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TL;DR: here's what I got
So today was one of the rare days I am off from any kind of duty (wether it be college or work) so I decided to spend the day visiting the surroundings because even if it has been nearly 15 years I've lived in the same city I never really bothered looking around to see what's up.
About 20 minutes from my house there's a city that is very multicultural. In fact, it's almost a running gag to claim the city itself is a "China Town" because it's literally overrun by asians. But there's indians muslims and whatsoever there, you name it there's a great chance you'll find it.
So I started driving around and from afar saw Kim Phat. I'm like lolwut and decided to check out what it was. Obviously from outside I could see it was some kind of grocery store/market because well, people were coming out with bags and there were grocery baskets scattered around the premises.
Anyways, I enter and I'm greeted by some kind of recording machine who tells me "Hi welcome to Kim Phat Superstore" in like 10 languages. I'm kinda stunned, wondering what the hell just happened while a cute japenese couple stared at me almost laughing because I was obviously a noob. I was kinda wierded out when I noticed the god damn thing was still greeting me even if I was 30 feet away.
As I walk by the alleys I'm really fucking amazed. This ain't no asian market every ramen blog talks about, it's an actual grocery store with a fruit section, fresh fish and meat, and an actual bakery which let out an awesome smell.
I figured I might as well buy something 'cause this doesn't happen everyday, and teamliquid instantly pops to mind. SHIN RAMYUN SHIN RAMYUN SHIN RAMYUN SHIN RAMYUN SHIN RAMYUN zergs my mind as I slowly search it through the hundreds of choices of Ramen and Udon. A kind-looking middle aged chinese lady approached me and throwing all sorts of questions at me. Armed with my awful mandarin I introduced myself and asked her to speak slowly.
"CHINESE GOOD" she said, "WHAT YOU SEARCH?".
"Shin Ramyun?"
"HMMMM" she pondered. "HAO RAMEN YES?"
"hen hao?"
"hen hao."
She pointed me to the good stuff and before I left she said "SHIN RAMYUN HAO, MY RAMEN HEN HAO". I smiled and walked along trying to look for more of the good stuff.
Before leaving I had to pass by the bakery. Man, so much choice. Tons of cakes that would yell my name if they knew it.
The ironic thing about them is that in Quebec, every in-store made product has to have labels and a list of ingredients in at least French and some places push it to both French and English. However, 1. I was probably the only white guy in the store and 2. the city, while being notorious for it's overpopulations of immigrants, has some english people that come from other provinces of Canada. So all the tags were in French yet I bet those tags are useful to uhh, the 0.01% who come to the store by curiosity.
So TL.net, any Ramen/Udon/cake/whatever suggestions for when I make another trip to that awesome store? :D
 
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shin ramyun..
This is what GTR suggested somewhere else, right?
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Hong Kong20321 Posts
i love the yellow bread on the bottom right corner T_T
if its available , try to get a pastry/bread thing that looks like this
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Hm, i actually like udong more than ramen, but they're both good. As for suggestions, there's this awesome ice cream that I used to buy when I went to Korean supermarkets called 'mochi ice cream.' It's basically a small circular piece of dduk (not sure if you know what that is >.< and I don't know the translation in English) filled with either vanilla, strawberry, or chocolate ice cream. However, I remember it being pretty pricey. Anyway, enjoy chowing down, hope you're sharing all that with someone.
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red bean bread & peanut butter that really isnt peanut butter bread are my favorites at korean bakeries :D
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On May 27 2009 06:29 freelander wrote:
shin ramyun..
