Things that are different here in Bali

I am kind of a snack food afficianado so I like to notice what snacks and candies are available in places when we travel and like to try them if they don't seem too weird.
A popular snack food brand is named 'oops'
There are lots of cookies in small snack packs, but except for Oreo's they are almost all some kind of wafer.
Strawberry is a very popular flavor for many candies and cookies.
The flavorings for snacks and chips is very subdued from western standards. You can barely tell that a barberque flavored chip is not plain.
Some popular chip flavors are seaweed, roasted chicken and chili plus the barbeque I mentioned.
They grow peanuts here so there are lots of peanuts based snacks. 
Some bread that we are served is like cake.
That's it for snacks, the following is general things that are different.
There must be 30 different brands of laundry soap.
I have been trying to find a lightweight shirt, but it has so far been impossible. For one thing the clothing is not lighweight. I can buy denim and long sleeve shirts or thick teeshirts, but not a simple linen white shirt. Also, in clothing sections of stores men's and women's clothes are not sold in obviously separate sections or areas. A rack of shirts will also have blouses, men's shoes will be next to women's, etc.
In general food is pretty cheap, but because we have to go out for every meal it can still take a big bite out of our budget (pun intended). Drinks are the most expensive part of a dinner. Most drinks cost more than the entrés. A simple glass of white house wine (Yes, Bali actually has a pretty decent local wine.) costs about $8, a mixed drink like a Marguarita is $9, local beer (Bintang, reminds me of Corona) is cheaper, but still about $5, imported beer is as much as a mixed drink. but almost any entré is less than $6. Without drinks a very nice meal with salad, soup (tomato for me, of course), excellent entré and dessert for two would be less than $30, but with drinks it can end up around $45-$50.
    One curious thing is that although cigarettes are available everywhere, there are no pipes or loose tobacco or rolling papers and no smoke shops either.
Although there are gas stations they are not so common that you can count on finding one so almost every roadside store sells gasoline by the liter from old plastic water bottles. I guess that isn't dangerous?
Regarding driving, in Bali there are no rules. Do whatever is convenient; drive on the wrong side of the road, park anywhere, go at any speed (slowly), don't use your lights, pass the vehicle in front of you (on either side) even if there are other vehicles coming, run red lights, put the whole family on the motorscooter, don't have a license or insurance. Somehow it works as I haven't seen an accident. Everyone just knows what to do and it all goes smoothly with no one seeming to get upset. And somehow I manged to drive in this chaos too.
One really good and different thing in Bali is that cell phones are cheap, service is cheap and best of all they work everywhere; the city, the jungle, the beach, little islands, everywhere. Very convenient for traveling the way we are as we can easily arrange for a hotel or a driver or just to call each other. Come on America, catch up!
The following might be too geeky for some readers:
As an amateur myrmecologist I am interested in and casually look for what kind of ants live in the places we travel. (It is not as crazy as it might seem as I discovered rather poisonous ones in the trees and fire ants in Panama thus we avoiding nasty stings while hiking and which we might not have noticed otherwise.). In Bali there appears to be three kinds of ants, all harmless. There are large (1/4 inch) solitary black ants that roam around looking for who knows what and are similar to ones in the Sierra's, squads of dainty little red ants with long legs racing over the hot rocks and packs of tiny little black ants no bigger than a speck of pepper dashing helter-skelter everywhere and most often on the fruit in the offerings that are left on the ground and roads. None of them seem to care about the other.
In the evening there are geckos on the walls of every restaurant. There seem to be three kinds, but they might just be different ages or male and female destinctions. There are white ones and green ones and spotted ones. Thay all interact with each other. For amusement we watch them battle for space, chase each other, catch bugs and make the sound from which their name comes; they actually say "gecko!"

Tomorrow we have an authentic breakfast at our driver's home and then head off for Sanur and the fast boat to Nusa Lembongan, a little island off the east coast of Bali for a couple of days of snorkeling and diving where they claim we will see large manta rays.