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Category Archives: – Featured Markets
This year’s new Asian markets and closed markets that will be missed
From the end of 2019 through to 2020 several Asian markets closed in Philly, but we also gained just as many new markets. Here is a roundup: Continue reading
The East Falls Farmers’ Market
Since the lock down, the East Falls Farmers’ Market (4100 Ridge Ave) has become my primary source for fresh produce, fruit, meats, yogurt, cheese, wine, beer, etc. My wife and I still cook primarily Thai and East Asia inspired foods on a daily basis, but we have largely adapted to what is available at the market. Continue reading
Posted in - Featured Food Discoveries, - Featured Markets
Tagged cooking, east falls, farmers market, lock down, pandemic, quarantine
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Central Asia-focused market in NE Philadelphia
I was thrilled to learn about a new market that opened up in NE Philly this past year–a market that caters to Central Asian tastes! It is called Vatan Market and it is located at 11726A Bustleton Ave, just across … Continue reading
Posted in - Featured Food Discoveries, - Featured Markets
Tagged Central Asia, guraob, obgura, tajik, Uzbek, آبغوره
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Gundruk: an essential food staple and flavor in Nepali cooking
Over the past several months I have been slowly exploring Nepali food and cooking with rare items from our local supplier of foodstuffs from Nepal, Friendly Market on S. 7th St. in South Philly (see here for my 2014 introduction … Continue reading
Posted in - Featured Food Discoveries, - Featured Markets, - Recipes, Nepali food
Tagged achar, เนปาล, 酸菜干, pickle, soup, soybean, 呢珀尔
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A foray into Ethiopian flavors
Please allow for a temporary distraction from the great Asia-focused food in Philadelphia. Don’t get me wrong, this is an exciting time for new Asian food items–it seems every day there is something new–but I’d like to share a recent … Continue reading
Posted in - Featured Food Discoveries, - Featured Markets, - Unique food traditions, Non-Asian
Tagged doro wot, ethiopian, injera, stew
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Fenugreek, a delicious herb/vegetable
Fenugreek has long been used in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia in cooking and medicine. Today in the US it is perhaps best known as a spice component of cuisines of India, but it also has an … Continue reading
Posted in - Featured Food Discoveries, - Featured Markets, Indian food
Tagged मेथी, fenugreek, leaves, methi, Norristown, شنبلیله
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Besan flour and Burmese chickpea tofu
Yesterday I had an exciting new food experience with a starch jelly common in Myanmar. There it is commonly referred to as “tofu” တိုဖူး, though it isn’t made from soy or processed in the ways in which beans are fermented … Continue reading
Posted in - Featured Food Discoveries, - Featured Markets, - Recipes, Myanmar/Burmese food
Tagged besan, burma, Burmese, chickpea, garbanzo, gram flour, karen, refugee, salad, tofu
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Edible Southeast Asian tree and bush leaves
Happy New Year greetings! Although I wasn’t able to post as much as I would have liked to in 2016, I was able to continue my careful exploration of interesting finds at our MANY Asian markets in Philadelphia (I now … Continue reading
(A few) Asian grocery options for Germantown and Manayunk
Regular readers of this blog may be surprised to find that for the past 3 years, I have been living about as far away from any Asian market as can possibly be in Philadelphia. Perhaps that has helped force me … Continue reading
Posted in - Featured Food Discoveries, - Featured Markets, Japanese food, Korean food, Thai/Lao food
Tagged Germantown, Manayunk
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Vietnamese Plaza in Near Northeast Philadelphia
Regular readers will be familiar with the mission behind this blog… to showcase notable food finds from my exploration of markets of Philadelphia’s Asian diaspora communities. Since I moved to Philadelphia a few years ago I have spent a lot … Continue reading
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