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EUROPEAN FOODS Issagure (Italian fresh vegetables delivered from the farm) (online shop) http://shop.e-2way.com/issagure/index.jsp Oliva (Italian/Spanish) (online shop) http://www.rakuten.co.jp/oliva/ Grand Chef (online shop) http://www.webgrandchef.com/index.html Pan de Euro (online--frozen bread from Spain) http://www.style-i.net/spain/top.html Moomin (Finnish bakery with some Finnish food products) ("real" store only--Tokyo) http://www.chara-world.com/moomin_bc/main.html Baharia (mostly Turkish) (online/"real" store--Tokyo) http://www.baharu.com/baharia/indexEng.htm

LATIN AND SOUTH AMERICA Tocano (Brazilian Foods) ("real" shop --Yokohama) http://niki-kitchen.web.infoseek.co.jp/shop_t.html Vivas Latin Web Shop ( Online shop) http://www.vivas.jp/food/food.html Mundo Latino (online shop/"real" shop--Tokyo) http://www.musilatina.com/foods/htm/ Lead Off Japan (online shop) http://www.lead-off-japan.co.jp/japan/bizdevelop/index.htm

THAI FOODS (other Thai foods will be listed with shops in the General Asian category) Asia Superstore (online/"real" shop-- Tokyo) http://www.asia-superstore.com/ Jaithai (online/"real" shop--Osaka) http://www.jin.ne.jp/jaithai/ Mekonnkai (online/"real" shop--Chiba) http://www.mekonnkai.com/tuuhanntoppage.htm Erawan (online shop) http://www.erawan.itss.ac/ Floating Market (online shop) http://www.floatingmarket.net/ Asia Foods Ltd, Thai no Aji (online shop) http://www1.neweb.ne.jp/wa/asiafoods/index.htm Pickynu ("real" shop --Yokohama) http://www9.ocn.ne.jp/%7Epickynu/index.html Here is a list of Thai stores that do not have homepages: http://littleasia.fc2web.com/thaifoodshop/thaifoodshop.html

GENERAL ASIAN Murachin (Chinese and S.E. Asian) (online/"real" store--Tokyo) http://www.murachin.com/ Li ming (online/"real" store--Tokyo) http://www4.ocn.ne.jp/~liming/ Sejahtera (mostly Indonesian/Malaysian) (online) http://sejahtera.marsinna.com/ Fuji Store (Burmese/Indian) (online/"real" store--Tokyo) http://www.fujistore.jp/index.html Azhar Halal Foods (Indonesian/Malaysian) (online/"real" shop--Fukuoka) http://azhar.to/ Isuramu-nasuriin (Iran/Pakistan/Turkey/Malaysia/Indonesia/Saudi Arabia/Jordan/Syria) (Online shop) http://nasuriin.easy-magic.com/user/ Halal Food (S.E. Asian) (online) http://www1.ttcn.ne.jp/~trade-food.cars/e-halal.htm Sekai no Conbini (Asian snacks and tea) (online shop) http://www.tink-int.com/world/ A nice list of General Asian stores (with no homepages) http://www.ne.jp/asahi/miho/selamatmakan/e...sh/indexeng.htm click on ingredients and then the go to stores link Another list of stores not online, mostly Indonesian but general Asian as well, from all over Japan: http://www001.upp.so-net.ne.jp/warintok/makan/makan2.html More shops all in the Okubo (Shinjuku) area, mostly Chinese, witha map http://www.koueisha.co.jp/hyakunin/

VIETNAMESE FOODS (other Vietnamese foods will also be grouped with the South East Asian stores) Mekong Center ("real store"--Tokyo) http://www.mmjp.or.jp/mekongcenter/chidanbando.html

HALAL FOODS Baticrom (online) http://baticrom.com/ Sejahtera (mostly Indonesian/Malaysian) (online) http://sejahtera.marsinna.com/ Baharia (mostly Turkish) (online/"real" store--Tokyo) http://www.baharu.com/baharia/indexEng.htm Fuji Store (Burmese/Indian) (online/"real" store--Tokyo) http://www.fujistore.jp/index.html Azhar Halal Foods (Indonesian/Malaysian) (online/"real" shop--Fukuoka) http://azhar.to/ Isuramu-nasuriin (Iran/Pakistan/Turkey/Malaysia/Indonesia/Saudi Arabia/Jordan/Syria) (Online shop) http://nasuriin.easy-magic.com/user/ Halal Food (S.E. Asian) (online) http://www1.ttcn.ne.jp/~trade-food.cars/e-halal.htm Here is a great list of Halal food stores all over Japan, these are all "real" shops http://islamcenter.or.jp/common/Halalfoodstores.htm

