Downstairs in the food court area of one of the malls on Nanjing West Road 南京西路, we discovered something so great that life will never be the same again: “Enjoy Easy,” a 100 yen shop, full of cool, cheap, Japanese stuff.

100 yen shops in Japan are like dollar stores in Canada or the US, but full of quirky, clever, and very Japanese merchandise.

Naturally, almost everything in these stores goes for 100 yen (about $1.) “Enjoy Easy” sells everything for 10 RMB, which is a bit more, but it’s a small price to pay for some really cool crap from Japan!

The shelves are stocked with great stuff:

- Assortment of bento boxes and rice and soup bowls
- Tons of Japanese kitchenware
- Keychains of gorillas and godzilla that make the most annoying noises imaginable
- Japanese snacks
- Mugs, tea cups, tons of Japanese toys and trinkets
- A tooth brush that I just couldn’t live without:

And if I ever needed any proof of the power and reach of this blog, well look what they decided to stock, clearly after reading last week’s post: