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 wonderful 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, flours, ready-made soups and other prepared foods, ramen noodles, etc. Also they have a freeze/ refrigerator section with various kinds of Korean style dumplings, fish cake, kimchi, and some seafood things. There’s even a wall of various teas from Korea. They also stock a few Japanese things and other Asian ingredients such as Sriracha sauce and fish sauce.
Things are about $1-4 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 Korean soup 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.