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Hong Kong Food Market,New Orleans
« Thread Started on Jan 15, 2012, 12:36pm »		[Quote]
New Orleans has a relatively small Asian community. It consists of mainly Thai, Taiwanese and Vietnamese persons. US Census bureau data,if one can rely upon it,(I'm very doubtful these figures are at all accurate especially in the Post Katrina diaspora).
The figure I found quoted Asian persons living in the NOLA Metropolitan area making up 5.2% of a population of 343,829.
Asian businesses 2.9%.
The major concentration of the Asian community resides in 2 areas,the West Bank of the Mississippi River and New Orleans East.

Over on the West Bank a large Asian food market sits plopped down amid a nondescript strip mall and services the areas population and a fair number of non Asian people like myself who seek out Asian delicacies not to be had in our regular generic supermarkets.
(There are also some of the areas finest Vietnamese cuisine to be had and we enjoyed a lunch at one of them before going to the market).
It's always an event for me to go and I don't have much occasion to get there because of it's location.
Anyway,this past Friday my dear friend and his 8 month old son took a trek over there and spent a good deal of time cruising the aisles. Previous visits to the market had been limited because the persons I accompanied had no intention of hanging out as long as I wanted to and towing a camera,forget it!!
I photographed the highlights of the market that our schedule allowed. There were some sections not covered in here but,I hope to return soon and do a follow up.

Compared to major cities,this particular market may not measure up in scale and intrigue,but,for us it's a treat here in this region.

Let's go!!

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Over the Crescent City Connection we go to the West Bank.

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My first purchase, a half dozen of these. Please note we're going to see some misspelled signs here. The majority of the employees here do not speak or write fluent English,which does pose a challenge when requesting a specific item. I had photos of some items I wanted to buy,it helped some, but, there were a few items I could not find.

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My next purchase,some Yellow Pompano.
The seafood selection here is fresh fresh!!

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Specialty noodle section. I was in search of noodles for Shanghai Noodles one of the recipes on our board. I still don't think I got the right ones. :-/

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Lots of bulk items!

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Kitchenwares. I am a sucker for utensils and gadgets. :-/ I bought some new ones while here.






































































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Re: Hong Kong Food Market,New Orleans
« Reply #1 on Jan 15, 2012, 1:09pm »		[Quote]
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On to the fresh produce section where we know we are going to do the most 'damage'. Both being rabid gardeners, there a number of items in here that we know we are going to be able to propagate and grown in our garden whether it be from seeds or rooting stems and,planting the tubers of several items.
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The little baby fingerling bananas were a 'godsend'[image] as they kept 8 month old Baby Roscoe quiet for the ride back home!!

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Fungi!!

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Near the checkout section there is a section where liquor,perfumes,colognes and sundries are clustered together in a massive hodgepodge!!

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It's time to go,we've been here a long time,the baby is getting restless and we're trying to beat rush hour on the bridge back!!!
(There are some sections of the store that I did not photograph as time did not allow. These are the stores highlights. There is an extensive dried,canned food section including so so many condiments to boggle the mind
. I'll be back soon!! :D
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Re: Hong Kong Food Market,New Orleans
« Reply #2 on Jan 15, 2012, 1:45pm »		[Quote]
WoW Casimira! You make my tongue hang out :D
Yes, I couldn't help noticing how the Chinese get things the other way around but it still makes a perfect explanation! Things like "parsly cursly" ;)
Nice to see was the incredible selection - for instance the bananas:
Not only the normal ones but Lady Fingers (short green stubby ones). I haven't tasted those for oinks, but know they have a different flavor to ordinary bananas.

Thanks so much for the supermarket tour!

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« Reply #3 on Jan 15, 2012, 1:54pm »		[Quote]
Nobody said anything about taking the photos?

Question - in post number 2, twelfth photo and sixteenth photo (cucumbers and stuff), there are long white vegetables (labelled Moup?) - what are they and what do you do with them?
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« Reply #4 on Jan 15, 2012, 2:40pm »		[Quote]
Thank you!
The signs are kinda cute I have to say,and at least you pretty much know what they are aiming for. The Asian culture here is not specifically Chinese here Tod. (In the beginning of the OP I note the demographic best I can). Being partially dyslexic myself,I can appreciate it even more.

The ladyfinger bananas are fabulous yes!! I generally like the generic bananas on the green side of ripeness as I think they take on a taste and texture I don't care for.
These however,ripe,sweet,and as I said,they saved a ride home back to the East bank from a wailing infant. I just kept giving him fingerfuls of these gems and he was very content.
I would like to give a go at trying to grow some here.

