Last week, I went with my friends to the Mercado del Abastos in Guadalajara. The Abastos is a large(and I mean LARGE) wholesale and retail market. It spans for many, many blocks and is where you can find and buy all kinds of fresh fruits, vegetables, meats, seafood, imported goods, dry goods, baking supplies, well you get the idea. Its like Costo but with way more stuff and way bigger.
Well, the last few times I went, I was pretty happy because there is one vegetable stand that carries chinese vegetables like choi sum, gai lan, mustard green, shanghai bak choi, and the usual daikon and napa cabbage. Its hit or miss on what I find each time I go, but its a nice surprise everytime I go.
This last week, according to my friends, I was "positively glowing" because there was a new shop that carried all kinds of Chinese dry goods! And, for most items, I don't have to take out a mortgage to afford to buy them. They had chinese dried shrimp, mushrooms, pickled vegetables, chinese sausage, chinese bacon, jasmin rice, glutinous rice, rice flour, sweet rice flour and the list goes on. I was like a kid in the candy store with too many choices. Good thing I had extra cash!
Just in time for Chinese New Year. Right now, I have some pork belly marinading in the fridge. Tomorrow, we're having roast pork with the crispy crackling skin with hoisin sauce. Yum, yum!
Happy New Year and Kung Hei Fat Choy!!!
Friday, February 4, 2011
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Hola!
ReplyDeleteYou have a wonderful blog! Thanks for sharing with us your life abroad. I'm Mexican and truly love reading your blog. It inspires me somehow. Hope you will keep posting and enjoying your life in Mexico.
I agree with the above :) I'm Chinese and currently living in Vancouver, so your blog is quite inspiring for me. I didn't know there's Chinese foods in Mexico! It's great to hear that you're enjoying your life there. Would you mind sharing what you and your husband do for a living in Mexico?
ReplyDelete@ Anonymous 1: Thank you for letting me know that you've been enjoying my blog. I'm so sorry that I haven't been keeping up with the blog. Life is getting more and more busy for us here.
ReplyDelete@ Anonymous 2: Well, I wouldn't exactly call what they serve Chinese food, especially if you're Chinese and living in Vancouver!! The Mexicans seems to like what they get here so its all a matter of what you've been exposed to. Living here in Mexico have afforded me the luxury of working full time with no pay as cook, driver, nurse, personal shopper, tutor ... you get the picture. I'm loving the job though! According to my kids, my husband sits in front of the computer all day.
This post seemed quite old.
ReplyDeleteYour blog appeared jovial all the time.
I maybe mistaken but according from what I read, Mexico is a terrible country!
Hope you can verify.
Bye,
Yes, my poor blog has been neglected. I am still happily living in Mexico! My family and I feel very safe here. I am not sure what you have read but I can tell you that it is NOT a terrible country.
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear that.
ReplyDeletePerhaps I have been reading too much about the drug problems, especially around the northern border of the country.
Perhaps the area that you are living in which is around central Mexico is safer.
BTW, are you making Mexico your permanent domicile?
Hi I stumbled across your blog can you tell me where and what the market in Guadalajara is called that carried Chinese dry goods?
ReplyDeleteThanks!
Hello,
ReplyDeleteThe store is at the Mercado de Abastos. It does not have a name since it is one the stalls in the main market terminal. If you are familiar with the Abastos, this store is on calle 2 about 1/2 way down the block on your right. It is smallish stall across a vegetable stall. I hope this helps you.