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Monster©
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 3192
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, May 14, 2006 - 4:45 pm: | 
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I was driving home down Rt. 22 yesterday, when I saw the market on the other side and thought , "oh yeah I need some more Sriracha Hot Chili Sauce, I bet they have some", so I made the next available u-turn.
This was my first time in the store, I only went for the hot sauce, but I ended up walking out of the store with more, I picked up some candied ginger, Poki Sticks, shrimp flavored chips, Yan Yan dipping biscuits, pineapple shortcake crackers, lemon gummy candy, BBQ flavored cracker nuts, super lemon candy, fried banana slices, frozen pork dumplings, dumpling sauces, red bean curd buns, a couple packages of spicy hot pork ramen noodles, hot & sour soup mixes, straw mushrooms, tom yum noodles, hot & spicy bamboo shoots, hot & spicy gooseberries, a paper umbrella, and a couple of other things too.
As it turns out, when you spend so much money they have daily specials, you either get something for free, or cheap, I got a gallon of milk for a buck.
The next time I go I'll go there to shop, and have a better idea of what I want, they have large tanks filled with live fish, crabs, & lobster, lots of shrimp, fish balls, etc.
You can pick up whole roasted duck, chicken, and roasted pig too, maybe not the whole pig though, and you can order food to to go, instead of going home and ordering delivery.
I had a lot of fun just looking at some of the packaging, and types of food available. I only filled up a hand basket, but I was there for at least and hour and a half, maybe more. |
Mayor McCheese
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Username: Mayor_mccheese
Post Number: 1430
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, May 14, 2006 - 4:55 pm: |
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But who paid you to post this? |
kmk
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Username: Kmk
Post Number: 1246
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, May 14, 2006 - 5:01 pm: |
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Isn't it "Asian Food Center" (or "AFC" to those of us who go often)?
Or is it someplce new?!
I now use Kam Man more often because I frequently find myself out that direction (Route 10) while I avoid Route 22. |
Joanne G
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Username: Joanne
Post Number: 118
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, May 14, 2006 - 5:13 pm: |
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I miss shopping in those places - we have them in cities I used to live like Melbourne, Brisbane and of course on the Gold Coast but not here. Aren't they fun? I love the selections of spices, of teas, of soaps, the colours and textures of kids' clothes and shoes. Because of my food allergies I find the choices available in Asian markets are wider for me than in conventional Australian markets: so many rice foods, bean curd foods, mushroom foods, cabbage/lettuce foods...
And then there's coming home and experimenting with new ways of preparing food and serving food and sharing the happiness with friends and family...
Monster, what's the most favourite thing you got there this week? |
Monster©
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 3193
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, May 14, 2006 - 5:57 pm: |
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Nobody paid me Mayor.
kmk, it's called "Asian Food Markets", it's located at 965 Rt. 22 West
North Plainfield.
It's open Sun-Thur, 10am-8pm, and Fri-Sat, 10am-8:30pm
there are also stores in Edison on Rt. 27, and in Middletown on Highway 35.
Joanne, I think my most favorite would have to be the Sriracha hot sauces, haven't tried the one with lemon grass in yet, and the hot & spicy bamboo shoots, the kids loved the candy.
When I go back I'm thinking of picking up a can of soft shelled turtle soup, the picture on the can shows a turtle in a bowl of soup, is there actually a turtle in the can, I have to get it, if just for the picture on the label. |
justmelaura
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Username: Justmelaura
Post Number: 545
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, May 14, 2006 - 10:43 pm: |
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Monster
I shop there often. I actually have a "RT 22 must hits" that ends up near Warren. I usually go on Wed. Love to take you on the tour sometime. (Have given up my Rt 10 detours awhile ago) |
shasta
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Username: Shashalagoumba
Post Number: 93
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, May 14, 2006 - 11:58 pm: |
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I totally believe you, Monster! I'M CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAzy, too! Thanks for the tip! |
Monster©
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 3194
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Monday, May 15, 2006 - 12:08 am: |
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CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAzy
Laura, sounds like fun, WOOHOO! |
The Soulful Mr T
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Username: Howardt
Post Number: 1930
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Monday, May 15, 2006 - 12:12 am: |
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Mayor McCheese
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Username: Mayor_mccheese
Post Number: 1435
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Monday, May 15, 2006 - 12:18 am: |
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I agree Mr. T.
