Great recommendations here. We live part of the year in California where Asian stores and supplies are plentiful, but spice merchants like this couple are unique. Do they have any outlets in London? We get there often enough to bring home the goodies.
Very jealous, I miss all the Korean grocery stores I used to frequent in Los Angeles!
You can find everywhere Rempapa is stocked in London here: https://www.rempapa.com/findus, though you can also order online! I can particually recommend picking up some of their pastes at Raya Grocery in Borough Market - not only is Borough Market itself fantastic and such a great resource but it is such a great Asian grocery outlet and where I pick up a lot of my hard to find ingredients too when I'm in the city and too far from Chinatown!
Thanks for the tips. And I have to add that I love articles like this one, because they remind me of the infinite possibilities in Asian cooking. Very liberating for a cook.
Love this feature! Also what a great idea to use fennel with regular sweet basil to approximate Thai basil, which can be hard to find here in Madrid.
And Shu’s spice pastes sound amazing! Do you know if there’s a way to get them outside of the UK?
I know, it is such a clever idea!
And they really are! I don't know - though next time I do an order, after Brexit am I allow to send food like that in the mail...?
Great recommendations here. We live part of the year in California where Asian stores and supplies are plentiful, but spice merchants like this couple are unique. Do they have any outlets in London? We get there often enough to bring home the goodies.
Very jealous, I miss all the Korean grocery stores I used to frequent in Los Angeles!
You can find everywhere Rempapa is stocked in London here: https://www.rempapa.com/findus, though you can also order online! I can particually recommend picking up some of their pastes at Raya Grocery in Borough Market - not only is Borough Market itself fantastic and such a great resource but it is such a great Asian grocery outlet and where I pick up a lot of my hard to find ingredients too when I'm in the city and too far from Chinatown!
Thanks for the tips. And I have to add that I love articles like this one, because they remind me of the infinite possibilities in Asian cooking. Very liberating for a cook.
I know - Asian-style flavours are one of my favourite things to work with when I'm cooking just for myself!