While I was at the Korean grocery . . .

Post #296,704 by Andrew Grygus 12/2/07 9:37:43 PM Reply	While I was at the Korean grocery . . . . . I bought a bottle of "Korean style soy sauce" (Soybean, Salt, Water). The checkout girl tried to talk me out of it "Do you really want regular soy sauce? You know that's for soup?". Anyway, I can now report. This one is made by Soo Boc Food Manufacturing of Los Angeles (listed in the Korean Yellow Pages as a legitimate Korean owned firm). It is fairly light in taste, but veeeery salty. Definitely you wouldn't want to use it as "regular soy sauce". [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #296,706 by imqwerky 12/2/07 10:41:15 PM Reply	Glad to know that. There's a store right down the street from me called "Subzi Mandi". I think it is Vietnamese, but it might cater to wide variety of Asians. I am planning to go exploring there this coming week. We bought a very expensive piece of mahi-mahi at Central Market and I have learned that we can get the same fish for a better price at the ethnic stores. I'm out of Texmati Basmati rice, so it will be off to Taj Mahal Imports to get a huge-ass sack of aromatic rice. (We love that stuff, obviously!) Can't wait till I start finding cool stuff that you can only find here that you may covet ;0) What fun! Smile, Amy
Post #296,707 by Andrew Grygus 12/2/07 10:59:36 PM Reply	Aromatic Rice. I keep two varieties of long grained aromatic rice: aged Basmati (generally Royal brand, though Elephant and several others are just fine) and Jasmine (generally Baby Elephant brand - I'm not too hot on Goya products but that rice is good). Aged Basmati is veeery long grain but a bit dry for non-Indian dishes. Jasmine is a better all purpose rice in my opinion and I use it not only for Southeast Asian dishes but Chinese as well (well, so would the Chinese if they could afford it). For Japanese where you need a medium grain rice I prefer Kokuho Rose which I definitely prefer to Calrose. Now as to stuff you may have down there that I don't have here, I'm particularly interested in chilis that are not yet listed on my [link\|http://www.clovegarden.com/ingred/chili.html\|Chili Page]. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #296,709 by imqwerky 12/2/07 11:15:07 PM Reply	Chili Juanita! (new thread) Created as new thread #296708 titled [link\|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=296708\|Chili Juanita!] Smile, Amy
Post #296,710 by Another Scott 12/2/07 11:24:25 PM Reply	Basmati rice is amazing. One of the truly great foods. [link\|http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=006978452673906630972%3A_5xhnlvpsn4\|IWeThey Custom Search Engine]

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