What are your favourite things to buy from asian supermarkets?

Japanese:

Kombu, wakame, nori, katsuobushi, mirin, big containers of Yamasa soy sauce, curry blocks and instant curry, canned coffee, barley tea, and rice crackers.

Korean:

Cheetos, corn silk tea, and pic related.

Korean cheetos?

Fresh produce. They've got all kinds of veggies you can't get anywhere else, and it's generally higher quality and fresher than you'd get from anywhere but a farmer's market.

The ones I've tried are almost sweet, very different from North American Cheetos.

>that pic
fuck you just hit me with some korea nostalgia hard, I used to get those all the time in this convenience store where I lived.

That stuff is really good, way better than any of the Japanese canned coffees I've tried. Starbucks is catching on to their design, wonder if it's any good.

cheap dumplings
baby bok choy
mushrooms you don't normally find in normal supermarkets
whole fish

all i buy at the one near me is soy products (paste, sauce, curd etc.) and noodles

the produce and meat there is generally TRASH

The regular things. You know, dried mushrooms, sake, kimchi, alligator feet...

fresh produce
the stumps of oyster mushrooms
localy grown fresh stumps , cheep too
i rarely see other white people there and when i do they are hipster duffuses

peanut oil
ginger
scallions
bean sprouts
soy sauce
oyster sauce
rice noodles
miso
chili bean paste
chili garlic sauce
various mushrooms
eggplant
tofu (dried and fresh)
lotus root
okra
various cabbages
whole chicken with the head and feet still on
coarse ground pork
fish/shellfish
bitter melon

Bulk spices.

I can get like two fucking pounds of for what I would pay for two ounces at a normal supermarket.

Sashimi (I live in a coastal city)

lmao it looks like an obese alligator

It's cheap because it's full of lead

bucket of kim chi. much better than the white people kim chi, plus i can get up to 2 gallons of it!

>when i do they are hipster duffuses

Idiot. You're the only white that shops at asian markets that isn't a "hipster," which means nothing, btw, you faggot. What an insufferably stupid meme that simply reflects ignorance.

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Japanese cheetos are also sweet. Probably the same throughout the region

Whole mackerel, I cut them up and use them for fishing bait.

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wat do with it

get out white boi

It's great on chicken, but my go to sandwich is:

two eggs over-medium. Remove from pan, apply a little bit of butter to hot pan, slap a slice of white bread down. add eggs atop slice. put a fair amount of sauce-- you don't want it dripping, but you want -some-. Flip bread, applying more butter if necessary. fry until golden brown, eat with coffee. would make it every day in korea and it was really quite tasty.

There is meat in the beak?

Do you know if you can buy cheap poppy seeds from the asian food market?

Ducks have tongues, user.

I got this and some porno movie called asian something or other

The first scene was a Vietnamese refrigerator riding a fat old man. The second was a high quality video of Billy Glide fucking Kina Kai. The last one was what looked like a home video of an over-the-hill asian woman masturbating with a vibrator in the same position for 30 minutes, couldn't even see the pussy.

Did you know Billy Glide died from getting bitten by a rattlesnake?

isn't that a goose though?

sounds like you made bulgogi french toast

it's better than your supermarket. that shit in the packets and bottles have been unsold for ages. my paprika had no flavor last time i bought some

>go to Asian market
>be the only white guy
>salesmen shouting out chinese and vietnamese
>everyone speaks broken english

tell me why it's worth the bother

I was pretty nervous the first time I went to the asian food store. I asked the lady where the tuna for sushi was and she opened one of the freezer doors and I pointed to some foul shit and asked if it was the tuna because I had no idea what it looked like and she laughed at me. I never buy fish fuck your tuna gook fuck sushi fuck food

these cunts

the fuck user did you buy it

It's cheap as fuck, at least where I live. Yes, I'm often the only white guy, and the other customers are mostly Chinese. They're brusque. Pregnant women have no qualms about pushing right by me, jostling old ladies out of their way. It's like a total free for all. I get a kick out of that. Totally a different set of social norms. But the real reason for going there is the price/quality ratio. The Chinese joints in my neighborhood don't source from the same distributors as the supermarkets, they have their own networks. The produce and poultry are incredibly fresh, the quality is high and the prices are low. I can get enough food to feed two people for a week for just over $20. A comparable haul at the supermarket would be around $35 or more. The Chinese are thrifty, and I'll go right along with that.

As for the broken English I just take that for granted. I've lived in immigrant neighborhoods most of my life. If I walked outside and didn't hear seven or eight different languages being spoken I'd wonder what was wrong. Everyfuckingday I hear Chinese, Polish, Spanish and Italian on my block, and I don't have to walk very far to hear Yiddish, Arabic, two or three South Asian languages, Russian and even Greek. Heavily accented broken English is a day to day thing for me. I barely notice it.

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Is that some kinda gochujang or something? I'm Korean and I've never seen that before.

One of my all time favorite snacks

Noodles.
Lots and lots of fucking noodles.

Chinese rice wine, sake (for homemade teriyaki sauce), douchi, tienmenjiang, doubanjiang, soy sauce of various types, noodles (various), duck eggs, live crabs, chicken feet and bones for making stock, Thai and Viet herbs, curry leaves, garlic chives, lotus root, thai chilies, galangal, kabocha, shichimi togarashi, seaweed sheets, dried shiitakes, various fresh mushrooms, stockfish, dried scallops, sesame oil, rice vinegar, black vinegar, wasabi peas, shrimp chips, rice.

Go to a Japanese place, they'll have sashimi-grade frozen fish.

Nobody tell him how to render the succulent beak meat

yeah kind of, but it doesn't taste as sweet as bulgogi sauce. Everything works together really well, especially the butter-fried toast.

here's a really fucking horrible picture of it. it's just an egg sandwich with korean sauce on it I guess.
Sort of, but it's not as thick as gochujang. I've seen it sold under "bibigo" before, and while this is a re-labeled version for sale in the US it's the same shit you could buy in korea.
amazon.com/bibigo-Korean-Sauce-Spicy-16-9-Ounce/dp/B006NWGF2G/ref=sr_1_6_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1497398932&sr=8-6&keywords=bibigo&th=1

don't pay that stupid ass price for it though, I can get a 22 oz bottle at my korean grocery store in seattle for $6. give it a try if you ever see it.

Sensual massages.

fuel fleas are more likely.

kombu/dashima
makgeolli (rice wine)
lotus root
mushrooms
different types of soy sauce
different types of chili pastes/powders/products
kimchi
crown daisy
beef tongue
pork belly/bones
natto
tea (yuzu, persimmon leaf, burdock root, date)

>be the only white guy
there's a lot of older white guys that visit the asian mart near me, actually.
it's cheaper to get a lot of things from asian marts. some produce, frozen fish & meats.

This stuff.

This, along with Yan Yan and shrimp chips. Pocky's overpriced for what you get compared to Yan Yan.

Yes, and boy let me tell you, is it hard to find fitting shoes now!

so like stuff you get at a regular store