Japanese Grocery Shopping In Brisbane
When you want to make Japanese food and you don't live in Japan, getting the right ingredients can sometimes become an obstacle. Japanese Ingredients will generally cost more than in Japan, and some ingredients just can't be found in some areas. So to help everyone's Japanese Cooking around the world, I think it would be great if we could put together an information page listing the best places to shop in each city. If you have favorite places to shop for Japanese Ingredients, I would love to hear about it! I'll share the information with everyone in a future post.
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I live in Brisbane, Australia, and if you live nearby, here are the best and cheapest places I like to shop for Japanese Ingredients: (BTW no-one is sponsoring me to share this!)
- Yuen's: I buy most things (especially Sauces, Dashi, cheap Mirin and Sake, Nori, Hakusai and other vegetables) at Yuen's Asian Supermarket (Market Square, Sunnybank and Chinatown Fortitude Valley) which I find cheaper than most other Asian grocery stores anywhere else in Brisbane.
- Fantastic Foods: (Sunny Park, Sunnybank) A few things I like to get at Fantastic Foods in Sunny Park (Next to Aldi Sunnybank) which has $3/300g bunch fresh Enoki mushrooms, $4/500g bag Chikuwa, and a discount card if you ask for it... And the best quality Daikon (giant long white radish) I've seen locally.
- Hanaro Mart Butcher: (Times Square, Sunnybank) Thinly Siced Beef I buy inside the Korean Grocery Store in Town Square (Outside Sunnybank Plaza), $10/kg (This is VERY cheap for Australia!) or $13/kg for even thinner lean and tender shabu-shabu beef. Hanaro Mart is a Korean Grocery store which has a separate Butcher inside. (Sometimes I buy the chinese hot pot style rolled beef (as you see in the photo above) in Fantastic Foods, $4/300g.)
- High Fresh: (Market Square, Sunnybank) If you're after Shungiku (Spring Chrisanthemum leaves) for your Sukiyaki, High Fresh (around the back of Market Square) is your best bet, $1.30 for a huge bunch, but only in Spring. (I sometimes saw it at Yuen's in the Valley, but not anywhere else)
Below are some examples of my favorite Japanese grocery shopping in Brisbane:
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| Beef Tongue and Heart from Woolworths (after I've prepared them) |
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| Hakusai, Bok Choi, Enoki Mushrooms and Atsuage deep-fried Tofu from Fantastic Foods |
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| $13/kg "Shabu-shabu" beef at Hanaro Mart |
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| $10/kg "Bulgogi" beef at Hanaro Mart |
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