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| - Ok. Parking alert. Not to beat an ethnic stereotype to death but the last time I came here I waited for some woman to navigate into the parking space right next to mine. It took her ten tries I kid you not. Her daughter finally got out of the car and expertly guided her in like those dudes with flags guiding a plane into its proper space. Thank goodness. Other times I feel like I didn't get the memo that there was a take-no-prisoners free-for-all demolition derby going on. But heck with that - even that isn't enough to scare me away from this place. I love it. I usually come here for food first. There's only freaking ten million choices: Taiwan Food Express, Wholly Grill, Hue Gourmet, UnPHOgettable, Deer Garden Signature, Thai Spices, Kong Fu Gyoza, Com Tam Thuan Kieu, Tea, Snow & Coffee, Mekong Palace, Mekong Sandwiches, etc. Most of which I haven't even bothered to try because I'm so hung up on Hue Gourmet. Maybe one day I'll have tried everything on their menu so I can move on. All the food choices alone make this the place to go instead of Lee Lee's or Asiana anymore. Then I mozy on over to Mekong Supermarket. Lots of cool stuff in the meat and seafood department. I'll sometimes get unagi, seaweed salad or surf clam - whatever they have on special. If you like meats not always found in regular supermarkets they have lamb, duck, venison, rabbit, squab, veal, partridge, boar, and quail. Lots of Chinese and Japanese foods. Alcohol section has lots of Asian beers including Beer Lao - that used to be really hard to find in Arizona. The vegetables and fruits area has all sorts of usual Asian grocery store suspects: enoki mushrooms, persian cucumbers, shredded papaya for papaya salads (if you roll your own), and pineapples usually cheaper than regular grocers. There's a whole section of potato chips with all sorts of weird flavors you won't find at Safeway or Fry's - Takoyaki and squid flavors were the favorites of the ones I've tried. Then there's culture clash from which hilarity ensues. Some words have a whole different meaning in another culture. Exhibit A: Filipino steamed rice cake mix in a box labelled PUTO. Might be funny if you're Mexican. Otherwise you'll just hear a noise overhead going woosh. Then there's Exhibit B: that Jamaican treat. A company called Grace puts it out and according to the website, that very product is for the American market. Really? Can you market a soup called "Cock Flavored Soup Mix" with a straight face? What's even weirder is they also have "Chicken Flavored Soup Mix" so do they taste different? Or is that OTHER flavor really what is says it is? I wouldn't know. But maybe even that tastes like chicken. I'll have to take someone else's word for it. If you wanna get some for fun and games at the next white elephant at work it's in aisle 5B where the Hawaiian, Jamaican and Mexican stuff is. I think out of embarrassment they hide that box behind everything else so you may need to dig for it. Your mileage may vary.
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