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What to buy at Asian markets? Asian grocery stores offer some of the freshest vegetables, fruit and fish at a great price. Photo: Getty Images.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you call yourself a good cook, then you shop where the food is best or most appropriate to your cooking, no matter what you\u2019re cooking.<\/p>\n

In truth, Asian grocers aren\u2019t merely the best places to buy groceries if you\u2019re cooking Asian. Sure, they have 26 varieties of soy sauce<\/a> or chili paste<\/a> or rice cooking wine. Each. And as many turns on rice noodles or ramen packages as the stars at night.<\/p>\n

But they\u2019re also the best \u2014 and often best-priced \u2014 groceries for most vegetables<\/a> and fruits, period. And for most cuts of pork. And fresh mushrooms<\/a>. And dried mushrooms.<\/p>\n

And fresh fish<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You certainly need not speak an Asian language to navigate an Asian grocer. I\u2019ve found that most Asian grocers and their staffs also speak English or Spanish. That\u2019s the Colorado way, folks.<\/p>\n

What to buy at Asian markets?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Asian grocery freshness<\/strong><\/h3>\n

What cooks want, most of all, in their cooking ingredients is freshness; grocers achieve that with turnover. The more something is purchased, the quicker that a fresher item replaces it.<\/p>\n

At an Asian grocer, that\u2019s the case in the produce, most meat and certainly the fish aisles. And compared with non-Asian grocers, the prices are not only competitive, but commonly far less. (Examples on a recent visit: limes, four for a dollar; squashes at 70 cents a pound; scallions for 33 cents a bunch).<\/p>\n

Frozen foods<\/strong><\/h3>\n

And if it cannot be found fresh, the frozen sections of Asian grocery stores shame those elsewhere. The average American grocer now may power up what resembles The Wall in \u201cGame of Thrones,\u201d but close to a fourth, even a third of the real estate in many Asian grocery stores is dedicated to frozen foods, a lot of it appetizing, much of it useful, all of it well-priced.<\/p>\n

An entire bag of pot stickers or meat-and-vegetable dumplings for less than the cost of the same as an appetizer at a Chinese restaurant; ice creams of every stripe, including the now-fashionable flavors of mango or matcha (green tea); and, perhaps best of all, frozen ingredients for other non-Asian cuisines such as choclo corn from South America, or various yams of Africa.<\/p>\n

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Need to know what you can buy at an Asian market? Asian grocery stores offer some of the best-priced vegetables, fruits and fish. Photo: Getty Images.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And, of course, in those freezers is another vast selection of fish, shellfish, prepared fish, and cuts of pork, chicken, beef, duck and offal meat. All of it iced, that\u2019s all.<\/p>\n

But let\u2019s say you really are cooking just \u201cWestern\u201d tonight. Still, an Asian grocer often makes better shopping sense. All of these, for merely a few examples, are far less costly at an Asian than at a \u201cWestern\u201d market: shrimp, heads on or off; oxtail or bony beef for soups or stews; chicken parts (even, yes, feet) for gelatinous broths; indeed, whole fowl of most any sort.<\/p>\n

Great meat options<\/h3>\n

What I love above all, for my own meat-based cooking when I do it, is the true nose-to-tail possible pork purchase. (Here, \u201cnose-to-tail\u201d is indeed that, snots to corkscrews, because in many other non-Asian markets, restaurants and purveyors, the phrase is merely, um, lip service.)<\/p>\n

For instance, many a French braise calls for \u201clardons\u201d to start. Cookbooks will say, \u201cblanch sticks of salt pork\u201d or \u201cslice uncured bacon\u201d to approach getting at real French lardons. <\/em>In France itself, lardons<\/em> are the small pieces of raw, un-smoked, uncured, unsalted pork belly rendered in a pot or larded through an un-marbled piece of beef, say.<\/p>\n

