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February 8, 2010. It's almost Valentines Day, and this year Chinese New Year is on February 14th also. We have something special in store.
Please see our new recipes, offers, and street vendor video below. |
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Feature Ingredient: Chinese-style Longlife Noodles
In Thailand these are popular as the noodles for Mee Sua, a Chinese-style vegetarian stir-fry. We have fresh new stock available right now, just in time for Chinese New Year. Order in the kit above or separately.
These thin yellow noodles (about the same size as angel hair pasta) are also served throughout Thailand in soups and stir-fry. They absorb flavors well and we notice that kids particularly love them. See our recipe for Thai-style Noodles Baked in Clay Pot, "Bamee Gai Op Mor Din".
Ingredients: Wheat flour, salt, water. No additives. Product of Thailand. |
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$2.95 |
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RECIPE CONTEST:
Win a Pansonic Rice Cooker. Just Use Kaffir Lime Leaf Powder
Anyone familiar with Thai cooking knows that kaffir lime is an essential ingredient in so many recipes. We've offered fresh kaffir lime leaves for years, and now for the first time we can offer kaffir lime leaf powder. This is fresh harvest, just picked and dried a few weeks ago. The powder retains all of the aroma and flavor of the fresh leaves.
We discovered that kaffir lime leaf powder adds wonderful flavor to all sorts of non-Thai recipes, such as bread, pasta, meatballs, it's even a very popular way of flavoring vodka.
Order a package of this powder now, develop a recipe using it, then send us the recipe via email (whatever it is, however big or small). Next month we'll draw one name at random and send that person a free Panasonic rice cooker.
We'd love to know what recipes you can develop using kaffir lime leaf powder. Our 1 oz package is a large amount (about 4 heaping tablespoons). Just a dash of this goes a long way. Included in our Valentines Kit above, or order separately. Product of USA.
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$5.89 1 oz Kaffir Lime Leaf Powder |
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Oprah Includes ImportFood.com In Her Top 8 Favorite Food Sites
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We were so glad to see that Oprah Winfrey's "O Magazine" did a feature about online grocery companies in their February 2010 issue. They included a paragraph about ImportFood.com, mentioned our street vendor videos, and included us among 8 Favorite Websites. Thanks Oprah!
Click the picture to read the details.
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NEW CROP 2010 Jasmine Rice Just Arrived
Every January we await the first arrival of new crop jasmine rice, and we're not alone--many connoisseurs treat the first arrival like a new beaujolais. New crop jasmine rice isn't aged at all, it's polished and promptly shipped. Unlike rice that's been in storage for a few months, new crop rice is softer, more tender, has better fragrance. It's the "tasters choice" and only keeps this distinctive new crop characteristic for a short 4-6 weeks.
When it comes to making fried rice, aged rice is better than new crop. In 2-3 months it won't make any difference, but there is something unique about January new crop jasmine rice that you might enjoy
New crop (especially in January) is always $1-$2 higher than usual, so this is a bit more expensive than what we've been charging for jasmine rice. Product of Thailand.
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$12.99 10 lb bag New Crop 2010 |
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New Stock: Sriracha Sauce from Shark
Just two weeks ago we received a new shipment of fresh pack Shark brand sriracha from Thailand. It's as fresh as can be, and tastes wonderful. We now have medium flavor, in addition to "Strong" which is what we've offered for years.
Sriracha was invented in Thailand, and Shark is the premier manufacturer. Shark brand uses all natural ingredients, packed in a nice glass bottle. Shark is far superior to the plastic bottle stuff from LA which includes preservatives and has an unnatural heavy pepper taste.
Medium flavor has the taste of Thai chiles but low heat. Strong offers bold chile heat, somewhat like tabasco, but tangy and a bit sweet too. Use plenty of it. The large glass bottle is a generous amount. All Natural. Ingredients: chile, water, sugar, garlic, salt, vinegar. Product of Thailand. |
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$3.29, Strong flavor, 7 oz glass bottle |
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$3.29, Medium flavor, 7 oz glass bottle |
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New Stock: Hot Basil and Pad Thai Sauce from Maxchup
Fresh arrival from Maxchup, direct from Thailand. Maxchup operates in a brand new factory, a high quality division of the company that manufactures premium Healthy Boy soy sauce.
Hot Basil has a distinctive peppery Thai basil flavor but it's not "spicy hot". It's our best-selling sauce from Maxchup. The sauce now comes with a small card describing ways to cook with it. More info here.
Pad Thai Sauce is almost our favorite (chile garlic is our Maxchup top pick). Pad Thai sauce is so tasty and versatile it can be used for anything including spaghetti noodles. More info here.
These are packed in glass bottles, the best (and increasingly less common) way to pack cooking sauces. Very high quality overall. |
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$3.89 Hot Basil, 10 oz |
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$3.49 Pad Thai, 10 oz |
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1 can $2.59 |
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6 cans $11.50 |
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Ready-made Thai Red Curry, Aroy-D
We introduced this two weeks ago, and customers have told us how much they like it. If you're planning to order with us, add some of this. We know you'll like the convenience, and taste is really good.
We usually don't recommend the premade Thai curry found so often in stores like Trader Joes, because a good Thai curry should start with a curry paste, then add coconut milk, fish sauce, and kaffir lime leaves as it's being prepared.
This premade Thai curry from Aroy-D is quite good if you don't have a lot of time. It's the best we've tasted, from dependable Aroy-D (makers of Thailand's best coconut milk).
All you do is heat it over a stovetop, and add chicken (or your meat of choice), cook and serve with jasmine rice. Very tasty and quick. Spicy too, not overwhelming, but this has good chile heat.
Ingredients: coconut milk, water, pumpkin, chile oil, red curry paste (dried red chile, garlic, lemongrass, shallot, salt, galangal, kaffir lime peel, corriander seed, cumin powder), basil leaves, sugar, red chile, salt, kaffir lime leaves. Product of Thailand. |
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| Special Street Vendor Features--Cracked Crab with Thai Curry Powder. "Bu Pad Pong Kari", and Bangkok Street Scenes. Here we take you to the streets of Thailand to see a sidewalk chefs prepare bu pad pong kari. There's no better way to learn how to cook authentic Thai food than our street vendor videos. Also, please enjoy our new music video featuring creative street vendors in Bangkok. |
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