Tucked away in a tiny hidden strip mall between a car wash and the old Kmart store on Barnett Avenue in Medford, Asia Grocery Market has been serving the area s Asian food needs for 10 years. Asia Grocery Market. Tae K. Kang. But it s not just a place for the Korean native who misses his home town delicacies. It s a smorgasbord for creating the exquisite.
Taro root for making Hawaiian poi.
Crispy panko flakes for crunchy fried shrimp. Red chilies, galanga and lemon grass for a perfect Thai soup. For the Sushi chef, there s dried seaweed, the tiny bowls for dipping, and at least six different kinds of bean curd wrappers for those little rice pockets. There s wasabi up the wazoo, including 2-pound bags of the hot Japanese mustard enough to blow the roof off any Japanese meal. You can smell it better than the kind in the bag at the regular grocery store.