Likewise in my country. The only thing that i can bought using my bitcoin is prepaid load other than that you still have to convert it to your currency just to pay online payments such as uitility bills and other online transactions. Though i heard that we can use it to give tips for Uber but i havent try and never ask though. Never know how true it is.
This is also true in my country, you need to have a online wallet for this to be used mainly for transferring and also services such as prepaid load. In order to spend bitcoin, it is often converted first to the bank before it you can spend anything with it which is clearly not a direct usage for spending since it is not yet directly acceptable to stores or any sort of merchandise.
That is because bitcoin is not that popular in other country and so its not yet widely use. Other business are still doubtful about bitcoin but when the government will start legalizing bitcoin then we can see a lot of business that will take bitcoin as a payment.