Great online Asian food store?
June 13, 2008 7:36 AM Subscribe
My friend lives in the rural West Virigina and is missing seaweed.
She and her family used to regularly care for exchange students when they lived elsewhere, many of them from Korea. I'd like to either order her some seaweed as a surprise or at least give her a list of great online stores. I have never shopped Asian food online, so I'm looking for places you've had great experiences with or the known go-to shops. She spoke of the seaweed sheets and the seaweed packed with a bit of oil and salt? Thanks from a newbie in advance....
She and her family used to regularly care for exchange students when they lived elsewhere, many of them from Korea. I'd like to either order her some seaweed as a surprise or at least give her a list of great online stores. I have never shopped Asian food online, so I'm looking for places you've had great experiences with or the known go-to shops. She spoke of the seaweed sheets and the seaweed packed with a bit of oil and salt? Thanks from a newbie in advance....
I've bought Asian foodstuffs (like pho boullion and rice noodles) from amazon.com before. The dried seaweed sheets - I'm assuming they're talking about the kind used to make sushi? - are pretty darn common, they should be there.
posted by GardenGal at 8:02 AM on June 13, 2008
posted by GardenGal at 8:02 AM on June 13, 2008
Amazon does sell many kinds of seaweed, including nori and Kombu, and fun things like
"Sea's Gift Korean Seaweed Snack, Roasted & Sea Salted" which sounds so good I almost ordered it myself.
posted by Mngo at 8:32 AM on June 13, 2008
"Sea's Gift Korean Seaweed Snack, Roasted & Sea Salted" which sounds so good I almost ordered it myself.
posted by Mngo at 8:32 AM on June 13, 2008
One of the largest Korean grocery store chains in the U.S.: H Mart
Ready to eat toasted laver
Whole sheets for making nori or gimbab
posted by needled at 9:24 AM on June 13, 2008
Ready to eat toasted laver
Whole sheets for making nori or gimbab
posted by needled at 9:24 AM on June 13, 2008
if your friend lives near the town of huntington, there's a tiny international market there that sells a lot of japanese and middle eastern groceries. blink and you'll miss it. it's on the route 60 east, right before a blockbuster and gino's. it's called, appropriately, "international market". haha. but they have a lot of things your friend might miss. it's not something you can actually send her, but she might appreciate the information. it was there as of november 2007 :)
posted by kerning at 12:03 PM on June 13, 2008
posted by kerning at 12:03 PM on June 13, 2008
Response by poster: Thank you all! These answers are perfect. I will use them myself and send them her way. Thanks too for the local store tip, kerning.
posted by allthingsbright at 4:57 PM on June 13, 2008
posted by allthingsbright at 4:57 PM on June 13, 2008
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