Korean Food and Grocery Shopping

Before crazy Christmas shopping hits the streets, we went to our grocery shoppings to NJ yesterday. Why NJ? - because there is one of our all time favorite restaurants and we wanted to go to Japanese and Korean grocery stores.

First stop - Korean Tofu Soup restaurant in Fort Lee. I think I posted this place before and several others about Tofu soup in San Francisco (maybe) and Seattle. By far, this place is the best to have hot Tofu soups. We had Kimchi/Beef in hot and Oyster in medium along with beef ribs as usual. I love their soup and ribs, but I love their cucumber pickles (I am not sure I should call it Kimchi or Namul) - bit sweet and of course spicy with sesame flavor. One more thing special about this place is their freshly cooked rice in the stone bowl. It is so good and they pour Korean tea after serving to the bowls.

Next stop was a Japanese grocery to buy something for Christmas dinner, which I will report tomorrow or later, along with something for New Year.

Final stop was a Korean grocery store - H Mart... It seemed very new and we have not been at this store before, while we have been at other locations. It looked much cleaner than others and everything - produce items, meats and of course Kimchi - is fresh and very reasonably priced. We had a bag of Kimchi, yes a bag...

Look how many shopping bags we carried today... We don't need to go for grocery shopping for a while.

Look what I cooked today - someone's favorite - Kabocha pumpkin Ni-Mo-No - typical Japanese cooking method for pumpkin and other vegetables. It came out REALLY good and we will enjoy this over a few days.