The Thousands

This may come as a surprise, but many people have never heard nor experienced the joy of eating edamame. Oh no, not you too! Edamame are salty little soy bean pods and while some people won’t believe that you just suck the beans out and leave the skin – that is how they are eaten (I still don’t have the heart to tell a colleague of mine who proclaimed ‘I hadn’t finished my lunch’ and proceed to chew ferociously on a empty pod that I’d sucked). Edamame and many other foods found at Asian supermarkets around town are the kind of foods you just don’t share – because they are too damn tasty, not to mention mysterious.

Unlock the key to your favourite cook at home Japanese, Chinese and Korean dishes by getting the authentic ingredients and starting from scratch. There are also oodles of noodles, foreign candies, snacks and convenience foods including frozen gyoza! Locate the special ‘gyoza dipping sauce’ and your trusty soy will be so dead to you it might as well have crabs.