Dan Abel wrote:
> In article >,
> blake murphy > wrote:
>
>
>>On Thu, 07 May 2009 09:49:00 -0700, Dan Abel wrote:
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>>>Hot oil (a pale red liquid with no solids in it) is incredibly cheap and
>>>can be found at any Chinese grocery. Put it in your food a drop at a
>>>time. If you find it too hot, find someone to give it to or toss it.
>>>Whole dried chiles are a little better, but it takes experience to use
>>>them. Once I get a dish hot enough for me, it's too hot for my wife.
>>>It's just easier for me to add hot oil at the table.
>>
>>hot oil (and sesame oil) have crept into regular grocery stores in the d.c.
>>area, or at least those with an 'asian food' section. probably not as
>>cheap, though.
>
>
> I stopped by the local supermarket yesterday and looked. They had three
> hot oils, two of them sesame oil. The bottles were roughly the same
> size and price, all over US$4.00 for a few ounces. They did have lots
> of kinds of chili paste.
>
> Our nearest Chinese grocery is beyond walking distance, and it's very
> small.
>

Here's some pics of the Asian shopping area, "Chinatown" near where i
live. With in easy walking distance, strolled through to day and got 8
small artichokes for a dollar

The building in the first picture has been "gentrified" since the photo
was taken. "Preserved" and "restored" and so still there even if its
former 'low rent' tenants are not. The second floor used to be very
inexpensive apartments

http://pics4.city-data.com/cpicv/vfiles21496.jpg
http://imgs.sfgate.com/c/pictures/20...0499901561.jpg
http://johnsonleung.files.wordpress....8/img_4173.jpg
http://www.pandagator.info/images/Sa...-chinatown.jpg
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JL