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<title>Grocery Map</title>
<description>I have always enjoyed food shopping and eating really good food. I typically spend Saturday shuttling from one store to another. This is a map of food shops I visit regularly and other nearby places I've been to. </description>
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        Mother's Market & Kitchen
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        A health-conscious grocery store with a large selection of vitamins. Also offers kitchen for dining. (Jessica Peralta)<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/1026839">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2007-03-05 21:38:46.319586+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Henry's Marketplace</title>
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        <ul><li>Vegetarian Friendly</li><li>Health Food Store</li><li><a href='http://happycow.net/reviews.php?id=4829'>Reviews</a></ul><br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/5153">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2005-12-23 14:37:44.99274+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Han's Market</title>
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        A small "mom and pop" Korean market with lots of Asian seasonings, cured meats, home-made sushi and sweets.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/79944">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-05-08 00:19:41.454995+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>El Metate Market</title>
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        <![CDATA[
        El Metate Market is a super market specializing in Mexican goods. They have an excellent deli. <br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/89242">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-06-04 14:48:55.623132+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Whole Foods Market</title>
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        <ul><li>Vegetarian Friendly</li><li>Health Food Store</li><li><a href='http://happycow.net/reviews.php?id=1720'>Reviews</a></ul><br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/5516">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2005-12-23 14:44:07.162275+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Trader Joe's</title>
<description>
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        fair trade<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/29778">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-03-04 16:42:59.629805+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Trader Joe's</title>
<description>
        <![CDATA[
        fair trade<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/29779">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-01-04 22:54:32.679951+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Irvine Farmer's Market</title>
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        Farmer's market I go to is at the University Center on the corner of Bridge and Campus (across from UCI). Here you can get vegetables, fruit, mushrooms, fresh herbs, meat, fish, dairy, eggs, honey and plants from farmers in the region of Orange County. Great fun if it's not too crowded.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/36526">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-03-04 00:53:15.183205+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>El Toro Gourmet Meats</title>
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        This is a great meat shop and I really enjoy their own marinated carne asada, top sirloin steaks, and lobster tails. They also have other things such as pickled gherkins, jam, horseradish, fresh homemade salsa and avacodo dip etc. I think most of their meat is from local farmers and they also have freezer meat packages (the gourmet pack is $750) or you can pick your own.

Located at 23522 El Toro Road, Lake Forest (look for the "Big Red Barn").<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/36527">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-03-05 23:15:46.850433+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Gelson's</title>
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        Gelson's store is all about cleanliness, convenience, and service. You'll find unusual ingredients, special spices, and gourmet foods from the service deli like spiral ham and rib roast. The bakery offers an array of pastries and cakes that you can enjoy with coffee and sit by a cozy fireplace if you just want to relax.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/37849">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-03-05 23:17:14.305204+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Mitsuwa Marketplace</title>
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        Shopping at Mitsuwa has a slightly "Lost in Translation" feel. Most of the staff and shoppers are Japanese. There are vivid, anime-style banners hanging above the aisles, which are stocked with colorfully packaged candies, snack foods and drinks. Small booth-like shops and restaurants line the inside perimeter of the Mitsuwa Marketplace.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/37850">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-05-08 00:18:48.069252+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Ebisu Market</title>
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        A small Asian market I used to go to when I lived in the area.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/37852">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-03-04 17:56:01.398281+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Marukai Japanese Market</title>
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<title>Super Irvine Market</title>
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        Super Irvine Market has a similar inventory as Wholesome Choice, but often has deals on items not at Wholesome Choice. There isn't a food court, but its located next to Darband (Iranian restaurant), Caspian (Iranian restaurant), India Cook House (Indian restaurant), Assal bakery (Iranian bakery), a Chinese bakery and a Korean soft tofu restaurant.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/37926">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-05-08 00:47:57.173092+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>99 Ranch Market</title>
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        One of the largest Asian supermarket chain in the United States.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/37927">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-03-05 23:48:13.470865+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Fresh Produce Market</title>
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        A cute market on Prospect Street.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/39535">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-03-09 23:13:54.252836+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>HK Market</title>
<description>
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        The HK market has a bakery, food court serving Korean, Japanese and Chinese cuisine, and even a made-to-order sushi counter. But my favorite thing about the store is the packaged banchan (Korean side dishes) and tubs of pre-marinated meats, ready for grilling. The bulgogi, marinated sliced rib-eye at 2.99/lb is a bargain; tender, marinated galbi (beef short ribs) for $3.49/lb is also quite reasonable. Their wide selection of banchan include pickled Japanese cucumbers, seasoned spinach, green seaweed tossed with sesame oil, creamy potato salad, and marinated bean sprouts. <br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/59148">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-10 13:24:47.967609+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Claro's Italian Market</title>
<description>
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        A non-descript market tucked in the back of a shopping plaza. They carry imported Italian goods such as fresh mozzarella, olives packed in tubs, sausages tied in twine, Prosciutto Di Parma, cannolis and gelato.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/37533">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-03-02 00:22:02.391051+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Bristol Farms</title>
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<title>Tanaka Farms</title>
<description>
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        Organically home grown strawberries, tomatoes, white corn, pumpkins and christmas trees.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/96680">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-06-29 21:58:47.668992+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Growers Direct</title>
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        Growers Direct is located by the Triangle Square shopping center (oxymoron), in a messy tangle of streets (known as the "Bermuda Triangle") where the 55 freeway turns into Newport. It's small market mostly known by locals that sells fresh and seasonal produce at "cheap" prices that you'd normally find at Asian or Mexican grocery stores.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/37854">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-03-05 23:19:49.501168+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Wholesome Choice Market</title>
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        Wholesome Choice offers American brands, plus an impressive line of Asian, Mediterranean, Russian, Eastern European, and even have South African foods. They have the natural and organic foods you've come to expect, along with delicious market-fresh produce that arrives daily. There's a hearthstone bakery, located at the front of the store, where you can see speciality breads baked throughout the day. Their international food court caters to all cultures and all the locals can be typically seen eating in the dining area.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/36534">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-03-05 23:23:36.035685+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>La Carreta Supermarket</title>
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        La Carreta supermarket is located the primarily Hispanic El Modena neighborhood of Orange. The aisles are filled with Boing! Juice concentrates, Bimbo snacks, Goya spices and a meat counter with longanisa, or sausage, and marinated chicken.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/1069354">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2007-03-13 14:11:58.259437+00:00</dc:date>
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        Laxmi Sweets & Spices
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        Like most Indian markets, this one assaults your sense of smell before any other sense. The sleepy market is pungent with the aroma of curry, turmeric, fenugreek and cardamom, all draping around you like six yards of a sari.