BAKING GOODS Tomizawa (online shop/"real" shop--Tokyo/Kanagawa) http://www.tomizawa.co.jp/

BRITISH FOODS The Brit Shop (online shop) part of FBC (The Foreign Buyer's Club) http://brit.fbcusa.com/ British/Scottish (online shop) Expat shopping http://www.expatshopping.com/

GENERAL INTERNATIONAL TYPE FOODS OUTSIDE OF TOKYO Foreign Buyer's Club (online shop/ "real" shop--Kobe) http://www.fbcusa.com/public2/ Yamaya (online shop/"real" stores all over Japan) http://www.yamaya.co.jp/ Meidiya ("real" stores all over Japan) http://www.meidi-ya.co.jp/default.htm

ONLINE SHOPPING FOR MEATS The Meat Guy Store http://themeatguy.jp/ Gourmet Meat shop http://www.gourmet-meat.com/ Jingisukan-web (lamb only) http://www.29notoyo.co.jp/index.html Japan Meat http://www.japanmeat.com/

KOREAN FOODS Kankoku Hiroba　(online shop/ "real" shop--Tokyo) http://www.kankokuhiroba.co.jp/ Saikabo (online/"real" shop--Tokyo) http://www.saikabo.com/ Lee-ya (online/"real" shop--Tokyo) http://www.lee-ya.net/kimuchi/ Kimchee House (online/"real" shop--Fukuoka) http://www.kimuchi-house.com/ Korea Food Shop (online/"real" shop--Kyoto) http://www.kyo-ei.net/index.html Korean Foods (online/"real" shop--Kyoto) http://www.kimuti-kimuti.com/index.htm Kinsen (online/"real" shop--Aichi-ken) http://www.kin-sen.jp/ Kanpati (online/"real" shop--Kobe) http://www.kanpati.com/index.htm Kimchee House (online/"real" shop--Kobe) http://www.adonai-kimchi.co.jp/index.htm Kimchee Mart (online shop/ "real" shop--Osaka/Nagoya) http://www.kimchimart.net/ Kimchi land (online/"real" shop--Osaka) http://www.kimuchi-land.net/ Takayatomi (online/"real" shop--Osaka) http://www.takayamatomi.com/ Kimchee Oukoku (online shop/"real" shop--Osaka) http://www.kimchishop.net/index.html/ Kimchee Kurabu (online shop from Kyoto) http://www.kimchi-club.com/

AFRICAN FOODS African Foods House (Ghanaian & Nigerian foods) (online shop) http://www.kawachiya-foods.com/africa/

GENERAL INTERNATIONAL IN THE TOKYO AREA Nissin World Delicatessen http://www.nissinham.co.jp/nwd/index.html Precce http://www.tokyu-store.co.jp/precce/ Carrefour http://www.carrefour.co.jp/ Kinokuniya http://www.e-kinokuniya.com/cont/index_e.html National Azabu/Supermarket Den-en http://www.tfc.co.jp/hiroba/shopping/info.html National Azabu’s online shop http://store.yahoo.co.jp/national/index.html Seijo Ishii http://www.seijoishii.co.jp/ The Garden Jiyugaoka http://www.garden.co.jp/ Hillside Pantry Daikanyama (online/"real" shop) http://www.rakuten.co.jp/pantry/ Miura-ya (online/"real" shop) http://www.miuraya.com/ Meidiya ("real" stores in Tokyo and other areas of Japan) http://www.meidi-ya.co.jp/default.htm Kawachiya http://www.kawachiya-foods.com/main/kow.htm Carnival (online shop) I know there are "real" shops in Yokohama but I can't seem to find any information about locations.... http://www.carnival.co.jp/~shop/ Kaldi Farms (online shop as well as stores all over Kanto and a couple outside as well) http://www.kaldi.co.jp/top.html Yamaya (online/ "real" shops all over Tokyo as well as the rest of Japan) http://www.yamaya.co.jp/ Niku no Hanamasa (all over Kanto) http://www.hanamasa.co.jp/company/sm/index.html Tanakaya (mostly wines but some imported foods) (online/"real" shop) http://www.tanakaya3.com/tanakaya/Flame.htm Foods Shop Watabe (online/"real" shop--Ikebukuro, Akihabara) http://www.watabe-shouten.co.jp/