Time for someone to liven up this thread. |
Joanne G
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Username: Joanne
Post Number: 120
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Monday, May 15, 2006 - 12:52 am: |
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Monster, when you've tried the turtle egg soup, please let me know what it's like - I've always wondered and have never been game enough to! My usual healthy food store has the same cans so I could get it easily, just don't have the courage (also, I guess it's not kosher.... The hot and spicy bamboo shoots also sound yummy... |
Monster©
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 3195
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Monday, May 15, 2006 - 1:26 am: |
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What eggs?
It's soft shell turtle soup, you mean there's eggs in it?
Dang, oh well, I'll let you know, any ideas as to what goes well with turtle?
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Mayor McCheese
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Username: Mayor_mccheese
Post Number: 1439
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Monday, May 15, 2006 - 2:58 am: |
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Rat?
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combustion
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Username: Spontaneous
Post Number: 36
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Monday, May 15, 2006 - 3:14 am: |
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Monster, were the red bean curd buns good? I'm trying to get "someone" to try them but he's turned of by the thought of eating something with the word "curd" in it's name. If he sees this he'll know who he is. |
Hamandeggs
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Username: Hamandeggs
Post Number: 286
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Monday, May 15, 2006 - 5:48 am: |
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Do they have curry leaves? |
Joanne G
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Username: Joanne
Post Number: 121
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Monday, May 15, 2006 - 7:27 am: |
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*blush* I've always remembered it as soft turtle 'egg' soup, not soft shell turtle soup!!!!! I think there may be an egg or two on the label pic as well as the turtle. In my defence, I do have an acquired brain injury that affects information recall however that is really no excuse when I had just read your post (illcitly, on a colleague's monitor)!
We are talking about the same food item - please let me know what it tastes like when you get courage to try it. |
Monster©
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 3197
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Monday, May 15, 2006 - 12:04 pm: |
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Combustion, the buns are in the freezer still, I'm going to try them later today.
Hamandeggs, while I didn't see curry leaves specifically, I did see curry this and curry that.
Joanne, I hear that Soft Shelled Turtle Soup is supposed to be one of those things that's good for your health, like chicken soup.
So is your colleague reading MOL too, or did you hijack the computer for your illicitness, or are you illicit together?
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kmk
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Username: Kmk
Post Number: 1248
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, May 15, 2006 - 1:24 pm: |
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I have a Kaffir Lime tree growing in a pot here at my house because it is always so hard to find the Lime leaves for Thai cooking. I wonder if you can do the same thing for "curry" leaves?
If anyone sees galangal (preferably fresh and whole, not sliced and frozen) let me know.
I have run out of it and it is tough to find.
Combustion - we just call them "Red Bean Buns". No need to mention curds! |
Monster©
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 3198
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Monday, May 15, 2006 - 2:18 pm: |
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I believe I may have seen galangal there. |
stefano
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Username: Stefano
Post Number: 503
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Monday, May 15, 2006 - 2:24 pm: |
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Galangal is a stimulating aromatic, and has been successfully employed to aid the digestive process, preventing fermentation and removing flatus. It will be found especially useful in some forms of dyspepsia, preventing vomiting or sickness of the stomach, and facilitating digestion. It may be used in all cases in which a stimulating aromatic is indicated. It has some reputation as a remedy for perineal relaxation with hemorrhoids, and for a lax and pendulous abdomen.
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Hank Zona
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Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 5580
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Monday, May 15, 2006 - 2:38 pm: |
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Dr. Stefano...
Would it therefore be best as an ingredient in Library Lady's Matzoh Charlotte or would you suggest taking it immediately after consuming the Matzoh Charlotte?
