Buy RV Kitchen Items From Asian Supermarkets

Above, inside a Japanese market in the Little Tokyo section of Los Angeles. Photo by Armadn Vaquer.

Over the years, I've been to many Asian (mainly Japanese) supermarkets and have bought a few things for the kitchen. But the following is something I've never thought of before, but it does make a lot of good sense.

Do It Yourself RV has an article on buying RV and camping items from Asian supermarkets.

They begin with:

Nearly every city has an Asian supermarket that features a wide range of foods, dried goods, drinks, and delicious sweets. Many of these stores also have a handy housewares section where you can find items meant to be used in smaller kitchens or in homes with less cabinet space. 

Shops like Japanese-based Daiso or Korean-based H Mart are available in larger cities, but even smaller towns have an Asian grocery or home store where you find some of these smaller-sized and handy items for your RV.

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Blog Post Pick-ups

The good folks at The Japan Daily picked up three blog posts from yesterday to share with their readers.

They are:

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Gaijinpot: "Beginner's Guide To Supermarket Shopping In Japan"

Above, a Tokyo supermarket. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Most foreign tourists to Japan will go out to a restaurant or a fast food eatery instead of cooking their own meals. Or, if they stay at a ryokan, will take their home-cooked meals there. There are some who plan on an extended stay and will be lodged in an extended stay hotel (here's an example) or apartment with kitchenette facilities. If you plan on staying at a place with kitchenette facilities, then this article is for you.

Those who plan to cook their own meals while in Japan will have to shop at a Japanese supermarket.

Gaijinpot.com has an article on the "Beginner's Guide To Supermarket Shopping In Japan."

They wrote (in part):

Let’s start by focusing on the supermarket themselves. In many ways Japanese supermarkets are exactly the same as those in any other country, but they also differ in one or two ways too. Firstly, most supermarkets in Japan are actually better described as grocery stores, in that they exclusively sell food. Don’t go in expecting to buy bubble bath, a razor and a few cheap t-shirts because most supermarkets just won’t stock these kinds of items.

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