coastal area. It is difficult to build a dock on the big island, let alone build a port...
For example, the Milo area in the north of Ouxen City is right on the seaside. There is no port or dock there.
Chen Mo has a construction permit for a private pier. This is mainly a pier for small yachts, and there are strict regulations on the number of berthing boats, the size of the pier, etc. To apply for the construction of such a small pier, it only takes a permit.
Chen Mo paid more than three million. This is under the premise of promising to allow environmentally friendly scientific research ships to dock after completion, otherwise, they would not be allowed at all...
Building a wharf or port does not require permission from the regional government. This requires the approval of the county government, and then it is reported to the state government, and it also needs to be reviewed by the Island Environmental Management Bureau...
It is not that there are no rich people here in Ouxian City. On the west coast of the big island, there is a famous rich village. A village is full of vacation villas of the rich... Many individuals, or several people jointly applied to build a dock, but none of them were approved. Only Ke
In the Na area, there are more docks there, and there is also a cargo port...
There is not even a small port along the southwest coast.
The city of Ouxen wants to build a port to promote regional economic development. This will face considerable resistance...
Chen Mo put the seafood in the car. The city secretary was in the parking lot. Looking into the distance, he saw Chen Mo coming and showed a sly smile: "Hello, Mr. Chen Mo."
"Hello……"
"Mr. Eisenberg also said this morning that he would come and visit you."
Chen Mo's face twitched slightly: "Well, I also want to find time to visit Mayor Esenberg."
"Mr. Mayor would like to invite you to visit Palo Bay, which is a good natural deep-water port."
"Let's talk about it. Let's talk about it after Christmas. Building a port is not a trivial matter. Are you... ready?"
Kaio shook his head in embarrassment: "Although building a port is troublesome, the benefits are also huge."
Chen Mo spread his hands and said, "Let's talk about it later."
The city of Ouxen will benefit the most from building a port. With a port, the local volcanic rock land can be sold at a good price, and it can also drive local tourism...
But for Chen Mo...
Hawaii has relevant laws that stipulate that large cargo ships cannot dock at the dock, and only cargo ships of specified sizes can enter the port.
Even if the port construction license is issued, the port built cannot be too big. After the port is completed, it can only charge some fees for berthing yachts, and can provide services for launching small yachts into the sea for a fee. These will not make much money...
The geographical location and environment here are destined to cost a lot to build a port. If it is just the port income, it will take hundreds of years for Chen Mo's investment to recover... To recover the income, he can only rely on additional additions.
Income, this aspect needs to be calculated carefully.
I'm too anxious to eat hot tofu...
Chen Mo also had to ask Cohen, the investment consultant, to see if the investment was worthwhile.