Text 18253, 67 rader
Skriven 2007-07-27 14:56:55 av Carol Shenkenberger (3:800/201)
  Kommentar till text 18248 av Barbara McNay (1:382/48)
Ärende: Re: DRUNK CHICKEN  70721
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*** Quoting Barbara McNay from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

 > Ok, seemed a simple thing and a natural.  It's funny
 > being away so long and finding suprises like that <g>.

BM> Yes, it's going to be a new adventure for you folks when you get back.

That it will be!  I hope to give you all some giggles as i rediscover USA
markets and remind myself of products once normal to me that I've forgotten
even existed.

 > Well, Actually Norfolk area when I left had a good
 > stock of asian stores.  'Asian Grocery' was the chain
 > though they all seemed mom-n-pop type places much like
 > the ones in Hawaii that I shopped at.  I figure to
 > reduce Charlotte's culture shock, we'll make that our
 > first grocery place.  Familiar products are there and
 > we recognized many of them when we got here so it
 > worked in reverse too.

BM> Yes, indeed.

Seems sensible.  When we got here, we recognized a few products that had had
english labels taped over them at the Asian Grocery.  It made things easier on
us here at the start.

Iknow I can get my hot-sweet sauce there and my favored brand of sesame oil
(dynasty is ok but there's better ones).  I think I can get my korean kimchee
sauce in a bottle too though I didnt know what it was when I was stateside and
will have to go back stateside to get a name for it that the rest of you can
follow ;-)

I can definately get my fav brand Tomato juice in the square plastic bottles
and pocari sweat ( a sort of flavored water, similar in concept to gatoraide).


 > I am not so sure of other ethnic food places in
 > Norfolk.  Might be there, but didnt really notice
 > much.

BM> The mix has probably changed; some old ones gone, new ones added.

Fortunately the web shows my Asian Market chain is alive and well.


 > BM> You might find that some of Korea has arrived Stateside during your ab

 > Good!  But the style of shopping will not be the same.

BM> Perhaps not, but you likely will encounter the 'style' of shopkeeper h
BM> and there.

Oh not likely I will be bickering the price of a bag of spice whilst being
batted by a hanging meat bit that looks an awful lot like a dog leg (and
probably is from the looks of the toes and nails).  Here I am, yelling at the
lady (proper shopper tactic) in my english while insisting she take my won for
the bag but add more spice (giggles).  Here she is, screatching back 'enough,
enough' with this swinging dog-leg battering at us (and us dodging most well)
while my friends stand back all agaga snapping photos...

Still, the fun might be there in our eyes once they know this round-eye a bit
better ;-)

                                       xxcarol

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