/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.7088945]

Which items are required purchasing whenever you go into an asian grocery store?

[Anonymous No.7088946]

>You know you're a weeaboo when...

[Anonymous No.7088949]

Pork Floss and weird ambiguous dried seafood products to make your friends eat.

[Anonymous No.7088958]

Bonito powder and NEG

[Anonymous No.7088963]

>>7088945
Avocados, mangos, fruits in general. Fish and pork are really good quality also. Chicken and beef though are shit, sometimes a roasted goose if they have any and if im with the gf.

Soy sauce that isnt kikoman dark soy sauce fish sauce, ramen bean sprouts and alot of asian drinks. Asian drinks is how i pulled my current girlfriens anyhow.

[Anonymous No.7088982]

Eggplants and Thai basil for curry
Doubanjiang for Sichuan food
Fresh Tofu
Rice noodles
Random ramen packs that catch my eye

[Anonymous No.7089035]

Cup lychee jelly

[Anonymous No.7089042]

>>7088945
I hate how greesey the chocolate is on these....

[Anonymous No.7089046]

durian and sweet soy sauce, and probably some instant ramen

[Anonymous No.7089081]

On November 11 here in Korea is 'Pepero Day' (1111, get it). Everyone gives everyone boxes of those things. I can't stand them.

[Anonymous No.7089175]

>>7089042
It's not chocolate..

[Anonymous No.7089220]

>>7088945
Pocky is just tall chocolate biscuits.

[Anonymous No.7089271]

just what I was thinking of doing right now
>spicy sesame oil
>huge bag of sticky rice
>gyoza wrappers
>salad pockies

Shame how most of the shit at the store is overpriced to fuck

[Anonymous No.7089272]

hahahhh le pocky xD i love le pocky

zzsssdddd

[Anonymous No.7089297]

Anyone ever had dry squid?
What's it like?

[Anonymous No.7089310]

>>7089297
tastes like dry squid

[Anonymous No.7089312]

>>7088945
Golden Curry

[Anonymous No.7089328]

Squid snacks, frozen pork buns, seaweed salads, some meat, sushi rice, pickles, fresh breads or desserts, sauces if I need them.

The only thing I haven't worked up the gall to do is to get seafood from the counter. Have nooo idea if those dudes would understand english.

[Anonymous No.7089341]

>>7089297
Yummmmmmmmm

[Anonymous No.7089389]

Jahe Wangi ginger tea
Nagaraya cracker nuts, hard to find since there was a scare about them being toxic or some shit.
Frozen fish balls for soups
Frozen fish cakes and dumplings for whenever
Vietnamese coffee for that sweet diabetes iced coffee
Tinned curry pastes for laksas, green/red curry, etc.
Cheap tempeh, bok, and bean sprouts.
Also cheap $5 choppers that work perfectly fine for most jobs if you happen to not have knife related autism.

Fortunately my town got culturally enriched a few decades ago and can reap the benefits of about a dozen or so Asian Markets

[Anonymous No.7090619]

a couple of tubs of gochujang, as I have a legitimate addiction to it
Frozen rice cakes for when I don't feel like making my own
That yuzu tea that comes in a jar
A few packs of vermont curry mix
a fuckton of garlic
gyoza wraps
shiitake mushrooms (cheapest place to get them in town)

[Anonymous No.7090634]

>>7089046
>durian
Into the trash it goes

[Anonymous No.7090642]

I usually get an okonomiyaki kit, mochi, pork and squid floss, ramune soda, and some green tea.

[Anonymous No.7090656]

Chilli paste, kimchi, fried shallots, vericimelli noodles, wontons

[Anonymous No.7090684]

2 jap sluts

[Anonymous No.7090975]

[weeb intensifies]

Doesn't matter, still tastes like bottled happiness.

[Anonymous No.7090992]

I always buy some of these little fuckers

I also buy pig skin and char sui bao,

[Anonymous No.7090998]

thai or viet fish sauce
cheap dried chili peppers and these korean pepper flakes for making kimchi
chinese light and dark soy sauce
oyster sauce
szechuan pepper
fermented soy beans
rice vinegar, chink black vinegar
sesame oil

produce when it looks good, chinese garlic that's just single big bulbs without membranes

i also buy frozen sea food there, prawns and squid are for some reason really cheap

[Anonymous No.7091847]

Yakult and these other drink things. I have no idea what they're called, and they're completely unlabeled. They look like sausage links made of translucent plastic and come in a string of 3. The links are larger than a cat tail puff and contain juice. You can cut them apart to seperate them for individual servings.

