Mugicha update
Sep. 24th, 2003 11:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petronia見付かった :D
The long version: after having looked for the schtuff fruitlessly since Labour Day (when sjcon supply ran out), re-started yoga last week and found the business card of a Saint-Denis St. tea salon tacked up on the yoga studio's bulletin board. Said tea salon being one that I'd visited twice, four years ago, loved and never managed to find again thereafter, because I have a navigation quotient of -150. Called them this afternoon and asked the very nice and helpful lady if they had barley tea. No, they only served it in the summer (which was already a giant leap ahead from "you can't buy it in Montreal"), but there's a Korean grocer's on Sherbrooke just west of Decarie that keeps the schtuff in stock. So I got Go Booya to drive me out. XD It turned out the lady's sense of distance was a bit whacked, since we ended up having to walk fifteen minutes into Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, but it was a really great grocery that stocked all kinds of tea, from mugicha and genmaicha to Korean herbals I'd never heard of and don't know the uses for. <3 Bought several boxes worth, so won't have to trek out there for some time.
Also bought Calpis, which is very good - though one can of it costs as much as 30 packets of Korean mugicha, and each packet makes for 2 litres of tea. >_> Oh well.
The long version: after having looked for the schtuff fruitlessly since Labour Day (when sjcon supply ran out), re-started yoga last week and found the business card of a Saint-Denis St. tea salon tacked up on the yoga studio's bulletin board. Said tea salon being one that I'd visited twice, four years ago, loved and never managed to find again thereafter, because I have a navigation quotient of -150. Called them this afternoon and asked the very nice and helpful lady if they had barley tea. No, they only served it in the summer (which was already a giant leap ahead from "you can't buy it in Montreal"), but there's a Korean grocer's on Sherbrooke just west of Decarie that keeps the schtuff in stock. So I got Go Booya to drive me out. XD It turned out the lady's sense of distance was a bit whacked, since we ended up having to walk fifteen minutes into Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, but it was a really great grocery that stocked all kinds of tea, from mugicha and genmaicha to Korean herbals I'd never heard of and don't know the uses for. <3 Bought several boxes worth, so won't have to trek out there for some time.
Also bought Calpis, which is very good - though one can of it costs as much as 30 packets of Korean mugicha, and each packet makes for 2 litres of tea. >_> Oh well.
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Date: 2003-09-24 09:14 pm (UTC)-mjj
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Date: 2003-09-25 06:54 am (UTC)Mind you I'd probably think it was no big deal if I lived in NDG - there's a lot of Korean everything down there, it turns out. Naught where I live but matzoh ball mix and concord grape wine.
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Date: 2003-09-25 12:08 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2003-09-25 08:34 am (UTC)Glad you found a Korean food stuffs place. Had I known you were interested, woulda taken you to K-town. (The one in Manhattan which is mediocre, but Flushing is pretty far away, so would have been a huge time suck. ^_~)