Asian Ingredients

Asian Celery

Small, leafy, and aromatic, Fragrant, this ancient Asian vegetable-herb has hollow, thin crispy stems and delicate wispy leaves. Rarely eaten raw, its flavour is pungent and slightly peppery.

Asian Green Mango

Asian Green Mango

Ataulfo Mango

Smaller in size and less fibrous than a traditional mango, the skin of the Ataulfo Mango is tough and the flesh is soft, sweet and juicy.

Baby Bok Choy Shoots

Baby Bok Choy Shoots are the young, petite and tender counterpart to mature bok choy. Dark green leaves atop white stems.

Baby Mangoes

Baby Mangoes

Baby Gai Lan Tips

The young leaves and stalks from Gai Lan (Chinese Broccoli). Shorter, crisper and more tender than regular Gai Lan. 

Bitter Melon

The Bitter melon is long and slender, similar to the shape of a standard cucumber with a rough, warty edible skin. 

Bok Choy

Bok Choy is a plant in the mustard family, having a loose head of dark green leaves with thick white stems.

Breadfruit

A large football-sized fruit. It has prickly, yellow-green skin and a round to oblong shape. Cooked Breadfruit has a mild potato-like flavour, and as its name implies, the scent is reminiscent of freshly baked bread. 

Burdock Roots

Burdock Root has a chewy and crunchy consistency with a mild, sweet, and earthy taste similar to Artichoke, but the root may also have a slightly astringent or pungent flavour.

Chayote Squash

Unique pear-like shape. Pale lime green colouring and the deep linear indentations that run vertically along the fruit's thin skin.

Chinese Chives

Flat strap-like stems versus hollow thin spherical stems and their flavour is richer and more intense, much like their aroma.

Chinese Long Beans

Known for their extraordinary length, these beans can grow up to thirty inches in length.

Chinese Water Spinach

Water spinach has thin, hollow stems with long, flat, arrowhead-shaped leaves. Its young shoots and leaves are preferred to mature leaves as they are texturally more tender and sweeter in taste.

Chow Mein Noodles

Chow Mein Noodles are sold by the case (12 packages).

Culantro

An oddly pungent herb with long, glossy green, serrated leaves. The smell aside, it has a flavour similar to that of cilantro, only more intense.

Daikon

Cylindrical with a white skin similar to that of a carrot or turnip. flavour is mild and tangy with a crisp and juicy texture.

Dragon Fruit (Pitahayas)

Vibrant fuscia skin conceals creamy white flesh dotted with small black seeds. Mild flavour and juicy.

Dumpling Wrappers

Dumpling Wrappers

Durian

Durian fruit is notorious for its distinguishable, malodorous aroma, which has been compared to that of Limburger cheese, rotting onions, and even gasoline. 

Fermented Black Beans

Fermented Black Beans

Fresh Water Chestnuts

Water Chestnuts are the small, flattened, round corms or bulbs of a reed-like plant. They offer a sweet, nutty flavour with a slight tartness.

Yuzu Fruit (Fresh)

Yuzu is highly aromatic, and the rind is rich in essential oils that are released when the fruit’s surface is scratched or cut. The juice and zest have a unique, acidic blend of sour, sweet, and floral flavours mixed with notes of lime, grapefruit, mandarin.

Fried Garlic

Fried Garlic

Fried Onions/Shallots

Fried Onions/Shallots

Frozen Banana Leaves

Large, flat green leaf.

Gai Lan - Chinese Broccoli

Gai Lan (Chinese Broccoli) smooth, edible stem topped with a small cluster of buds and tender leaves

Galamansi Limes

Galamansi Limes also known as Calamondin, Philippine Lime, or Philippine Lemon.

Galangala

Special Order. Min. 48 hours notice.

Garlic Chives

Small, compact flower bud atop a long, flat green stem.

Ginseng

Its skin is coarse, knobby, cream coloured, earth-stained and scarred, the scars indicating the age of the root. It often has various thin spindly branching and fibrous extensions evolving from its base.

Green Mangoes

Green Mangoes have green skin and a crisp sour taste as they are not fully ripe.

Green Oriental Radish

Thick skin covers a green to creamy white flesh which offers a crisp texture and a radish flavour that can vary from mild to hot depending upon growing conditions and maturity.