Mark,I was worried that photographing in the store might be an issue and I was prepared and sensitive to this. Nary an employee,manager,seemed to care.II took care not to aim at shoppers for the very reason I would generally not like someone aiming a camera at me at least not without asking anyway. There have been other stores where this was a major no no and I've been fiercely reprimanded for trying. I think they may think I'm price comparing or from a competitor.

Moup is a Thai okra. I've not had it.
I'm hoping that HWIPP or one of our other Asian food aficionados might be able to shed some more light on some of these delicacies.
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Re: Hong Kong Food Market,New Orleans
« Reply #5 on Jan 16, 2012, 5:57pm »		[Quote]
Mark, are you talking about Mooli or Daikon (the giant white things)? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daikon
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« Reply #6 on Jan 16, 2012, 6:00pm »		[Quote]
Thanks for taking us shopping with you, Casimira! I really enjoyed every picture. You'd have to push me out of that mall!
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« Reply #7 on Jan 16, 2012, 6:33pm »		[Quote]
That's wonderful. It is just like the Tang Frères supermarket in Paris. I would be a very regular customer if I lived in the area.

The next time I go to my own birthplace of the Mississippi gulf coast, I will try to look for this kind of place as well due to the large Vietnamese community. I did not realize the importance of the community until I went to some of the casinos and saw that the signs were in English, Spanish and Vietnamese.
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« Reply #8 on Jan 16, 2012, 6:36pm »		[Quote]
Thems'um Annie. I can get them here but didn't know what to do with them if I ever bought any. Now I know I can look and see.
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« Reply #9 on Jan 16, 2012, 9:39pm »		[Quote]

Jan 16, 2012, 6:33pm, kerouac2 wrote:
That's wonderful. It is just like the Tang Fr�res supermarket in Paris. I would be a very regular customer if I lived in the area.

The next time I go to my own birthplace of the Mississippi gulf coast, I will try to look for this kind of place as well due to the large Vietnamese community. I did not realize the importance of the community until I went to some of the casinos and saw that the signs were in English, Spanish and Vietnamese.


Was in your old stomping grounds today K2!!! Yes,there are alot of Vietnamese signs.

Thanks Annie!! :)
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« Reply #10 on Jan 19, 2012, 3:07pm »		[Quote]
It turns out that the noodles I got are not the ones called for in Imec's Shanghai Noodle recipe.
This is my 3rd try at finding the correct ones. >:(
Clearly,our Chinese cuisine is vastly different regionally than Canada.
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« Reply #11 on Jan 19, 2012, 6:18pm »		[Quote]
Your "Chinese" stuff is probably similar to the stuff in France, casi. That means that it really mostly Vietnamese of Chinese origin -- but most of them came from Canton, which is not at all the same style food as Beijing or Shanghai which is where a lot of the other communities in North America came from.

Americans who eat Chinese food in Paris often bitch that it "isn't authentic" simply because it is not from the same region of China that their favorite restaurant does. It's sort of like a Texan bitching about the quality of the food in Boston or a Louisiana Cajun complaining about the food in Idaho not being authentic.
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« Reply #12 on Jan 20, 2012, 11:48am »		[Quote]
I think you're right K2.
Even our so called "Chinese" restaurants have more of a Thai influenced bend. Rarely, if ever, does one see any Northern Chinese foods offered on menus and that would explain why the market doesn't offer these items either.
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« Reply #13 on Jan 21, 2012, 6:04am »		[Quote]

Jan 15, 2012, 2:40pm, casimira wrote:
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Mark,I was worried that photographing in the store might be an issue and I was prepared and sensitive to this. Nary an employee,manager,seemed to care.II took care not to aim at shoppers for the very reason I would generally not like someone aiming a camera at me at least not without asking anyway. There have been other stores where this was a major no no and I've been fiercely reprimanded for trying. I think they may think I'm price comparing or from a competitor.

Moup is a Thai okra. I've not had it.
I'm hoping that HWIPP or one of our other Asian food aficionados might be able to shed some more light on some of these delicacies.


If you look carefully you will see the sign with 'Moup' is actually on the shelf with the green vegetable. I think it's a gourd (my girlfriend says 'slice thinly then fry with egg and red onions ::)).

The white vegetable is radish.
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« Reply #14 on Jan 21, 2012, 9:01am »		[Quote]
Noted and yep, it's a radish thing. Thanks.
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