We were in the Bay area many months, 2010-2022--visiting daughter Rebecca, grand-parenting Penelope, basing ourselves for western travels, locking-down for COVID--and never found an Asian market we liked. There was a small one near Santa Cruz Avenue in Menlo Park--it had everything--but then it closed by 2014 or so. We never found anything else that had the array of SE Asian ingredients we wanted. I even resorted to pinching kaffir lime leaves from the local nursery. But in Cary, Rebecca alerted us to the H-Mart, a mile from us, which turned out to be absolutely the largest Asian market we have yet encountered in the US. It even had kaffir lime leaves, although pretty browned and spoiled, but it was still an experience to behold here in NC. Turns out it is part of a South Korean chain, which explains its emphasis on Korean, Japanese and Taiwanese products...and its relative lack of emphasis on Indian, SE Asian, and actual Chinese products. Nonetheless, it was by far the best Asian market we've seen outside of Asia. And not without its curiosities and other items of interest.
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| Gotta have durian, even frozen; sine qua non |
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| Enormous produce section |
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| Sugar cane |
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| Banana leaves! |
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| Jujubes |
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| Cow parts |
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| Shhh...be vewy, vewy quiet... |
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| Assorted bloods |
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Pork uterus...pork bung...stir-fry, sure, but the wine
pairing could be tricky...
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Excellent source of potassium; does not taste like
chicken |
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| Long aisle of cooking utensils, apparati |
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| Entire aisle of seaweeds |
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| Yum |
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| Gotta try this |
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| Gift boxes of dried anchovies |
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| More seafood than probably all the Teeters of Raleigh combined... |
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Sorry, didn't see much there that looked appetizing to me.
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