Going out and buying food in China is something of a challenge like everything else. Even in the best supermarkets you don't have much choice except to wander around endlessly looking for things, if you can't speak the language. I look carefully at packages and scan for signs of what I'm looking for. Buying meat is OK, when I wanted beef recently I stuck my fingers out on top of my head and mooed, the lady pointed me in the right direction, and fish you can just point at.
Near where I work buying vegetables is less easy than you might think, there is a food market nearby, you'd think buying veggies is easy wouldn't you? Wrong. There are dozens of stalls and all they sell is fruit. Honest! Row on row of fruit: not a veggie in sight! Does anyone eat that much of the stuff? There are even shops selling nothing but apples and bananas! And there are big supermarkets with entire sections selling nothing but yoghurt: skiploads, truckloads of the stuff. (Personally I have never seen the point of yoghurt: or why if you walk into a big supermarket about a quarter of the floor space is taken up with yoghurt. Ok I'm exaggerating a bit but I'm sure you know what I mean.) So if you can live on fruit and yoghurt, you're sorted! But for a balanced diet you do have to shop around a bit.
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