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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Ooooh, I love the “tour” of this Asian market in DR. We do have a nice size Asian market in my city too. It’s so interesting looking at the variety of items …most of which I still have to learn how to use.
I can get lost in asian markets, checking out all the things that are new to me. Great finds here! (I am a furikake addict as well…more furikake than rice in my bowl!)
I’m a true grocery store addict. I loved looking inside your store, thanks for sharing 🙂
I have never been to a true Asian Grocery but I have browsed the section at the World Market. I haven’t really done much with Asian flavors but I certainly should. Thanks for the tour!