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Joanne G
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Username: Joanne
Post Number: 124
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Monday, May 15, 2006 - 4:31 pm: |
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Why do you have the best conversations when I am asleep????? Sounds like I have to develop a taste for galangal (I hate the stuff and usually substitute lemon peel for my astringents); as resident male has 'lax and pendulous abdomen' this may be a useful addition to our medicinal pantry.
Monster & Stefano, we use the medicinal dried Chinese mandarin/orange peel in chicken soup when we have colds and flu - a trick I learnt from a friend who is 7th generation Australian from Scots/Irish/goldfields Chinese and Japanese forebears. I'd love to get the teeny black lozenge 'seeds' you suck to get rid of coughs too, if I knew what they are called but can't remember their name and haven't seen her for 20 years (I married and moved interstate; she married and moved away). You suck three of these Japanese things the size of sesame seeds and don't get your fullblown illness, but it's best for throat and chest illness. If you happen to find the name of those things, I'll love you forever - and I've said that in front of witnesses!!!
Monster, I was so naughty - I was sitting at reception while my colleague ran out to buy milk for afternoon tea. Snuck onto MOL and just had time for one posting, then she came back so I 'fessed up (she is also our IT go-to person and watches our online use). I work at two not-for-profits and just don't feel right stealing their IT time; it isn't ethical and it isn't work related usually so I try VERY HARD to ration myself to participating from home. And that's why I'm mainly a lurker - because my at-home time is usually when most of you are sleeping or doing offline stuff.  |
Lou
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Username: Flf
Post Number: 154
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Monday, May 15, 2006 - 4:33 pm: |
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is the AFM on 22 west or east?
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Monster©
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 3206
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Monday, May 15, 2006 - 4:49 pm: |
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Joanne, that dried Chinese mandarin/orange peel chicken soup sounds good.
Would those little black things you are referring to be seeds from the Star Anise perhaps, which actually isn't Anise, but the flavor resembles it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_anise
I found the below excerpt interesting, it's from the Wiki page linked above.
Quote:...Although it is produced in most autotrophic organisms, star anise is the industrial source of shikimic acid, a primary ingredient used to create the anti-flu drug Tamiflu. Tamiflu is regarded as the most promising drug to mitigate the severity of bird flu (H5N1); however, reports indicate that some forms of the virus have already adapted to Tamiflu.
A shortage of star anise is one of the key reasons why there is a worldwide shortage of Tamiflu (as of 2005). Star anise is grown in four provinces in China and harvested between March and May. The shikimic acid is extracted from the seeds in a ten-stage manufacturing process which takes a year. Reports say 90% of the harvest is already used by the Swiss pharmaceutical manufacturer Roche in making Tamiflu, but other reports say there is an abundance of the spice in the main regions - Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan.
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Monster©
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 3207
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Monday, May 15, 2006 - 4:50 pm: |
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Lou, the AFM is on West 22, in North Plainfield |
Joanne G
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Username: Joanne
Post Number: 126
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Monday, May 15, 2006 - 6:33 pm: |
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I cook with star anise and the seeds are bigger and the wrong shape and colour for the things I mean. They're like the old French breath-freshener 'seeds' my mum used in the 60s - teeny teeny poppy-seed round and black; taken two or three at a time and you only about a day's dose to be good for about a month. I gather the things I mean are a traditional Japanese herbal medicine - and of course we only have a Chinese herbalist in this region...
When you use the Chinese orange peel in your chicken soup, be sure to remove it before serving! It makes your soup sour and is meant to provoke a sweat, to help control fever. |
Joanne G
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Username: Joanne
Post Number: 127
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Monday, May 15, 2006 - 7:08 pm: |
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Monster, you got me thinking about wikipedia so I started flicking through various articles until I hit on Japanese honeysuckle:
"The Japanese honeysuckle flower is of high medicinal value in Traditional Chinese Medicine. It has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties, and is used to dispel heat and remove toxins, including carbuncles, fevers, influenza and ulcers. It is, however, of cold and yin nature, and should not be taken by anyone with weak and "cold" digestive system."
