[SU Globalists]: An aisle to Asia

At the gate of Asia Food Market on Erie Boulevard in Syracuse, the strong smell of fresh seafood may make you do a double-take. Inside the market, the refrigerators on the right stock Asian vegetables, such as bok choy, that can hardly ever be found in American groceries; dozens of shelves in the front of the store are packed with Asian sauces, snacks and even cooking utensils. Almost everything an Asian family household would use for cooking can be easily found here.

Asia Food Market is, without a doubt, the most convenient store for Syracuse residents searching for foods and snacks from China, Korea and Japan that they might have never tasted before. Because of the market’s existence, the Asian food culture is becoming more pervasive in the Syracuse area.

Read original post here, which is a feature story I wrote for SU Globalists, which got published in its first ever print issue in spring 2019.