So I decided to make a shrimp dish with coconut lemon and ginger for some
friends coming over tomorrow. The dish calls for 6 kaffir lime leaves. I
visited two Asian markets and called two others today and they are nowhere
to be found in my area.

What would be a good substitution? I've seen some stuff online that would
point to using lime zest instead and some other articles that said that it
wasn't a good replacement. Would I be better just leaving it out?

The first market I visited, a Korean supermarket, said they haven't been
able to get kaffir lime since last spring when FDA officials raided all the
Asian groceries in the region and confiscated all the lime leaves. WTF?

Jon