I had a new shopping adventure in my All-American town yesterday. Ranch 99. For the uninitiated, it's a full blown grocery store chock-full of all things Asian to cook and eat. Not unexpectedly, the place was teeming with Asian-American shoppers but there were also other nationalities represented at the check-out. My son took me for a tour of the aisles.
The "animal" counter takes up one whole wall of the building, and offers an assortment of live, fresh and frozen fish, meat and fowl in shapes, sizes and varieties. I marveled that no part of the animal is left unused, and I wasn't sure if I wanted to know what some of those parts were.
Each aisle was a culinary adventure and the thought that kept running through my mind was ~ "I'm not in Kansas anymore!." It was certainly a 180 degree turn from the previous hour I had spent downtown at our farmer's market buying fresh peaches and strawberries!
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