Green Papayas

It is semi-firm and succulent, easily pierced when ripe. The flesh's flavour is lean and subtly sweet. Its seeds are tart and peppery.

Hearts of Palm

Tasting somewhat like an Artichoke, it has the appearance similar to that of White Asparagus. About four inches in length, individual hearts may be as thin as a pencil or measure nearly one to one-and-one-half inches in diameter.

Jackfruit

The jackfruit is a multiple fruit composed of hundreds to thousands of individual flowers, and the fleshy petals of the unripe fruit are eaten.

Jamaican Pumpkin

Its exterior skin is hardened, often lined with large vertical ridges and when mature, its rind can be mottled green to yellow-orange and is often striped or splotched with varying shades of green. Mild, sweet, and nutty flavor similar to butternut or acorn squash.

Key Limes

The segmented, seed-bearing flesh contains a sweet-tart juice, a trademark that sets it apart from common limes.

Korean Radish

White radish with a firm crunchy texture. 

Lemongrass

Essential in many Asian cuisines, especially Thai dishes, giving them a subtle citrus flavour.

Licorice Root

The long, cylindrical roots are brown, grooved, and rough with a wrinkled, woody appearance. When the outer layers are removed, it exposes a fibrous, yellow flesh, which is what gives the root its famous flavour. 

Longans

Thin rough-to-prickly brown easy to remove shell. Inside is a large smooth jet-black seed with a white ovoid characteristic mark. Having a flesh reminiscent of a peeled grape, the flavour is wonderfully sweet and often described as a mysterious tasting blend of musk, spruce and gardenia.

Lotus Roots

Dense, crunchy and starchy texture with a faintly nutty and sweet flavour, similar to that of a water chestnut. Horizontal cut reveals lacey texture.

Lychee Nuts

Lychees are oval-round and petite, roughly the size of a walnut, and their leathery skin is covered with tiny spikes. The firm yet gelatinous pulp is chewy and juicy with a sweet, fruity flavour, like a cross of strawberry and watermelon with a touch of pineapple-like acidity.

Mangosteen

Thick, smooth, leathery, burgundy-colored shell with about four to eight flat and woody lobes arranged in a rosette at the apex. Mangosteens offer a sweet-tart tropical flavour with notes of lychee, peach, strawberry, pineapple, and caramel or butter.

Mustard Greens

Mustard Greens have a succulent yet crunchy texture and a robust flavour reminiscent of pepper and horseradish.

Oriental Yams - Purple Flesh

Used in both savory and sweet dishes, Japanese sweet potato has a distinctive purple-ish skin and flesh with a sweet and rich flavour.

Oriental Yams - White Flesh

Oblong in shape with a thin, rusted red coloured skin, and a densely textured cream coloured flesh.

Rambutan

Rambutans are aromatic and have a sweet, fruity flavour with mild acidity, containing subtle notes of strawberries and grapes.

Rice Flour, Glutinous Rice Flour

Rice Flour, Glutinous Rice Flour

Shanghai Bok Choy

Shanghai bok choy is the young, petite and tender counterpart to mature Bok choy. Leaves and stems are uniformly pale green.

Snow Pea Leaves

Special Order. Min. 48 hours notice.

Sour Sop

Aroma similar to pineapple, the flavour of the fruit has been described as a combination of strawberries and apple with sour citrus flavour notes, contrasting with an underlying thick creamy texture reminiscent of banana.

Sugar Cane

Stout, jointed, fibrous stalks that are rich in sucrose, which accumulates in the stalk internodes.

Szechuan Peppercorns

Szechuan Peppercorns

Tamarillos

Petite and teardrop shaped with a glossy smooth cranberry hued skin and succulent flesh containing small soft edible seeds.

Tamarind Paste

Tamarind Paste

Tapioca Flour

Tapioca Flour

Taro Roots

The flesh of the Taro root has a texture similar to a water chestnut and its flavour is mild and slightly nutty when cooked.

Tempeh

Special Order. Min. 48 hours notice.

Turmeric

Its skin's colour is a combination of pale earth and orange. The flesh is a vibrant carrot orange colour and its flavour is warm and peppery with very distinct bitter undertones. It is most often boiled and then dried.

Wonton Wrappers Wonton Wrappers