I remember writing about Korean grocery stores before on DAR. Exotic items like bulls pizzles. My sons did not believe me so on the last trip there I showed them. It really shut them up quick.
I didn't ask why, maybe because they're quite long, and pink, and are folded in half, and there are several of them per package, and stacks of packages in the freezer. The mind definitely boggles. Why on earth . . . .
How would you cook them, and why, and for whom?
Durians are strange looking, very spikey, and are in yellow mesh bags, one per bag, stacks of them.
But now the thing that boggles me the most about my local Korean supermarket is the kimchee refrigerators for sale in the appliance department, the size of old fashioned freezers, with several plastic tubs, so you can ferment your own kimchee at exactly the right temperature all year 'round. I knew Koreans eat a lot of kimchee, but I didn't realize they ate that much. There are several brands and configurations, too, it must be a standard item in a Korean household, like barbecue grills and smokers in Texas, only more high tech. Or washing machines and driers.
I did buy a Zojirushi neuro fuzzy logic rice cooker, it's very nice. Perfect rice every time, put tap water and rice and salt into the pot, punch some buttons and it will play a lovely tune when the rice is done, no muss, no fuss. These are as standard in Asian households as microwaves. |
