What do you buy at HMart or other Asian groceries?

[Anonymous]

I go to Lotte and tend to shop most in the Indian food section

Spices - fenugreek, turmeric
Tamarind paste
Roasted Chickpeas for snacking
Raw chickpeas and lentils for cooking

Canned coconut milk
Canned jackfruit

Shoyu sauce

Candy and chewing gum flavors not found in conventional grocery stores

[Anonymous]

Produce
Asian sauces
Meat (I think the quality of the ground beef and ground pork is really good)
Kimchi
Mochi
Dumplings

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kimchi
Frozen mandu (dumplings)
Rice cakes - fresh and frozen
Kimbap- in prepared foods
Seasonings including soy sauce, sesame oil, fermented soybean paste (I check labels to avoid made in China)
Red pepper flakes
Dried rice noodles or buckwheat noodles
Gim (dried seaweed)
Tea
Oxtail
Produce
Tofu
Housewares including ceramic pans, indoor slippers, little dishes

This looks like my grocery list at hmart

I also will get some choco pie and wasabi sometimes. Much cheaper at hmart.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What brand of dumplings do people like? I never buy any because there are so many and I get overwhelmed.

I look for ones without MSG

i think the one i get is bibigo

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What brand of dumplings do people like? I never buy any because there are so many and I get overwhelmed.

I look for ones without MSG

Me: walking past PP with my two pound bag of Ajinomoto

[Anonymous]

Honey butter chips

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What brand of dumplings do people like? I never buy any because there are so many and I get overwhelmed.

I look for ones without MSG

Me: walking past PP with my two pound bag of Ajinomoto

+1

I love MSG. I got a little panda shaped glass of it in Japan and now I just buy the bags to refill. No shame in my umami game!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bulgogi. OMG so good.

Pretty much only that and fresh fruit/veggies.

I just bought some frozen last night. Can't wait to grill it.

Why would you buy it frozen?

So I can grill it tonight with the nicer weather.

[Anonymous]

I get tins of Thai curry paste.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What brand of dumplings do people like? I never buy any because there are so many and I get overwhelmed.

I look for ones without MSG

Me: walking past PP with my two pound bag of Ajinomoto

You look unusual. Where are you from?

[Anonymous]

Where do you guys go? I went to Hmart in Merrifield and was underwhelmed.

[Anonymous]

- Kimchi
- Seaweed salad
- Dried noodles: sweet potato starch (for japchae), ramen, udon, rice vermicelli
- Soy sauce
- Fish sauce
- Frozen gyoza
- Pork belly (thin sliced -- to put in kimchi soup)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where do you guys go? I went to Hmart in Merrifield and was underwhelmed.

That one is terrible. Go to Fairfax.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:- Kimchi
- Seaweed salad
- Dried noodles: sweet potato starch (for japchae), ramen, udon, rice vermicelli
- Soy sauce
- Fish sauce
- Frozen gyoza
- Pork belly (thin sliced -- to put in kimchi soup)

I looove kimchi jjigae. But I like mine with a little more pork. The last time I made it, I used chopped boneless pork shoulder instead of the pork belly. It turned out great. Just another option if you’re ever in a pinch!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where do you guys go? I went to Hmart in Merrifield and was underwhelmed.

Great Wall Supermarket on Gallows Road is great.