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To: mightylakers who wrote (121441)	12/12/2003 11:12:38 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

I was looking for Szechuan peppers at Super H Market, a Korean supermarket, this evening. The only people who speak English there, other than a few of the customers, are the guys who work in the customer service booth, and their English is iffy. When I asked about Szechuan peppers, they sent me to Aisles 8 & 9, which have "American" and Hispanic foods, I gather on the principle that because I am "American" or Anglo-American, whatever crazy thing I want must be American or Anglo-American. They do have a small number of Chinese things. I bought a small quantity of Ma Po Tofu sauce in a foil wrapper - I guess it's probably either irradiated or gas treated - and a couple of jars of Chinese hot sauce - they list "prickly ash", which is one of the names of Szechuan pepper - which isn't actually a pepper. And I got a jar of Sansho, aka "Japanese pepper," which is closely related, if not the same thing. How on earth the FDA can actually tell what's being imported I have no idea. Half of the stuff for sale in Super H has a tiny white sticker in English that simply lists "spice" or "cotyledon". The real labels are in Korean, or Japanese, or Chinese, or Thai. And American labels never actually say what herbs and spices are in foods, anyway. The other half is labeled well, but tends to be very strange anyway, at least to Anglo eyes. Pork uteri, for one. A gazillion variations on tiny dried shrimp, squid, and other things with little bitty eyes. Various kinds of seaweed. A hundred different varieties of soy sauce, dozens of different varieties of fish sauce. I got some black vinegar, too. Every time I go there I get something really strange and good. My husband has promised me a rice cooker for Christmas. I think I want a Zojirushi "neuro fuzzy logic" rice cooker.