New Korean Grocery Store in town!
August 10th, 2009 by Jihye Chang
Yes, that’s right! A Korean grocery store, not an Asian grocery store - here in Fargo!
I love eating all kinds of food, but I am a Korean at heart (naturally) and I crave Korean foods periodically. It’s been wonderful living in Fargo, but the grocery situation has not been too hot. I have had to order so many times from H-Mart online, which is highly over-priced, whenever I needed Korean pepper paste (Gochu-jang), Korean style noodles, etc. But now with the help of this little store, I won’t need to order anything from H-Mart for a long time.
This store is called “Everyday Mart”, and is located on the 10th St., between 7th and 8th Ave N. There used to be a sign that said “Maeil Mart” (in Korean) for a long time without anything inside the store. I saw an “Open” sign lit when I was driving a few weeks ago, and today I decided to check it out. It is operated by two very nice Korean ladies, and they have walls of nicely arranged sauces, oils, soups, seaweeds, pastes, rice, noodles, instant ramens and udons, flours, ready-made soups and other prepared foods, canned fish, etc. Also they have a freezer/ refrigerator section with various kinds of Korean style frozen dumplings, frozen fish cake, jars of kimchi, a few side dishes (seasoned dried radish, seasoned sesame leaves, spicy salted squid and so on) and some frozen fish, meat, and seafood mix. There’s even a wall of various teas from Korea. They also stock a few Japanese sauces and other Asian ingredients such as Sriracha sauce and fish sauce.
Things are about $1-3 cheaper (depending on what you are buying) than H-Mart online or the Asian American grocery store on Main.) - I am going to be a happy cook in the kitchen!
P.S. They keep only napa-cabage that’s needed for making kimchi or bean sprouts in the vegetable section. This is a store for sauces, seasonings, basic grains for cooking Korean style food, not a store for fresh produces.
707 10th St
Fargo, ND 58102-4319
(701) 232-2266
I remember that, after Sarasota, you gave me your mother’s (grandmother’s?) marinated beef recipe and it was AMAZING and then I promptly lost the recipe. Can you, by chance, give it to me again?
Hi Jihye,
I am listening to your piano music since I got up today. It’s so wonderful. You are such a great musician. I love the way you make piano sound. I can listen to your music all day long. Thank you for sharing it with us.
Korean Grocery store! Wow!!! I can feel the joy you are feeling. Have a great time cooking and eating. Last week I made “bulgogi” and we ate it with the lettues (spelling?). Very tasty.
hmingi
Cara - I will post the bulgogi recipe soon. I have not made it in ages, actually.
Hmingi - thanks so much for your comments. Actually a lot of those pieces in the CDs I sent you are going to be out as a 2-CD set soon. I will send you a copy when available! It’s great you can make bulgogi! Have you been to the new super H-Mart in Houston? I think it’s one of the biggest ones in America! You should go and have fun there. It’s really an amazing store with so much to look around. Next time I go to Houston, maybe we should go there together.