I visited Montreal’s Costco and found amazing French baked goods and a shockingly disappointing poutine

Poutine, Tim Horton’s coffee, and hockey sticks – pure Canada.Richard Truong

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Richard Truong. The following has been edited for length and clarity.

I work as a software engineer for a large insurance company, and I’ve been a member of Costco since 2016. I started taking pictures of the signs and the prices because that’s how I would budget my food expenses in college.

After checking out Costco on recent trips to Australia and Japan, I traveled to Canada for an anime convention near Montreal.

I found a Montreal Costco that’s near a train station, so it was easy for me to drop by this warehouse.