What's the best things to get at an asian grocery store?

fish
cooking ingridients
pasta
rice

how do these places get away with selling fish for so cheap

>Believing you're actually getting "fish"

Oh sweaty

sometimes is unregulated or half rotten
If you are lucky enough to liv close to one and go there in the early morning you get to see the trucks deliver shitloads of fish and crabs

i went to one today and i just saw them bring out a whole trash can full of giant crabs and put them into the tanks

surreal

green tea is $8 for a 5 oz bag and you can get the white 8oz for $3

>What's the best things to get at an asian grocery store?
any homemade kimchee someone on staff makes, especially scallion kimchee
any cold produce they have in cooler like long beans, lychee or longan, fresh banana leaves, keffir lime, homemade doughs or wrappers
unique vinegars or chili seasonings like filipino coconut vinegar, or chili paste that isn't garlic centered,
fried garlic or fried shallots in the big canister are good for topping soups and rice bowls
rice wrappers for summer rolls, other pastas that interest you like soba noodles
fruit jellies like lychee cups, boba balls for making bubble tea, powders for same like honeydew or jasmine tea "litchee tea" is pretty cheap in that red/gold canister if you like loose tea. It makes a great pitcher of iced tea for boba too
you might enjoy checking out an ice cream or popsicle selection for a good tropical flavor
sometimes there are interest chips like shrimp flavors or dried cuttle if that is your thing. occasionally that pine scented "pandanus" is there, or some weird sodas or drink mixes
any japanese or other candies that look yummy. Milkitea, Lion noisy, kasugai, any kind of kitkats

Certain ingredients that are tougher to find, like uncommon spices or noodles. Sometimes I get a craving for a red bean bun or milk candies, though Asian sweets are very very sweet.

Cheap soy sauce and sesame oil
Cheap buns and dumplings
Baby bok Choy
Good packs of ramen
Mochi
Won ton wrappers for making ravioli

It's class 3 stuff. It looks weird and isn't pretty, but it's the same quality.

in my experience they're not as sweet but they have more flavors as american stuff

These dried mushrooms are great to have for soups and topping rice/couscous/other grains with them. I'm too lazy to find my camera, so I just scanned the bag.

its hard to go wrong with stir frying them

Scanned again with a weight on top so it came out clearer.

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these taste really wierd to me but i can quite put my finger on it

>fish
>at a Asian market
Miss me with this shit. I don't want slimy fish smelling like death and have cataracts.

Shrimp Chips.
I got em in Philly Chinatown, shit was delicious.
Drinks Wise, what else but Ramune?

I agree with dank produce(daikon, bean sprouts, bamboo, dragonfruit, rambutan), homemade kimchi for sure, chili oil, gyoza, awesome tea(i wont even start), dango or mochi, alcohol(nigori sake, plum wine, rice spirits), cool noodles(i like matcha soba, zaru soba or thai rice flake noodles), dank rice in bulk(jasmine, brown, bhasmati), dried lentils, miso paste, amazing selection of ramen, cool spices(turmeric, curry powders, cardamom)

In my experience also asian sweets are much less sweet/indulgent than what is considered dessert in most western countries, adzuki bean and mugwort mochi, peanut snacks, ginger stuff, slightly sweetened glutinous rice in everything

Lol why the fuck wouldn't you just take a photo of them?!?

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dumplings, exotic produce, rice/beet noodles, various sauces and seasonings, seaweed, tea, etc

Stole these from my Chinese roommate since she would steal snacks from me behind me. Need to know what these are named, there pretty good. There were crackers with some seasoning on them, I'd say msg crackers. Help finding them?

these tasty cunts

旺旺: "wangwang" ("prosperous")
仙貝: "Rice crackers"
坚持做好品质: "Upholding good quality"
非油炸: "Very deep fried"

Great faggot

Probably some kind of rice cracker. Do they look like these? Its p good

Those are rat poison tablets!

Gotta be the ucc

>baby bok choy
I love them
Why the fuck don't they sell them everywhere?
They are so much better and easier than the giant ones they sell most places.

baby bok choy and a giant bag of fresh crunchy bean sprouts
rice and/or bean noodles
and some oyster sauce

Kinda, it was one thick cracker per packet and it was rectangular with the edges rounded.

Why cant i fucking find glutinous rice at super king?

MSG powder.

>jasmine rice at $1.29 per lb
>2 lbs
>somehow $18

was it one of those pre-packaged 15 pound bags?

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People like you are why I still come here

Preserved plums, pickled ginger, Milky, Choco-baby, (Can't remember the name of the best brand) rice crackers, Rose brand fortune cookies, brown/toasted/roasted rice tea, mochi of various kinds, Chinese egg noodles, durian, star fruit, lumpia wrappers, daikon... The list is pretty long.

so sweaty.....

CHEAP AS FUCK WASABI PEAS NIGGA

White rabbit candy

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Interesting, maybe I meant more that the flavors are rich enough that just a small amount is plenty. I guess I don't eat many American sweets either because I think they're too sweet so maybe I'm the one with the problem lol.

Can we agree that Indian sweets are the sweetest?

I think it's the carrots at that price

Youre right about a little being enough, i think that japanese sweets are tastefully constructed as to not rely upon sweetness or decadence. As for indian sweets, ive only had jalebi and bhadami sheera, the latter of which is pretty sweet sometimes but maybe my favorite dessert in the world. I do consider jalebi a greasy indulgent confectionary mess, pretty good though and definitely interesting to try.

bougie ramen

Arsenic and lead poisoning.

