The Asian grocery stores that we frequent are Vietnamese owned. Most of the stuff is common. The big exception is that the various curry pastes are uniquely Thai. I prefer Thai curries to the ones from India. An exceptional appropriation made their own.
Our Vietnamese friends, like us, cook smelly Asian varieties of fish on the back porch…
The Asian grocery stores that we frequent are Vietnamese owned. Most of the stuff is common. The big exception is that the various curry pastes are uniquely Thai. I prefer Thai curries to the ones from India. An exceptional appropriation made their own.
Our Vietnamese friends, like us, cook smelly Asian varieties of fish on the back porch to not smell up the house. We have a two-burner propane camp stove for that. It's too cumbersome to do that for the hot peppers so our kitchen often seems to have received a visit from SWAT, but that dissipates more quickly than some of the fish varieties we cook. The Vietnamese markets are our fish markets.
I was crushed to learn that the grocery I shopped at twice a week for years, Viet Wah ("Vietnamese Chinese [people]") shut down a few years ago. When my partner moved in with me we went there and spent about $100 to stock the pantry.
The Asian grocery stores that we frequent are Vietnamese owned. Most of the stuff is common. The big exception is that the various curry pastes are uniquely Thai. I prefer Thai curries to the ones from India. An exceptional appropriation made their own.
Our Vietnamese friends, like us, cook smelly Asian varieties of fish on the back porch to not smell up the house. We have a two-burner propane camp stove for that. It's too cumbersome to do that for the hot peppers so our kitchen often seems to have received a visit from SWAT, but that dissipates more quickly than some of the fish varieties we cook. The Vietnamese markets are our fish markets.
I was crushed to learn that the grocery I shopped at twice a week for years, Viet Wah ("Vietnamese Chinese [people]") shut down a few years ago. When my partner moved in with me we went there and spent about $100 to stock the pantry.