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As a side note, I went into a CAM International Asian grocery store in my search and the place was absolutely spectacular. Every kind of every food or ingredient was in the place. I'd equate it to one of us walking through the Farm Extravaganza thing coming up in Kentucky. Where do you begin? It was so great I'd suggest going through a big Asian grocery store that is clean and well stocked just for a lookee-see.
Don't expect this kind of quality reporting when the weather warms up.
There are two Asian grocery stores I go to from time to time. I really need to go back because we are out of the orange sauce and we need more soy sauce. :shocked::laughing::laughing::laughing:
The orange sauce I would buy is the same stuff the Sushi guys were putting out for the spring rolls. In a good Asian market you can buy almost everything you would see at a Sushi restaurant which is kinda scary if you think about it. Filet shrimp, frozen fish, BBQ eel, etc. :licking:
One advantage we have in going to the Asian grocery store, is that while the label might be in Chinese, Japanese, Thai, etc., the nutrition and ingredients have to be in English! I was once in the larger market and there were dozens and dozens of people in the store but I was the only white guy. :laughing::laughing::laughing: I was on the sauce aisle, which is HUGE, looking for a few things. I knew what ingredients should be in the sauce so I was just reading the labels because I sure could not read anything else! :laughing::laughing::laughing: Another white guy walked up to me, said it looked like I knew what I was doing, yeah right, :laughing::laughing::laughing: and asked if I knew were a sauce was located. :shocked: The sad thing was I DID know since I had just seen that sauce! :laughing::laughing::laughing: A few minutes later another white guy came in and asked for help! :laughing::laughing::laughing:
When we were in China we visited a large Chinese Walmart type chain store that was just down the street from the gate to Macau. This place was amazing and made any US market I have seen, Asian or otherwise, look pathetic. The amount of fresh veggies, fruit, meat and fish they had in stock was unreal. The fish and turtles were all alive, just pick what you want out of the tank and it is yours. Our local Asian market does this as well but the store in China just has so much more food. Even the deli section was huge. I think you could eat at that place each day for a month before repeating a meal. What really surprised me was the bakery was huge as well and they even had fresh baked Croissants! This store was packed with people and for good reason. We walked to the other end of the street, about a mile or two, to go to a Walmart. I kid you not!
The Walmart looked just like a US Walmart, even smelled the same, :shocked: but it had far more employees in the store and the shelves were NEAT. But there were no where near the number people in Walmart compared to the other store though we did talk to a US couple that were in China teaching English.
Going to an Asian market is fun. Everyone should do it!
Later,
Dan