>big asian store has restaurant inside
>3 gooks, 3 massive woks, 3 maassive burners
>get to sit down and watch them make wathever you order like pros
>price is cheap as fuck
>they have more options thanthe average retaurant
only shitty part is all the gooks walking by and pushing you to get to the pgs feet section

Doriyaki

Buy all of the dessert.

amazon.com/Japanese-Doraemon-Dorayaki-Pancake-4-86oz/dp/B017LCIRFO

wasabi peas, lychee pudding/ soft drinks, korean pocky(with sprinkled hazelnut exterior), japanese potato chips, taiwanese cup noodles....

the list is humongus.... but i'm just putting out a few provided your gook shop sells the listed items

>moon cake
These can get real pricy.

Calpis, it's almost like a sweet yoghurt drink, top stuff.

You can get a giant ass bag of Korean pine nuts for a decent price compared to the outrageous amount a tiny jar costs at the store. They are are the same exact nut so you can make authentic pesto for cheap.

Some general tips for buying at Asian markets;
>always check the back of the products to find out where they are actually manufactured/processed, it will always tell you where the contents originated even if it uses another country as a distributed
>best quality is always from Japan origin
>next best is Korea or Singapore origin, sometimes the quality can be bad but its usually at least decent/safe
>more of gamble but doable: Taiwan/Hong Kong origin
>avoid unless you seek an early death: China, Vietnam, or anywhere else in Asia
>ALWAYS ALWAYS check expiration, and if it doesn't have one you can understand don't buy it. Asian markets are super chinky about selling expired shit and they will outright lie to you if you call them out on it
Produce is also a gamble, on the one had it might be your only option for certain ingredients at a decent price, but they also tend to sit around forever and not be stored with proper care. bulk rice is always the big ticket item, because it stores well and the store pays for its shipping and a lot of times will sell it almost at-cost to get asians to come in regularly. I'm partial to short-grain Japanese rice myself, don't be afraid of it being grown in Cali as long as its marketed towards the Japanese. Its like the same exact variety that they grow over there and better priced.

Any recommendations on loose leaf tea? The less acidic the better

>What's the best things to get at an asian grocery store?
A qt Asian girl, especially if you're white since they worship big white cocks.

do they sell lifeguard in asian stores?

We could be great roommates. Fuck yeah that list.

Also Sichuan peppercorns

Green tea isn't all that acidic but it is bitter/astringent. I think the deep steamed "fukamushi" style green tea has the most depth and umami and less acidity.

one? You're getting ripped off, they used to be packed 2 a packet. They're shaped like an 8, lucky chinese number

>Hot food area about mid day, any of their dim sum/hot foods for peak freshness (lunch rush), at the end of the night, not so fresh but such a bargain at like half price.

>hello panda cookies/biscuits

>lap xuong (Chinese sausage, makes for dirt cheap meals for the best price, rice cooker meals for literally less than $5 a day if even)

> Chinese broccoli/baby bok choy and most other greens

>weird ass yogurt drinks and calpico

There used to be an Asian grocery store in my neighborhood back when I was a wee lad.

They had take-out Hong Shao Rou and the freshest bread I ever had, it was so crunchy on the outside and soft and fluffy on the inside

And don't get me started on the Hong Shao Rou, it was so sticky and sweet and tender. I'm salivating just thinking about.

btw those Hello Panda cookies are GOAT.

That's the carrots. It was 25 lbs of rice.

white rabbits are the GOAT

asian girls who are in there.

can't go wrong with indomie

>Sichuan
It's szechuan you fucking inbred.

THIS. Indomie Mi Goreng is top-shelf instant ramen.

In standard hanyu pinyin it is Sichuan. You could argue it's fine to use "Szechuan" but you're wrong to try correcting it.

Both are valid, Szechuan is the more old fashioned way of romanising it.

>rambutan
mah nigga

This guy knows. Best thing to buy is canned coffee. Went into an authentic Asian market a year or two ago in search of canned coffee and holy shit did the whole place ever stink of bad fish.

Every time I go in mine there's a lingering scent of cigarette smoke. It's a big store so I figure people smoke in the back

W-what are they hitting with the rubber mallet then?

I really hope you gwai los dont actually eat the entire thing

the 非 means 'without' or 'to not be', not 'very'

Japanese curry

Ginger sweets

Mochi balls. Try all of them. Personally, I like those with the bean paste.

Yes. Ginger sweets are awesome.

They are fucking expensive though, and only the most expensive are any good
I want to start making red bean mochi myself but I'm lazy

I love picking these little bundles of delicious up.

Whenever you go to a asian grocery store you can use the Google Translate app on a smartphone, just take a photo with the app and it will translate it.

support.google.com/translate/answer/6142483

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desu its a great chance to learn some chinese and japanese, I can read half of all labels now and it makes shopping in there a breeze, skip the google translate except to get you started

Agreed on milk candy, cheap buns, frozen dumplings, instant ramen, and noodles (would recommend soba and frozen udon).
I know people go for the produce but I never know what to do with it either.
I like the bottled milk teas also, especially the Kirin brand.

Lots of the produce is either very simple or applicable to western cuisine. I tend to load up on eggplants which can just be used as eggplants or in baba ghanouj, bok choy for light pan-frying with garlic and ginger, cheap garlic and onions under half a buck a pound, and every few months a fresh Japanese radish to grate over steak.

I really like roasted eggplant but don't make it enough. Never thought of pan-frying bok choy but it would probably be bretty gud as a side. Thanks senpai.

you can buy those at Malaysian supermarkets

I always get those shrimp chips in the bag with white and pink stripes. Also if you like cocaine, asian markets usually sell little green seed pods marketed as "beetle nut" or "palm nut" and you essentially chew it with a filterless cigarrete and my FUCK it gets you high as balls. Cant feel my face on that shit