I thought it was just in my neck of the woods that small ethnic grocery stores were the place to go for the hard to find supplies I need for my multicultural cooking and lifestyle. It seems that all over the country, folks are traveling to seek out small markets to find Sriracha sauce, real leaf lard, weird and tasty candy, black chickens, exotic produce, interesting spices, and Asian condiments. This is the exact opposite of one trend I reported recently where some neighborhood grocery stores are tailoring their wares to fit the local cultural profile. These are stores that focus on specific products, and people seek them out for what they consider traditional foods or for items that are difficult to come by in the more generic supermarkets.
I have a few places I go to and they aren't just smaller places like my local New Golden Village in Scarsdale and Meiji-Ya in Hartsdale, NY. There is Kam Sen Asian Market with locations in Flushing and White Plains, NY and the large, if not enormous purveyor of ethnic foods like Mitsuwa Marketplace in Edgewater, NJ, one of nine locations in three states, primarily CA. So, do you have specialized ethnic markets that you seek out in your area?
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