This is what GTR suggested somewhere else, right?
no clue, but there's a lot of fanboyism for it in http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=30466
On May 27 2009 06:31 alffla wrote:i love the yellow bread on the bottom right corner T_T if its available , try to get a pastry/bread thing that looks like this
what are they filled with? looks sooooooo good
and oh god that bread was good. wish I had taken more >_>
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Hong Kong20321 Posts
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wtf @ childhood foods
i ate soy sause and rice every day O_O
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Hong Kong20321 Posts
also if u can find this brand Ting Yi (aka Master Kong or Kang-shi-fu, > > 康師傅 < < it is a chinese brand of instant noodles, has tons of different flavours : )
YUM
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Hong Kong20321 Posts
On May 27 2009 06:50 HeavOnEarth wrote:
wtf @ childhood foods
i ate soy sause and rice every day O_O
u were a neglected child then
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Hong Kong20321 Posts
and of course you can't miss this instant noodle
NISSIN brand, the original fuckin instant noodle from japan!!!!
i know we're all korea lovers on this forum but when it comes to food gotta try it all man
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I think I'm the only member of Team Liquid that doesn't like Shin Ramyun.
Sapporo Ichiban all the way.
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ahfaiohsdqw coconut pastry is awesome. I really regret not taking a single one home 
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I don't like the spicy stuff I like mine salty and chickentastyish
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theres tons of those kids of supermarkets here in toronto but they're more chinese then anything else. theres even a chain of them called TNT with a whole bunch of locations in the city
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Baa?21242 Posts
I read this thread and went to make ramen. Tasty things! ^_^
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On May 27 2009 06:50 alffla wrote:Show nested quote +On May 27 2009 06:50 HeavOnEarth wrote:
wtf @ childhood foods
i ate soy sause and rice every day O_O u were a neglected child then
well its not like i didn't have food ..D:
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Edit; nvm
Misjudged the stars for the spiciness rating. All of the ramen they have in their "recommended" section have 3.5/5 as well though (haven't seen a single 4 star, let alone 5) so I wouldn't mark their rating as a negative point.
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it got 3.5/5 for strongness (how spicy it is)
it's in the recommended section too so...yeah.
edit: beaten to the punch.
I think the best section is 4 stars...?
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Baa?21242 Posts
KangShiFU makes much spicier stuff. I think Tong Yi has some really spicy ones too.
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5/5 for trying, 0/5 for nutrition.
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Hahaha
Hao = Good
Hen hao = very good
It's so awkward going to stores with asian parents =S
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On May 27 2009 09:10 Dead9 wrote:
Hahaha
Hao = Good
Hen hao = very good
It's so awkward going to stores with asian parents =S
yeah I know that lol, aside from greetings some discussion and very basic everyday stuff I'm pretty horrible at mandarin. which is why when she started using a mix of english and mandarin I was like lollllll im bad QQ
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I dig Shin Ramyun, it isn't the top shelf but definitely the new standard once you realize what garbage the maruchan/top ramen is.
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NeverGG
United Kingdom5399 Posts
I love those little custard pies from Lotte - they make a nice change from chocopies.
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I just ate some Shin ramen after reading all these blogs, it was the first time I put eggs in in a long time too. It was yum.
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So today I felt like eating fresh udon, so during lunch break I went to a small restaurant called Koryo. It was sooooooooooo good. I've went there a couple of times so the guy who makes it always tries to start conversations with me, today was "Lee Young Ho is better than Lee Jae Dong" in his broken Konglish. Needless to say we laughed about it and ended up just agreeing Lim Yo Hwan is the best.
Awesome udon with bbq'd chicken, pickled tofu, gyeram jjim, bean sprouts, brocoli, carrots and red onions topped with sesame seeds and some sweet sauce which I always forget the name.
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On May 29 2009 02:41 SwEEt[TearS] wrote:So today I felt like eating fresh udon, so during lunch break I went to a small restaurant called Koryo. It was sooooooooooo good. I've went there a couple of times so the guy who makes it always tries to start conversations with me, today was "Lee Young Ho is better than Lee Jae Dong" in his broken Konglish. Needless to say we laughed about it and ended up just agreeing Lim Yo Hwan is the best. Awesome udon with bbq'd chicken, pickled tofu, gyeram jjim, bean sprouts, brocoli, carrots and red onions topped with sesame seeds and some sweet sauce which I always forget the name.
Wow, that looks and sounds quite amazing.
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Northern Ireland22208 Posts
Good to see you got the shrimp cracker things 
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On May 27 2009 09:41 NeverGG wrote:
I love those little custard pies from Lotte - they make a nice change from chocopies.
nothing beats 초코파이 
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