KurKure masala snacks from International Foods & Spices Sonia Parikh International Foods & Spices This gives you a great excuse to try popular restaurants in the same shopping plaza - or if you’re lucky, a Cantonese barbecue stall inside the grocery store. Make a day of it and get to know nearby Asian-owned shops and restaurants - larger grocery stores are often anchor tenants in immigrant business districts. These stores tend to also carry foods popular in other immigrant cuisines such as frozen yuca, tamales, and Goya products. Expand your culinary skills and palate with the naturally gluten-free rice, cassava, and gram flours, to name a few. While American consumers have started to embrace meat alternatives in the last two decades, these products have long been staples in AAPI cuisines, and Asian markets carry mind-blowing varieties including silky soft-to-firm tofu, canned fried gluten, and alternative meats shaped like their animal counterparts. Go beyond the international aisle at ACME and you’ll find much more variety, reasonable prices, and maybe even inspiration from fellow shoppers’ carts.įind expansive seafood options and specialty cuts at the butcher shop - and accompanying spices - to make braised tripe dim sum-style or congee with pork blood. Spicy Thai curry paste, warming masala, or Burmese sweet curry? Thanks to Philadelphia’s diverse Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, you can make dishes with all three.
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