[Anonymous No.7091851]

>>7088945
5 dorrar sucky sucky

[Anonymous No.7091855]

>No one mentions Shrimp crackers

Faggots

[Anonymous No.7091886]

I don't always buy all of these every time but some of my favorite things are:

>Golden Curry
>Okonomiyaki flour though I've used bisquick and there's not a huge difference
>Sapporo brand Chow Mein flavor ramen
>Apple Sidra
>Coconut pocky
>Samanco Taiyaki ice cream sandwich
>Koala's March (preferably chocolate or regular milk cream)
>Dehydrated soy protein and/or Seitan
>Enoki mushrooms

[Anonymous No.7091924]

>>7088945
>>7089042

I was going to buy a box once but I checked the ingredients first... fucking NOPE.

>hydrogenated

[Anonymous No.7091934]

>>7091855
Those are great. Most people however hate them because they smell like aquarium fish food.

[Anonymous No.7091937]

>>7091924
scientific name for vegetable shortening. I.E crisco

[Anonymous No.7091942]

>>7091924
>Sal Fat
Huge slam on Sal out of nowhere.

[Anonymous No.7092022]

>>7091924
All that means is that it's not real chocolate, it's chocolate flavoured fats.

Margarine is made out of hydrogenated oils too.

[Anonymous No.7092088]

I'll usually get taro mochi, seaweed snacks, weird mushrooms, red bean ice cream, some noodles, fruit if it looks good.

[Anonymous No.7092099]

>>7091937
>>7092022

Well aware of what it means and is. Which is why I wouldn't touch the shit.

[Anonymous No.7092280]

I only go when I'm fortunate enough to be in LA.

Kimchi dumplings/flat ones, frozen red bean and prom baos,kimchi bottle or store made kimchi, Korean instant coffee and barley tea, Korean pancake mix, some bulgogi and chicken teriyaki from the meat guy in back. At the Japanese store, I get calpis concentrate, potato sticks, seaweed salt potato chips, these rice crackers that are like a variety pack, big as fuck round crackers and around 5$, konbu and salmon onigiri, one bento to enjoy later, ready made croquettes, dashi powder, Java curry mix or Vermont, ume candy with a kimono girl on the front, salmon steaks cause nowhere else has em, Japanese chocolate that comes in a box of individually wrapped pieces with gold and brown packaging.

[Anonymous No.7092300]

>>7088945
>ingredients
Sushi rice
Tofu
Rice vermicelli
Miso paste
Bonito flakes
Wakame seaweed
Home made noodles
Large bag of endame beans
Nori for my lazy weekday sushi bowls.
Soy sauce, sesame oil and wasabi if I ran out.

>non-ingredients
Puddi pudding
Maybe some instant ramen.
Boyfriend and I are vegetarian tho, so no meat for us.

[Anonymous No.7092519]

Normally not a fan but someone gave me a pack of these blueberry ones and they're really pretty good.

The "chocolate" ones are trash, since they're really crying out for salt.

[Anonymous No.7092527]

>>7089297
Its pretty good with the gochujang (red pepper paste). I once had it as my hiking snack and that was a poor choice though desu.

[Anonymous No.7092543]

>>7092300
>vegetarian
>Bonito flakes
you realize a bonito is a type of fish right?

[Anonymous No.7092551]

Depends on what I need, but usually things like:
Sushi rice
Miso paste
Rice vinegar
Mirin
Nori
Pickled ginger
Dashi stock
Sweet potato vermicelli
Rice noodles
Dried shiitake
Sesame oil
Hot pepper flakes
Thai chips
Vegetables
Wakame seaweed

[Anonymous No.7092554]

>>7088982
Basically this plus some other fruits, vegetables, and herbs.

[Anonymous No.7092558]

>>7090684
Are they gyaru

>>7090975
ayy

[Anonymous No.7093100]

I picked up some Black Black even though I'm not a gum guy. The flavor is really powerful and nice, I like it, even though I prefer non-minty gum.

Also got some of this. Imagine a flat Sprite in a Red Bull can. It's not good.

[Anonymous No.7093136]

I really like trying new snacks, seeing how asians have mastered artificial flavorings.

