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| - Don't be fooled by the Chinese name, Yue-Wah is the answer to nearly all of your near east, far east, central and south american cooking needs and more. If you require special ingredients not typically found at your regular grocery store, Yue Wah offers fair prices and a wide selection. Actually, if you use any spices at all, this could be your spot.
A sampling of their dry goods includes: sesame candy, bulk rice, rose water, horchata mix, Turkish Delight. They sell sumac for your zatar, cinnamon sticks for your chai, dried fungus and dates for your herbal soups. In canned goods they have all the red sauces, pickles for rice porridge, and ingredients for halo-halo.
Their produce aisle includes some necessary ingredients for Pho, like culantro and bean sprouts. I can count on one hand the number of places I've seen culantro in the Midwest. There is a frozen food section where you can buy all the ice pops (red bean and coconut, Melona), ready-made food products (samosas, roti), frozen seafood. They also have labneh, Chinese sweet sausages, and thousand-year-old egg.
It might be a little overwhelming if you don't know exactly what you're looking for, but the store owners are genial and willing to help. I noticed they didn't have very many Korean specific products and asked if they stocked gochujang. They kindly told me their supplier stopped selling the smaller containers, but they seemed confident they'd have gochujang by next year, and directed me to the Korean grocery store up the street in the meantime.
Most importantly, they sell instant ramen by the case, and stock many flavors other stores only dream about. This concludes the story of how I ended up with a box of 21 ramens.
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