I avoided policemen when I went to copYesterday I got a wild hair up my ass and went traipsing all over hell's half-acre looking for galangal and kaffir lime leaves to make Cambodian Catfish Soup. In the borough of Queens, the census equivalent of the "It's A Small World" ride, you'd think that this shit should be growing on the street corners, no? Nope. Posted by Dana at 10:56 AM
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Shit from an Old NotebookYou've got to be kidding; I can find all of those ingredients here in Elk Grove a suburb of Sacramento! You live in a ethnic mecca and you can't find those items...girl you need to move to CA.
Posted by: Michele at October 18, 2004 11:47 AMi love jicama. there. i said it.
Posted by: ;o at October 18, 2004 11:57 AMjicama? galonga? bigoted lime leaves?
come on. you're making this up.
Bangkok Center Grocery, on tiny Mosco Street in Manhattan's Chinatown, is really good for this sort of thing. It's not huge, but it still manages to include lots of things that can be hard to find. Good luck with that soup . . . .
Posted by: John Rambow at October 18, 2004 01:32 PMJohn, if I'd had my druthers, I'd have gone down there, but I was feeling very outer-boroughsy yesterday.
I should just go down there right now. Fuck work.
Posted by: dana at October 18, 2004 02:31 PMChowhound is good for sources for all this stuff.
But it's fun to poke around Flushing, too.
Posted by: Vidiot at October 18, 2004 03:20 PMI also once spent an evening and the following afternoon looking for jicama while my boyfriend simultaneously looked for it in another borough and neither one of us had any luck. I'm glad it wasn't just us.
Posted by: Chris at October 19, 2004 02:38 PMKaffir lime leaves are, I think, out of season. I think you can get them frozen though.
Posted by: max at October 20, 2004 03:54 PM