Afra’s star feature is the huge sangak flatbread oven at the very back of the store. It is easy to miss since the entrance way is a nearly hidden doorway tucked into the an area that looks very much “employees only”. The oven is indeed an impressive sight – twenty feet of sheet stainless steel [...]
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Market Watch: Angel Seafoods – Japanese Frozen Sashimi Emporium
[I have already written up Angel Seafoods here and at other blogs. I am starting this new corpus on ethnic grocery stores I have decided to write about it again within this new context. - ed.] Situated in the oddly misplaced Glengarry Glen Ross-like location, Angel Seafoods is a sushi hobbyist’s dream come true. All [...]
Market Watch: Los Guerreros – Latin American and Mexican Grocery on Kingsway
This Salvadoran and Colombian-owned grocery store has a nicely curated stock of Latin American and Mexican goods. You will find the usual, more familiar brands such as Goya and La Costena here along with more obscure (for Vancouver) labels such as Rosarita, Sara and Dona Maria. They have an impressive array of bagged specialty [...]
Market Watch: Shop Sri Lankan at Thurga on Fraser St
Thurga Mini-Market and Video doesn’t look like much from the outside. The barbershop that takes up half the storefront, but is really only about ten feet deep, makes the grocery store behind it look deceptively small from the street. The entrance is dominated by a chest freezer filled with various seafoods and frozen vegetables. To [...]
Market Watch: Go Crazy at Big Crazy Supermarket in Richmond
All cooks who dabble in Chinese cuisine should know about Richmond’s Big Crazy. Its odd English name describes the place well. The chaotically organized aisles are well stocked with a tumble of products imported mainly from Mainland China. The range of merchandise here differs significantly from T&T Supermarket which markets primarily to immigrants from Hong [...]
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