Asian World Market

Today we did something different than we usually did in class. Instead of exploring different Chinese cuisines and trying to cook ourselves, we went to the Asian World market to checkout the products in the stores! One of our tasks today was a scavenger hunt!! Oh I love this game! Let's see what we have got in store! Hahaha you get it, in store... :D 

1. What are the four different types of tofu sold here? -Soft, dried, cakey, & deep fried!

2. What are the four different types of tea sold here? -Ji Jin, Dragon's Well, Long Jing, & Black Tea.

 3. Find a vegetable you've never tried. -Long squash

4. How is the meat displayed here? -In rows/columns by parts

5. Name one type of Chinese beer. -Was trying to find Tsing Dao, but found Taiwan Beer instead!

6. Find a spice you've never worked with. -Never heard of Coriander and Masala spices before!

7. How many types of rice to you see for sale? -Toooooo many! :0

8. What's in a Chinese bakery? -Different types of buns! Some with sweet/salty stuffing instead and some without! There were also different types of cookies!

Fresh ginger, garlic, dried red chillis, and scallions.

Pine nuts, red Azuki beans, stick rice, dried longans.

Chinese cabbage and prickly ash.

Honestly, I thought all these ingredients would not be as hard to find. Turns out, I was WRONG. Maybe I should pay more attention to what my mother is getting when she is here. Usually I just hangout at the junk food section and think of different ways to sneak snacks into the grocery cart without her noticing hahah!! :D 

Can you find these items in your nearby Asian market? Brave enough to take this challenge? To be completely honest, I had to ask to ask customer service for help. There were just SOOOOOO much spices and products in the store! 

I think the abundance of spices and different sauces really shows how the Chinese food culture is. With all these spices and various sauces, the Chinese is able to create a dish with different types of layers! This is definitely something distinct to the Chinese food culture. Hopefully, after this course I would be able to create my own dish with different layers. Practice makes perfect! Wish me luck!

Thank you for sticking with this for yet another week! I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! Go checkout the Asian market! It's really fun :))))))

Evann