Had these last time. Pretty good, tasted mostly like honey and butter.

[Anonymous No.7093685]

>>7091942
>Huge slam on Sal out of nowhere.

[Anonymous No.7093781]

>>7090642
Yep that's exactly it, excluding the tea.

[Anonymous No.7094593]

>>7092088
Went today and got taro and red bean mochi, konnyaku, purple vermicelli, wide rice noodles, a persimmon, and seaweed snacks. I think I'll cook something up with the konnyaku for lunch, but I've never cooked with it before. Maybe something with this vermicelli?

[Anonymous No.7094734]

>>7088945
Pocky is disgusting. I will never understand why weeaboos like that trash.
We have much better chocolate in Japan, you know.

[Anonymous No.7094764]

>>7094734
It's just a fad food. It comes in several flavors, it's cheap, and it's so pimped out in anime and manga it's just become the iconic weeb treat. The chocolate is subpar and waxy but that's kind of what Americans are used to. Most of our chocolate isn't actual chocolate, just cocoa-flavored oils.

[Anonymous No.7094770]

>>7091855
The perfect snack food.

[Anonymous No.7094942]

Green onion pancake
Red bean milk bars
Sesame bars
Haw candy
White Rabbit
Sesame Oil
Various pickles
Chinese Sausage
Miso paste
Whatever produce is cheap

[Anonymous No.7094964]

fake ass weebs eating pocky

[Anonymous No.7094985]

Thai basil
lemongrass
Bao flour
Frozen bao for when I just want some nao

[Anonymous No.7095009]

>>7089297
Tastes like cum.

[Anonymous No.7095021]

Calpis
Dried fish snacks
Wasabi peas
Dorayaki or taiyaki

[Anonymous No.7095027]

>>7089297
Fucking great

[Anonymous No.7095029]

>>7090975
fucking ay, love calpis and calpico (though i hate grape calpis, tastes like ass)
I always go for the 0.9L bottles when they're cheap

[Anonymous No.7095074]

These. Fuck your sugary weeb shit.

[Anonymous No.7095092]

>>7089297
u ever smell fish flakes? like the shits u dump into an aquarium to feed goldfish or some shit? cuase it smells like that and tastes like it smells shits fukkin orrid

[Anonymous No.7095101]

>>7088945
>Jackfruit
>sea cucumber
>Live seafood

[Anonymous No.7095102]

Pig's blood

[Anonymous No.7095126]

>Be British
>Want to try some Pocky
>Go out
>Ask someone for directions to the nearest Asian market
>they point me to a nice little shop in the corner
>go in
>smells strange, like curry, probably Thai curry, owner must be Thai
>turn to the owner
>he is very brown
>must be south Indonesian
>look him in the eye
>'POCKY'
>he gets mad
>asks what I called him
>Say 'POCKY' again as loud as I can
>suddenly hs 10 cousins come out of the back of the shop with machetes
>behead me in the street
>head gets arrested for racism

[Anonymous No.7095142]

[Anonymous No.7095161]

>>7095074


is this onion? if so got dang all that stalk is sexy

[Anonymous No.7095208]

>>7095161
Garlic bolt. Cut them into inch long segments and they great in beef stir fries.

[Anonymous No.7095213]

>>7095126
I see you're ahead of the game

[Anonymous No.7095547]

>>7090975
what does this taste like? i've heard that original calpis is like some sort of milky soda?

[Anonymous No.7096227]

>>7088945

>Pocky
>Good

If I wanted to eat pocky like other weaboos, I'd dip rolls of cardboard in chocolate.

[Anonymous No.7096230]

>>7089271
>spicy sesame oil
Hell yes, that shit's the best

[Anonymous No.7096238]

some weird af brand instant noodles

MSG

Better sriracha than the huy fong brand (basically any other sriracha)

coconut soda pop

Fiji water

[Anonymous No.7096241]

>>7088945
>good curries
>jasmine rice
>korean walnut almond yam instant tea
(it's so fucking delicious if you ever see it definitely give it a go)
pic slightly related but a different brand, not with this bitch on it

also anything that looks interesting. I love exploring cooking with new and strange ingredients.

[Anonymous No.7096261]

>>7091924

>Japanese product
>Rapeseed oil

Of course.

[Anonymous No.7096341]

>>7088945
Why would I bother buying some shit snack at an ethnic market that I could get at the local fucking Walmart?

