It makes more sense to me to group things according to the cuisine. So for instance the soy sauce, the mirin, the dashi powder and even the sake, where allowed, should cosy up to one another on the shelves as they do in the dishes where they are used. I would hate to check four or five aisles to find all of these ingredients.
As a sidenote at least one of our Asian grocery stores segregates according to country. There is a Filipino section and a Japanese section and a Korean section but there’s no section called Western or European or Chinese. The Chinese can be explained in that what isn’t labelled otherwise is Chinese since it is run by Chinese people! Should I picket them and insist that there be something labelled Western?😂