I want to use this thread to make a list of stores in which we can find non-Japanese type foods. This is for either stores or online shops please feel free to add some of your own favorites or send them to me for inclusion as I may try to combine things for easier reading. Most of the stores I have experience with are in the Tokyo area so please so if you have information for others cities please add it. I will try to organize them by category, General International, Korean, Thai, Indian, etc... This is a work in progress so please bear with me!

yeah, sometimes it is in cans too I actually like the blue can called Royal Milk Tea hot from the vending machine.

Friday dinner: baked chicken pieces coated with EVOO, parmesan cheese, and garlic and then drizzled with a basalmic-butter sauce mashed potatoes slowcooked green beans, carrots, onions and tomatoes with EVOO and lemon juice dinner rolls (from Costco)

word for 12/6: 洋梨　　ようなし younashi (yo-nash-shee) You means Western and the nashi of course refers to the Japanese pear, thus yonashi means Western pear, of what is just commonly referred to in English as pear. These are quite popular in Japan and though some are imported most are grown here. the most popular with something like 75% of the pear market is the variety called La France (ra furansu in Japanese), it's short season runs mid-November through December. La France: http://www.informatics.tuad.ac.jp/net-expo...e/lafrance.html

tea with milk added, as compared to the other ways of drink black teas in Japan lemon tea straight tea (nothing added) So when you go to McDonalds and order an iced tea they will ask you if you want lemon tea or milk tea, then they will plop either a little tub of fake cream or a small packet of fake lemon juice on your tray. I prefer mine straight!

Carrefour homepage: http://www.carrefour.co.jp/ Precce homepage: http://www.tokyu-store.co.jp/precce/

melokheya (and its other hundred spellings! ) is in practically every Japanese supermarket. I am not completely sure of its season but it seems like a summer vegetable. During the summer I was buying it from various places at only 100yen for a bag! and at what seemed it's peak it was going for 2 bags at 100yen. you might just have to wait until next summer, though my local Seikyo Co-op does sell it frozen.... Though I wasn't specifically looking for it, I never noticed it at any of the International supermarkets. I do find most of their vegetables so overpriced. I have given up on using things like celeriac and parsnips because they aren't worth the $10 a piece they charge. Pretty good prices on some of the more "unusual" produce can be found at Carrefour and Precce stores if you have any near you.

Ok this is not really food related but someone just opened an educational toys store at the nearby "mall" and they have named the store Poop & Pee I am not kidding! here is their website: http://www.poop-pee.net/

Thursday night: Pizza from Costco

4 more for me! I didn't buy them though a friend who doesn't cook much gave them to me Woman's Day Japanese Cooking The Fine Art of Japanese Cooking --Dekura All Colour Baking Book --British book with no author The Hostess Cookbook --Ager and Westland

Here is another pizza no-no, it happened to me last night. I was trying to transfer a large slice of pizza from the cookie sheet to the cutting board with a spatula. With a cookie sheet in one hand and a spatula in the other, I had no choice but to try to catch the falling slice by thrusting my hips forward to try to trap it at the counter. Luckily I was wearing pants the bad thing is that they were white!

word for 12/5: 梨　なし nashi (nah-shee) Usually referred to as an Asian pear or pear apple in English, this fruit native to China, thas too many varieties in Japan to count. Ok maybe they can be counted but there are still a huge number. They are generally divided into two groups, the red ones (more of a brown) and the blue ones (more of a green or yellow depending on the variety). The most common size is probably a little bigger than a baseball, though I have seen some that are too big to hold in the palm of your hand. In Japan they are always peeled before eating their crispy yet juicy flesh. They have quite a short seasonal and are available only from the end of summer into very early fall. the " blue" nashi: http://www.maruka-ishikawa.co.jp/images/ve...ure/nijuss2.jpg the "red" nashi http://www.maruka-ishikawa.co.jp/images/ve...re/nansui10.jpg