A few years ago, FOYs CandiceW and Trent told me that T&L Food, a wholesaler on Engineer Road right off of Ruffner Street, did general sales to the public. The subject at that time was frozen dumplings. It's something I filed away, but had never had the chance to follow-up on. Late last year...

With the the cost of ingredients, gas prices, and interest rates dropping, why are food manufacturers continuing to hike prices and shrink products? According to the L.A. Times, supermarkets don't know, but they're as pissed as we are. We noted in July that food prices were expected to rise. The jus...

Back home, in New York, I'd have left the store with a different breed of Oriental groceries. But I was visiting family in Santa Rosa, and some things — even thoroughly frozen, discreetly wrapped, and intended solely for my own consumption — just don't belong in an unsuspecting cousin's ...

Translated from Bahasa Malaysia, "24 jam" has nothing to offer your toast or crumpets. "Jam" means "hour," and that indication on the awning signals an all-day, all-night market. Newly arrived in Penang, I was amused to spot an American soft drink that's hard to find even in New York: Kickapoo Joy J...

Of course there's a tour-bus stop outside, though how Casa Della Mozzarella squeezes tour groups inside is beyond me. There's barely room to order, let alone browse, in this slender shop; conveniently, your principal buying decisions will simply be salted or unsalted, ball or bocconcini. The namesak...

Arrive as early as you please — the proprietor of this anonymous Williamsburg storefront will already be sitting by the front window, her cheesemaking done for the day. Georgia Tedone, now in her 90s, reportedly begins work before dawn to prepare her beloved fresh mozzarella ($6 per ball, which I ...

If you're a regular reader of mmm-yoso, you know I've been following the opening of Thuan Phat Supermarket in the for mer Vien Dong location.  Now that the crowds have c almed down a bit, we decid ed to check the place out.     First thing I noticed was th...

The mountain won't come to you. But climb to the second floor of this shrine to spices, seasonings, sweets, and snacks from six continents and many islands, and at Kalustyan's cozy café you can find your own mountain of mujaddara (moo-Jah-dah-rah; platter, $6.99, or $4.99 for a hillock, fitted into...

New England and Manhattan aren't the only chowders to choose from. At such a well-stocked seafood market, I was a little disheartened to discover that the Cajun crab and corn chowder (small; $3.50) relies on imitation crabmeat. (The seafood chowder, by contrast, claims salmon, pollack, clams, shrimp...

It's not unusual to see a worker shaving nopales, the spiny pads of the prickly pear cactus, on the sidewalk next to La Lomita's small, colorful outdoor produce display. (There's little room for prep work indoors; somehow this slender but well-stocked grocery has already shoehorned a taco and torta ...