Yes! the seeds would look right!!! There's probably a Japanese or Chinese name I wouldn't recognise, but it seems to make sense! So, if you could check next time you're in your market whether they stock a medicine with this major ingredient and what its name is, I would appreciate knowing please. Lisa would get it off the shelf rather than prescribed so I should be right. |
Monster©
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 3210
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Monday, May 15, 2006 - 9:23 pm: |
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you got it Joanne |
Mayor McCheese
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Username: Mayor_mccheese
Post Number: 1452
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 16, 2006 - 2:26 am: |
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Now for the true test; Do they sell cat at this store? |
Monster©
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 3214
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 16, 2006 - 1:10 pm: |
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maybe out of the back room, dog too.... |
Mayor McCheese
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Username: Mayor_mccheese
Post Number: 1458
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 16, 2006 - 1:11 pm: |
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It is probably also in your soup. MMM... dog. |
Scully
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Username: Scully
Post Number: 474
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - 9:57 am: |
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So how's that any different from cow or fish or any other
living flesh? |
Monster©
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 3228
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - 11:31 am: |
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Last night I opened the bag of shrimp flavored chips, they are shaped like Andy Capp's Fries, very strong fish aroma hit me upon opening the bag. The chips are tasty, I found that you have to eat more than one at a time to get a shrimpy/fishy taste, not bad, not bad at all.
I posted pics of the rice cake over here. |
Joanne G
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Username: Joanne
Post Number: 133
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - 5:25 pm: |
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My Mandarin teacher makes that rice cake!!! Oh, I've forgotten the name....she comes from Taiwan if that's any help. She makes it from scratch, it's meant to be fairly bland and you eat it cold or warmed slightly. To warm you can steam it and then top with savoury flavours (cooked veg, bits of other dishes, soups) or sauces; you can chunk it into other dishes or soups; you can fry chunks or wedges; or you can toast chunks or wedges. If you do either of the last two (fry or toast) try drizzling a teeny smidgin of sesame oil over it while warm - I dare you not to gobble it almost instantly! You can also dunk it in bite size bits in a wasabi/soy mix, or dredge lightly in sushi-salad seasoning (with the crumbled nori and black sesame seeds). Yum!!!!! Keep the chips - I'll nibble on the rice cake! (with sips of slivovitz)
Oh damn - now you've made late for work again! |
Monster©
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 3232
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - 7:03 pm: |
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First, let me apologize for making you late to work
Second, thanks for the ideas on how to enjoy the rest of it, I see a frying pan, rice cake, & sesame oil in my future. |
Joanne G
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Username: Joanne
Post Number: 134
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - 8:16 pm: |
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And now you're making me hungry - and late for morning coffee break!!! |
Monster©
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 3237
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - 9:31 pm: |
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2 MOL'ers passing in the.... |
Joanne G
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Username: Joanne
Post Number: 135
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, May 18, 2006 - 3:55 am: |
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And now I am SOOOO embarrassed....popped into the closest we have to an Asian food market in this town to check on the turtle soup cans - and it's QUAIL EGGS!!!
Going home for dinner now (it's almost 6pm), collecting Malaysian tae-away (you'd say 'take-out') on the way... |
Dave
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Username: Dave
Post Number: 9626
Registered: 4-1997
| | Posted on Sunday, May 28, 2006 - 12:44 pm: |
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Just back from a trip to this place. Bigger, but not as good as Kam Man on Rt. 10 in terms of freshness of fruit/veggies. |
Monster©
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 3376
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, May 28, 2006 - 2:35 pm: |
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So, whatya' get, whatya' get? |
tom
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Username: Tom
Post Number: 5034
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, May 29, 2006 - 4:02 pm: |
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I checked it out today, big fun. Got frozen potstickers, lots of cup-of-noodle things for the kids, Thai basil, a big bag of baby bok choi, rice wine and rice vinegar. Other basics.
There were a lot of dead fish in the tanks, but I guess that's Monday for you.
Today's freebie was sticky rice wrapped up in a banana leaf. |
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