Lotte has a new location in Chantilly. What's Lotte? It's an international supermarket, filled with everything you need to recreate that asian dish your mom makes, that you've been craving but you won't drive 3 hours home just for some kare-kare. there's also alot of things in there that will make you say "wtf!" "is that legal" or "i'm gonna die if i eat this."
last friday...i think we were supposed to fast last friday...but anyways, ape had a craving for crabs. so we ventured to lotte cause we heard that blue crabs were mad cheap, like $1.50 a pound. we scooped up some crabs, like 6 for $2.25, and since i can't eat crabs anymore i checked out what else was in the fish section. man they had every damn fish that you could imagine. they butterfly it, de-gut, de-scale, decapitate...however you want it they do it. i didn't want to stink up the apt so i just got a slab of fresh mahi mahi.
we also picked up some sushi and seaweed salad. both were really cheap. con, if you need help and have to ask an employee a question, good luck in getting a response that sounds anything close to engrish. this was probably the first time i asked an asian man a question, which was answered by a spanish speaking employee, that i could understand.
anyways here's some food.
seaweed salad. spicy tuna. i pan seared the mahi mahi. wasted down with Kirin Ichiban Beer.
ape's steamed crabs.
Also, i finally made french toast a couple weekends ago too. delish!
3 comments:
i love Lotte.. its a pretty amazing place, and i can't wait until they fill up the food area with more vendors.
Yea Paolo. I hope they do that soon. The chicken wings, soup, sushi, and bulgogi at the other Lotte are off the hook.
asian grocery stores are the BOMB...esp the candy section ;o)
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