From: viviana@igor.tamri.com (Vivian Aldridge)
Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
Subject: Summary of Places to Buy Thai Ingredients
Date: 10 Nov 92 16:26:32 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: TOSHIBA America MRI, South San Francisco, CA

The following is a list of markets in the SF Bay Area:
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From hal@nmrsys.apldbio.com  Tue Oct 20 18:33:18 1992

The Bangkok Grocery on Geary has Thai ingredients (mostly canned);
Pacific Supermarket
in Daly City (Colma?) has lots of things for various Asian cuisines
(good seafood too);
I've seen lemon grass at several produce markets in my
neighborhood (Sunset).

Pacific Market
1420 Southgate Ave
Daly City

Pacific market
994 Geary Blvd
San Francisco


From troyer@piglet.mmwb.ucsf.EDU  Thu Oct 22 12:54:01 1992

>Where can I buy ingredients such as lemon grass,
>chile peppers, kaffir lime leaves, shrimp paste (Kapee)??

One interesting place is on Mission and 17th or 18th, on the
west side of the street. A little blue awning, and the last time
I looked, right by a building being renovated, and so easy to miss.

It's a little grocery, either Thai or Cambodian (I forget).
But it has all the requisite ingredients.


From dfuden@fudenberg.net.com  Fri Oct 16 11:53:26 1992

There's a whole chain of Chinese markets, forget the name, in chinatown, that carry some of the stuff. There is also Bangkok Grocery, on the North side of geary, somewhere out between 1st and 13th streets. If you are ever in berkeley,check out erewan market on university.


- there's also places in oakland chinatown.

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From igor!sgi!decwrl!decwrl!apple!mumbo.apple.com!gallant.apple.com!jensmac.apple.com!jens_alfke Fri Nov  6 08:48:24 PST 1992

I got a few tips on where to find those Kaffir lime leaves, and a few
requests to share any info I got, so I'll summarize:

>From jyc@leo.Stanford.EDU (Jon Corelis):
I've bought them frozen at the New Castro Market on Castro near Dana
in Mountain View.  It was some time ago, but they probably still have
them.

>From "Piper" <dlema@twg.com>:
I think most Vietnamese groceries carry them; try Dai Thanh (sp?) in
downtown San Jose.  That's where I got them.

>From Kathy Walrath <Kathy_Walrath@NeXT.COM>:
I don't know of a place in the South Bay.  If you get desperate enough,
or if you  
happen to be in San Francisco, there's a place on Geary that's a Thai
grocery store.  I  
believe it's called "Thai Market" or "Bangkok Market" or something like
that.  It's on  
the north side of Geary, a few blocks west of Masonic.  I think they have
a white sign  
that sticks out perpendicular to the store front.  
They seem to have mostly dried, canned, and frozen foods -- not many
fresh foods.  I  
got frozen pandanus leaves and kaffir lime leaves there, plus many other
Thai  
ingredients such as shrimp paste and palm sugar.

>From platt@synaptics.com (John Platt):
Try Tin Tin Market on El Camino, in Mountain View, between Dale Avenue
and Bernardo (south of the 85).. I believe I bought my (dried) Keffir
lime leaves there.. You would like Tin Tin: it's full of slack.

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From dsouza@hplrds.hpl.hp.com  Tue Nov  3 12:19:30 1992

An oriental store in the south bay (Manila Oriental Foods, in Sunnyvale)
has a collection of canned Thai sauces and curry pastes.
I have tried regular cooking as well as stir frying using these sauces,
and they have worked out very well.

Basically I heat oil in a wok, season with chopped ginger/garlic/red chillies,
then add a variety of veggies and some lemon grass. Towards the end I
add some of that canned Thai curry paste. 
Sometimes I also add turmeric and unsweetened coconut milk.
My wife likes to take my veggie dish and add fish sauce to it.

I think I can reproduce some of the veggie dishes in local Thai restaurants
using variations of this basic recipe.

You might be able to find these sauces/pastes in in a local oriental store.

Regards,

Roy
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From:viviana@tamri.com

A great place to buy spices, canned goods etc that are Chinese, Thai,
Polynesian is EBJ--The Food Source Warehouse Cash and Carry.  Business shops
and restaurants buy from here, but it is also open to the public.
In addition, there is usually parking and no lines!
Its located at 301 Toland, SF (near intersection of highway 101 and
Army Street.)
824-0336

Mon-Sat 6am-6pm
Sun 9am-5pm