what are your favourite things to buy from asian supermarkets?

>>9043441
Rice, fish sauce, whole pork bellies ($2.99/lb), bulk soy sauce, squid, octopus, sometimes fish if it's fresh ocean wildcaught (not Tilapia or Viet shit), wasabi. I grow most of my own vegetables so the only produce is mushrooms.

>>9043441
Asians, obviously

>>9043441
durian... shit is cash

Food, snacks, drinks, condiments, spices, cooking ingredients. pretty far out stuff

if I go to the big asian mall near me I sometimes pick up some fresh baked goods in the little bakery there, some incense, and anime tiddie stuff

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>>9043441
Purple sweet potatoes and pic related sauce, fell in love with it when I lived in Seoul and now I always have some

good rice wine vinegar

Pocky sticks

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>>9043441
duck heads

rice paper wraps for summer rolls
thin sliced bulgogi beef
the yellow/tan or purple sweet potatoes
seaweed chips
kimchi
fermented black beans/black bean paste
udon noodles
mushrooms
ramen noodles of all sorts
salted duck egg

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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.

>>9043623

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.

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>>9043630
The ones I've tried are almost sweet, very different from North American Cheetos.

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>>9043623
>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.

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>>9043639
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.

>>9043441
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

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

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>>9043441
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

>>9043441
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

>>9043441

Bulk spices.

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

>>9043441

Sashimi (I live in a coastal city)

>>9043736
lmao it looks like an obese alligator

>>9043854
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!

>>9043736
>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.

>>9043638
Japanese cheetos are also sweet. Probably the same throughout the region

>>9043441
Whole mackerel, I cut them up and use them for fishing bait.

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>>9043441

>>9043552
wat do with it

>>9044349
get out white boi

>>9044352
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.

>>9043589
There is meat in the beak?

>>9043854
Do you know if you can buy cheap poppy seeds from the asian food market?

>>9044615
Ducks have tongues, anon.

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>>9043441
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?

>>9043589
isn't that a goose though?

>>9044558
sounds like you made bulgogi french toast

>>9044018
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

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>>9043748
>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

>>9044759
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

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these cunts

>>9043702
the fuck anon did you buy it

>>9044759
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.

>>9043441
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>>9043552
Is that some kinda gochujang or something? I'm Korean and I've never seen that before.

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One of my all time favorite snacks

>>9043441
Noodles.
Lots and lots of fucking noodles.

>>9043441
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.

>>9044874
Go to a Japanese place, they'll have sashimi-grade frozen fish.

>>9044615
Nobody tell him how to render the succulent beak meat

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>>9044737
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.
>>9045643
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.
https://www.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.

>>9044018

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)

>>9044759
>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.

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>>9043441
This stuff.

>>9044878
This, along with Yan Yan and shrimp chips. Pocky's overpriced for what you get compared to Yan Yan.

>>9044882
Yes, and boy let me tell you, is it hard to find fitting shoes now!

>>9043550
so like stuff you get at a regular store