Skip to main content[JAPANESE] Many locals are atwitter over the idea that this Seattle-based Asian mega-store may open an outpost in downtown Chinatown. That's because smart cooks have been motoring out to Beaverton for a small island nation's worth of sushi-grade fresh fish (cleaned and cut to order), live Dungeness crab ($5.99 a pound) and bivalves, inexpensive produce and tough-to-find Hawaiian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese and other Asian ingredients for years. The big, well-organized, English-friendly supermarket is king when it comes to its selection of seaweed, soy sauces, packaged ramen and rice candies. Add in a deli; Kinokuniya Asian bookstore; Shiseido makeup outlet; pretty cookware section and Hakatamon, its tasty adjacent Japanese restaurant, and you've got a day in the 'burbs.
Grocery list: Kewpie mayo, spicy poke by the pound, radioactive yellow pickled radish, live Kumamoto oysters.
WWeek 2015