On 6/17/2013 6:52 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> George Leppla wrote:
>> >
>> >Nope... didn't take any pictures,
> I was hoping you'd share your road trip.
>
>> >but we bought
>> >bottles and bottles of various sauces including tamarind paste which is
>> >almost impossible to find anywhere else. Hoisen sauce, fish sauce,
>> >oyster sauce, low-sodium soy sauce, sirracha sauce, chili/garlic paste,
>> >sweet soy sauce, some kind of sweet chili sauce and I'm sure I forgot
>> >something.... oh, sesame oil, rice wine vinegar... there were a lot of
>> >bottles.

> All those condiments can be bought on line and likely at lower
> prices... Amazon.com... and free shipping right to your door.

Of course they can be bought at Amazon... but what fun is that? That is
buying... we wanted to go "shopping". Like the difference between just
eating and dining.

It was a beautiful day... bright blue skys and light fluffy clouds. We
have been very busy with work and it was great to get away from the
house/office. One thing the Hong Kong Market has that you can never get
at Amazon is the excitement of being there. The smells in the vegetable
department... the meat department. Watching the lobster and crab tanks
and watching the men clean fresh fish to order. Real butchers working
on real cuts of meat that has never been cryovac'd.

The sight of hundreds and hundreds of different sauces, pastes and
potions.... many of which I have never heard of. The people watching is
the best. Becca struck up a conversation with an Asian lady about
making Pad Thai. Most of the people in the store were Asian or
Hispanic... except for us.

The far end of the store has a display of roasted ducks, chickens, ribs
and this time, there were racks of very small roasted birds... and one
half of a pig.

The smells in this store alone are worth the ride... even the smells
that aren't all that great!

Then lunch with Becca... a little more shopping in a store that we new
to us.... and a leisurely ride home where we talked about the world's
problems and decided we could solve most of them if we could just get
people to listen to us!

Get home, carry everything into the house and put everything away...
sampling some of the things we bought as we go along... then goofing off
the rest of the afternoon.

Sheldon, my friend... you can't get a day like that by ordering food
from Amazon.... even if they do ship for free!

George L