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[Renee D.]

My family will be moving to Ajijic in September, and I'm hoping to continue cooking Thai food at home. Do any stores in the area sell Thai ingredients...jasmine rice, fish sauce, coconut milk, etc?

Cheers,
Renee

[bmh]

yes to the above do not know about the etc.

[bostonfrog2012]

Yes, Newbie. I don't know about getting those things in Ajijic, but you can get all of them, including all the Thai curries, Jasmine rice, fish sauce and coconut milk at a store called TOYO FOODS here in Guadalajara. They have 2 or 3 branches in the city and a Japanese-style restaurant as well. Walmart, as well, sells the hot and sweet Vietnamese Siracha sauce as well as a place called Farmacia Guadalajara, the biggest pharmacy chain in the country.
If you have membership at Costco, you can get large bags of 10 kgs. of Thai Jasmine riice!.

[traderspoc]

bought thai green curry at walmart several months ago.

lemon grass plants also sold at farmers market.
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we also buy in quadalajara at toyo foods


also just came back tonight from a great private 5 course polynesian style dinner at manix, where the chef prepared a delicious thai tum yum soup that that was wonderful.

[Beeland]

We often cook Thai food at home and get most of the ingredients we need locally at Lakeside - primarily Super Lake but also some ingredients at Walmart. We grow our own lemon grass and have yet to find such essential ingredients as kaffir lime leaves and galengal but kaffir limes and galengal can both be grown in the Lakeside climate. We find that ginger root is an acceptable substitute for galengal root although we have yet to find a good substitute for kaffir limes leaves so we bring some dried kaffir lime leaves back with us after our periodic vists to family in Paris.

The above suggestion of Toyo in Guadalajara is worth exploring for some Asian style ingredients. For authentic Korean ingredients - another style of cooking we enjoy - we know of a great Korean grocer in Guadalajara if anyone is interested.

[ChrisB]

http://www.fromthefa...-trees
Texas nursery. These trees are true dwarfs, suited for patio pot culture. They sell keffir lime trees. If you are driving down you can pick it up on the way. Just shake the dirt off and wrap the bare roots well in wet newspaper, put it in a bag. bare root is allowed at the border. They also sell Meyer lemon and blood oranges. I have a 5 year old Meyer that bears well and lives in a five gallon pot! I brought it down bare root .

[More Liana]

http://www.fromthefa...hefa...-trees
Texas nursery. These trees are true dwarfs, suited for patio pot culture. They sell keffir lime trees. If you are driving down you can pick it up on the way. Just shake the dirt off and wrap the bare roots well in wet newspaper, put it in a bag. bare root is allowed at the border. They also sell Meyer lemon and blood oranges. I have a 5 year old Meyer that bears well and lives in a five gallon pot! I brought it down bare root.

The link you posted takes me to a farmer's market website, no growing plants listed on it. ???

[Renee D.]

Great to know. Thanks, everyone!

[gimpychimp]

We often cook Thai food at home and get most of the ingredients we need locally at Lakeside - primarily Super Lake but also some ingredients at Walmart. We grow our own lemon grass and have yet to find such essential ingredients as kaffir lime leaves and galengal but kaffir limes and galengal can both be grown in the Lakeside climate. We find that ginger root is an acceptable substitute for galengal root although we have yet to find a good substitute for kaffir limes leaves so we bring some dried kaffir lime leaves back with us after our periodic vists to family in Paris.

The above suggestion of Toyo in Guadalajara is worth exploring for some Asian style ingredients. For authentic Korean ingredients - another style of cooking we enjoy - we know of a great Korean grocer in Guadalajara if anyone is interested.

Yes, please post the details for the Korean store. Thank you!

[happyjackson4]

If you live west of town, La Huerta market next door to Pacific Fish has quite an amazing supply of Thai products. Before going across town for anything, be sure to check out La Huerta. For a small store he has an amazing variety of ethic foods and...

[Beeland]

Yes, please post the details for the Korean store. Thank you!

The Korean Market is named Asian Market and is located at Av. Americas #881 near the intersection with Lopez Mateos Norte. You might call their cell phone at 333 817 8796 if you need additional information. There are a couple of Korean restaurants in the area within walking distance that they recommend but we haven´t tried them as we have always been there too early in the morning when we have visited the market. This is a large market with many Korean, Japanese and other Asian food products, rice cookers, etc. They make several varieties of kim chi which I find irresistible