Happy Dance: Going shopping at the Chinese Supermarket with a Guide!

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richard-in-cincy

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I am accompanying my Chinese friend on her next trip to the the Chinese Supermarket. This place is amazing, it's the size of a regular large city grocery, but is all Chinese with regular meat and seafood departments (the seafood department is FUN!), produce department (baby bokchoy!) And all sort of wonderfulness from fresh rice noodles, quail eggs ($1.25/doz.), ginormous head on prawns (usually $5/lb.), smoked eel, teas, spices, condiments, sauces, and all sorts of exotic stuff that I don't know what it is.

So I now have a guide and interpreter.

Can't wait!

 
I'm jealous. I have gone to these markets alone and come home

with lots of treasures and great buys but am always curious about so many things I'm not familiar with or even which brands of more common things are the best.

 
I'm envious. Would *love* to do that. One thing I'd like to know is how and when to use the vast

array of fresh noodles and pastas. There are so many Asian noodle choices here that it boggles my mind and reading the package doesn't help when it's not in English.

Then there are allllll the soy sauce choices. Same challenge as above, when to use which ones.

Have fun, Richard, that sounds like such a blast.

 
Oh my, please give a report and tell what you buy. I'm another who gets so confused by the choices

 
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