Well, if you\u2019re after raw, un-smoked, uncured, unsalted pork\u2014belly or otherwise\u2014the array at an Asian grocer can be unnerving. (Note to self: learn how to prepare pork uterus. Not an altogether offal idea.)<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been touting Asian grocery markets as joints for smart shopping for non-Asian cooks and recipes. But of course, they\u2019re best for Asian cooking too\u2014and for other \u201cspecial need\u201d or specialized kitchen work and eats, as well.<\/p>\n

Most Asian grocers have a kitchenware section that\u2019s far more extensive than the half-aisle at the local grocer. My kitchen is replete with strainers, metal bowls, various sizes of bamboo steamers and skewers, and woodenware that makes all my cooking, Asian or otherwise, more efficient.

Get more tips and recipes<\/a> from Bill St. John.<\/div>\n

Gluten-free options at Asian markets<\/h3>\n

When I cook for my gluten-averse friends, I shop at Asian grocers for rice-based ingredients (rice papers in any number of forms; rice noodles of any size; various sorts of rice grains, brown, sweet or white) and buckwheat noodles or tapioca- and bean-based noodles, flours or ingredients. Sure, you can get some of the same at non-Asian grocers, but neither will the selection nor variety be as extensive, nor the price as low.<\/p>\n

Yes to wonton or dumpling skins\u2014fresh or frozen\u2014when I don\u2019t want to roll out pasta for tortellini; yes to grey squash at 69 cents a pound when down the street it\u2019s a dollar or more for zucchini; yes to lemongrass stalks as long as my leg for a third the price of the wee package of sticks of the same hanging in the herb section of the mega-mart.<\/p>\n

Yes to panko instead of canned breadcrumbs; yes to Korean pears in December; yes to fresh, real sesame oil, sweet soy sauce, sweet-hot Korean gochujang that wasn\u2019t tinned two years ago; yes to palatable cooking wine; yes to 50-cent ramen packages with terribly interesting flavors.<\/p>\n

Yes to smells and greenery and sweet cookies made in Indonesia, the names of which I can\u2019t\u2014nor care to\u2014pronounce. And seaweed treats and gummy bears as large as my thumb and persimmons with still-taut skin.<\/p>\n

And yes, to raw, un-smoked, uncured, unsalted pork.<\/p>\n

And live fish.<\/p>\n

Umami Shrimp: Get what you need at the Asian food grocer<\/strong><\/h2>\n

No, the word \u201cumami\u201d in this recipe does not name a sort of Asian shrimp. It is the \u201cfifth taste,\u201d say many scientists, to be added to salt, sweet, acid and bitter. Umami is the savor of cooked mushroom, for example, or aged cheese. Oodles of it in this dish (the crimini, broth, tamari) and from the cooking of it altogether.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Ingredients<\/strong><\/h3>\n

2 tablespoons canola oil, plus more if needed<\/p>\n

8 ounces sliced crimini mushrooms<\/p>\n

3 green onions, sliced<\/p>\n

1\/2 cup chicken broth<\/p>\n

2 tablespoons tamari<\/p>\n

1 tablespoon sesame oil<\/p>\n

1\/4 teaspoon ground red or black pepper<\/p>\n

1\/2 pound cleaned, cooked shrimp<\/p>\n

1 cup cooked broccoli florets or green beans<\/p>\n

Cooked noodles or rice<\/p>\n

Directions<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Heat canola oil in a wok or large skillet over high heat. Add crimini mushrooms; stir-fry until lightly browned, about 3 minutes. Transfer mushrooms to a plate with slotted spoon. Add more oil to wok, if needed; add green onions. Stir-fry 1 minute. Add chicken broth, tamari, sesame oil, and pepper to taste; heat to a boil. Stir in shrimp, broccoli florets or green beans, and reserved mushrooms; heat until hot, about 2 minutes. Serve over cooked noodles or rice.<\/p>\n

Reach Bill St. John at <\/em>billstjohn@gmail.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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