A few hours later...

Here we go!

Here's an excellent explanation: what-if.xkcd.com/58/

No way this passed the CE safety tests lmao. All 20 lights are connected in series so that would explain the 12V-240V marking. Fastest way to fix it would be to just replace the plug with a fused UK type plug but I'd still like to power this off USB somehow.

Looking closer it's an MB10F, a FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER. I guess I'll have to replace the entire circuit with something safer, don't want to set the apartment on fire.

Popped it open and here we are, just a single chip, most likely a rectifier of some sort.

I went to buy something for lunch and it looked like everyone else went to the shop to stock up for an entire week.

No surprises here, the whole region has so much to offer in terms of food, you will always find something different and delicious to eat.

I'm from that region! Hope you enjoy your trip, the food there is amazing (I'm just a little bit jealous).

HF is no joke. It doesn't "clean" glass, it literally dissolves it. It's used to etch patterns in silicon wafers. As engineering students, we spent a week in a clean room to make our own chips and were told that any skin contact with any colorless liquid required immediate hospitalization.