Dear Readers: Happy Saturday! Hope you enjoy your weekend! In the meantime, let me take you on a visual tour of one of the Asian Markets of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Last time we did the typical
produce aisle of a grocery store here, so why not now showcase my second favorite food: Asian (more specifically, Thai and you can see the love over at my
Red Thai Curry Post).So without further ado, I introduce you to: Asiatico!
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| Two rows filled with packaged dried fruits, mushrooms, spices and teas! |
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| Since I am on a watermelon kick, these seemed interesting! Soy Sauce Watermelon Seeds?! |
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| “Nori Fumi Furikake” or so I Googled! I love this on white rice; one of my CIA friends was addicted to it! |
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| No, not pig cutlet. Fishy Fishy, I just loved the bright colored tin cans! |
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| More fishy fishy, I’m guessing they’re a good snack? |
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| NOW we’re talking! Ground Pork Cracklings. It’s like fairy dust! Sprinkle over cardboard and be happy! |
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| I think this would be a great cake filling! #coconutlover |
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| Another can I loved because of the colors! |
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| So, this is powdered beef stock and it has a bunny on the package. Too cute! |
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| Dried Noodles, love the simple, sleek packaging! |
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| Maybe I should get into packaging, because this was my favorite! Packaged in soft rice paper! |
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| This could be easily made at home, but if you can’t, they sell the mix! |
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| I hadn’t seen flavored vegetable oils, much less horseradish! Have you? |
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| The best product! I refrained from purchasing, I like my pork fresk, smoked, cured, salted but not canned! |
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| I’m guess this is some type of tapioca sweet? Maybe like candy? |
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| Milk Peanut Soup “Natural Food For Any Season” |
Hope you enjoyed a slice of Asia in Dominican Republic! Do you ever visit your local Asian markets? What’s your favorite/least favorite product? I ended up purchasing rice for sushi, fish sauce, nori sheets, and a Phillipino Sauce to marinate meats in! My Mom loves Asian foods, so we trade: she makes me countless brownies, I make her countless…anything she wants!
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Whenever we visit a new country this is the kind of place we spend most of our time! Too cool! And we have a small but well-stocked Asian supermarket near our house and I love shopping there.
There’s a store like this not too far from me. I love wandering around but I haven’t got a clue what many of the items are. It’s the only place that sells pimiento and it comes in a can. You have to ask for it because it doesn’t have it in English. LOL
C’mon! How could you pass up canned pork sauce?
I must get my hands on those watermelon seeds!~! thanks for sharing, so much fun!
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Love your market tours Nelly! It’s been a while since Ive been to an Asian market, but you’ve definitely inspired me to check some out soon. (Once I return from Disneyland:-)
Haha. Love the dried, fishy Korean snacks! It was always an interesting night in Seoul when a bowl of that stuff showed up with your pitcher of beer. A real, visual treat to see things like jellyfish hanging up to dry along the coast!
My market faves are dried, salted seaweed, coconut milk, curry pastes, and frozen, Korean dumplings 🙂
Love it!! I actually get dizzy when I go to the Asian market. I spend hours in the produce Dept. and then fish and then the isles. Problem is there is no one there to really help so, don’t laugh,I get confused. Silly I know. LOVE your tour!!
WOW! Thanks for the tour. Some really interesting stuff!! Would love to try it all. (I’m on a ‘try new stuff kick’ ) 🙂 @alanecooke
Fantastic tour! Have a wonderful weekend!
wow you have some korean products there!! that beef broth package is korean! hahaha yes parents go to asian markets all the time. i don’t really… but i love kabocha squash aka japanese pumpkin. it is AMAZING.