[Anonymous No.7096356]

aloe juice
i guess you could find it at normal grocery stores but i rarely see it

[Anonymous No.7096368]

>>7096261
you're the fucking retard who doesn't know Rapeseed is sold as Canola in North America

[Anonymous No.7096372]

Dashi, miso paste, wakame. All about dat fresh miso soup.

[Anonymous No.7096374]

>>7094593
Cooked up the konnyaku in sesame oil with soy sauce and powdered chili. Added in some boiled red cabbage and the purple vermicelli.

[Anonymous No.7096375]

>>7096368

It's a joke, man. Chill.

[Anonymous No.7096379]

>>7088982
>doubanjiang for sichuan food
lol

[Anonymous No.7096418]

Korean apple and honey chips

[Anonymous No.7096426]

>>7096368
>you literally can't make jokes any more due to autists like this

And yes, autist was used correctly here.

[Anonymous No.7096434]

>>7088945
Honey Umeboshi, furikake, katsuobushi, strawberry mochi

[Anonymous No.7096447]

>>7096372
miso paste! yes, i use it in everything that can use that salty flavor, not just soup, especially when frying mushrooms, so good

[Anonymous No.7097280]

>>7088945
Jackfruit
Mangosteen
Lychees/rambutans/longans
Other exotic fruits and vegetables
Dried squid
Gochujang
Satay sauce
Thai tea
Thai coffee
Thai curry
Basil seed drink
Hopia
Seitan
Those fish flavored meatball things
Canned quail eggs
Sarsi (sarsaparilla soda from southeast Asia)
Nuts Incredible (it's a Filipino snack)
Frozen steamed buns
Frozen potstickers
Vietnamese-style soymilk
Pic related (so good)

[Anonymous No.7097354]

>>7090619
About 12 of these lovely little drinks
Bonito flakes
Kombu
Dashi stock powder (what I use most of the time)
Sake
Shaoxing
Sesame oil
Sesame seeds (white and black)
Lychees/Rambutans/Longans
Golden Curry blocks
Coconut milk
Buna-Shimeji/Shiitake/Enokitake
Perilla
Burdock
A shit ton of tea
Pork belly
Fried tofu skins
Ginger
Noodles upon noodles upon noodles

>shiitake mushrooms (cheapest place to get them in town)

Seriously. Asian markets have the best prices on mushrooms period. I'm not paying 5.99 for what I could get for 2.00

[Anonymous No.7097363]

>>7095547
Ever had Yakult?

Pretty much exactly like that. It's described as a yoghurt drink or something and it tastes amazing.

Most of the ones you get aren't carbonated, in my area especially it's really hard to get a hold of Calpis Soda which is carbonated, though I've had it a couple of times and I'm not convinced that it's really much better than the original.

[Anonymous No.7097370]

>>7096227
>>7096341

>implying the choice of Pocky for a picture wasn't just to attract attention as a well-known example of food bought at an asian market

[Anonymous No.7097400]

>>7097280
A bag of these plus pic related are a good time.

[Anonymous No.7097526]

>>7091847
The Mexican ones are so much cheaper.

[Anonymous No.7097615]

This is pretty good

[Anonymous No.7097655]

One thing I think no one has mentioned yet:

Banana leaves. They're great for making tamales and pasteles, and they add a nice subtle flavor to a lot of other dishes as well.

Ponzu sauce is pretty good as well.
Dried mushrooms are an essential. Supermarkets, if they even have some of the varieties of mushrooms you can find at an Asian market, will charge you ISIS ransom prices for this shit. Don't pay it. There's an easier way.
Black bean sauce.

[Anonymous No.7098014]

this is great with beer

[Anonymous No.7098022]

THESE THEY ARE SO GOOD

[Anonymous No.7098046]

>>7098022
Its funny because in Japan we dont really like them. You weebs love our shit.

[Anonymous No.7098054]

>>7097400
Mah nigga, I love Banana milk.

[Anonymous No.7098055]

>>7098014
it's meh.

[Anonymous No.7098402]

>>7088946
>hes never had asian food

[Anonymous No.7098686]

>>7095009
You'd be the expert on what cum tastes like, huh?

[Anonymous No.7098692]

Sesame seeds covered mochi

[Anonymous No.7098726]

>>7097363
i had a calpis but never a yakult
are you tellin me that they taste the same ?