East Asia Market (123 Good Days in Tacoma)
Last night I went shopping for my favorite convenience food: Aroy-D red curry in a can. This is the ingredient list: coconut milk, water, chilli oil, red curry paste, basil, sugar, salt, pumpkin. That's it! The curry's cooked up already and good to go. Just cook some of whatever you're having with it, pour the curry over it, and wait for it to heat up again. I like chicken and veggies, but tofu or shrimp would work just as well. (Back in my long ago vegetarian days I'd have frozen the tofu first, then thawed it to give it a texture that would hold up.) Where do you get this red curry fabulousness, and his friends Mussaman and Green Curry? the East Asia Market on S 38th, for 1.49 a can.
I mentioned this place way back in the first week of this project, but it deserves its own entry. East Asia Market is a large grocery store in the Lincoln District, specializing in Vietnamese, Thai, Chinese, Japanese and other Asian goods. They have amazingly low prices, particularly on fresh herbs and vegetables. Right now there's a wall of different types of basil, in huge bunches, for $1.00 each. This is also the place to go for rice noodles, specialty flours, and soup bases that cost a fortune in conventional grocery stores.
Their freezer section is loaded with all sorts of finger foods, such as red bean, pork, custard, and lotus buns, limpia, shu mei (dumplings), and other interesting goodies. The market also sells all the wrappers and ingredients you'd need to make your own versions. They've also got a fun assortment of candy and deserts.
East Asia Market
755 S 38th St
Tacoma, WA 98418
253-473-3799
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, September 09 2007 @ 09:42 AM PDT
I love the East Asia mart. They have cases of Asian mangoes (the ones that never turn red) in the summer for $10. They have barbecued ducklings for $13 and uncooked also; great meat market with the leanest ground beef I've ever seen, excellent pork and chicken, oysters and shrimp and as many unusual fish as you have ever seen, yummy Asian desserts like these golden brown chewy bars made with coconut milk, sesame seeds, sticky rice, and brown sugar topped with grated coconut. Good prices on lemongrass, cilantro, peeled garlic, fresh shitake mushrooms and other kinds, sweet peppers, Chaokoh coconut milk often on sale for 50 cents a can (regular groc. stores charge $1.50), sambal oleck and sweet chili sauce, those wonderful large flat rice noodles you get in Pad See Yeu and the rice wrappers for making your own fresh spring rolls-- I love this place!
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