seshat's blog post - Go Asia

Well, I had to go down to the unemployment agency today, as they said that they had a suitable job opening for me. After that meeting I decided to do some food shopping, I had heard that there were some Asian supermarkets nearby. I got a recipe book for Christmas with all sorts of exotic dishes, often with unknown ingredients, so I wanted to see if I could find some. Boy oh boy, I didn't know where to look first...

After restraining myself considerably, I ended up buying for only 15 euros. Admittedly, not everything was exotic or exclusively to be found there, but still a good shopping spree

- lychee wine
- orange flavoured gelatin dessert (jello I was feeling nostalgic for it, I haven't seen it in ordinary supermarkets here I think)
- sweet chili sauce
- canned banana blossoms
- canned mangosteens
- dried tamarind
- a powder for making green tea ice cream
- a can of lotus seed/red date tea
- fennel seeds
- whole coriander seeds
- cinnamon sticks

And I saw sooooooo many other things I'd like to try, all sorts of things that I'd never even heard of. Experimenting, I love it.