Laxmi has been around for 16 years and exists as a small temple of cluttered, unmanicured hominess stocked with English teas, sacks of jasmine rice, frozen meals of curry and a thriving selection of Indian movies and CDs.

Pass all this by and walk to the back where a short buffet is ready every day around 11 a.m. The lamb curry is tender, vegetable meatballs sit in a creamy yellow gravy, rolled chickpea crackers are wonderful snacks. Maybe the lentil soup is too watery, but the naan, charred in spots, is never insipid.

There are battered and fried potatoes that are perfectly creamy inside. And the pakoras, lentil fritters, are smooth and spicy.

All this requires a sweet ending. The rice pudding is milky and flavored with cinnamon and cardamom and fat raisins. The gulab jamun are deep-fried dumplings tasting vaguely of sweetened condensed milk soaking in simple syrup. You can also fill up on plain lassi or mango lassi, both are thick, creamy slushies made from yogurt.

There's also a vast menu of Indian specialties, including parathas (stuffed pan-roasted wheat breads), outstanding biryanis (a pile of saffron-yellow rice flecked with spices and mixed with tender lamb or chicken), and vegetarian dishes such as baingan bharta (lucious eggplant simmered with onions and cinnamon) and aloo-poori (spicy potatoes served with deep-fried whole wheat bread).

You'll be shocked by the length of dosas - they'll seem like baseball bats. The large, diaphanous crepe is rolled around a filling of spicy potato and served with two sauces, one is made of coconut, the other tart and bright red from tomato. On the same plate is a dark pickle that's as assaulting as anything you've evertasted.

The tika masala is one of a few dishes where spices take a back seat to a sweet, creamy gravy. It's excellent with either lamb or chicken.

Someone in the kitchen here is making this soul food with imprecision, and yet, it'll sink permanently into your psyche.

-ocregister<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/98732">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-07-10 16:56:22.32912+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Penzeys Spices</title>
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        Stepping into Penzeys Spice store makes you feel like you are in a far away land. The store aroma takes you to fields growing cinnamon or basil and to the many far away lands where Penzeys gathers its fresh spices.

They offers over 250 fresh spices, blends and flavors that you can buy in different quantities, from very small amounts such as two oz. in a miniature bottle to bags holding 8 oz. or more. Every spice can be "smelled" with their sample jars. 

Penzeys offerings are also available in the store online, by phone or via email order. 
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<dc:date>2007-03-12 15:58:38.98827+00:00</dc:date>
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