Uwajimaya is the best store in the Universe.
It is an Asian grocery and gift store and has EVERY SINGLE FOOD ITEM you never knew existed. Even after you see the food you have no idea what it is because many of the products are not labeled in English.
That's what makes Uwajimaya fun, though. Buy a box of cookies with a picture of a flower on the outside. Find out that they taste like shrimp, instead of a flower. Buy interesting drinks made out of basil seed and strange nuts you've never heard of.
Go into the produce department and get cheap basil to make pesto with! Buy some Lechee fruit and spend 30 minutes figuring out how to eat them.
Go into the fish and meat department and be amazed at the tons of crabs, clams, and other assorted sea life that are in the ice-filled bins.
Uwajimaya is the best store in the world. I mean, what other store has an entire asile devoted to SOY SAUCE?
Now that we don't live in Seattle anymore, when my husband and I do make it on that side of the mountains, we always stock up on goodies at Uwajimaya.
Oh--and even better--the prices are SO CHEAP! Once you go to Uwajimaya, you'll NEVER settle for the paltry "ethnic aisle" at the grocery store again. Such great foods and they're SO inexpensive!!!
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