Host Nicole Tomlinson meets Lan Ly at an Asian supermarket to explore the atmosphere and great foods that viewers may be missing!

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Nicole Tomlinson: You have seen them everywhere and just about every city in America has at least one –-but did you go ever go inside and then still how do you really even know what you are buying? What I am talking about Agent Supermarket. Once you go inside it’s a completely different atmosphere, different site, sounds and aromas. Let us check it out. This is Lan and she is going to be showing us around today. Lan, can you show us something that we might not typically find at our regular grocery store? Lan Ly: First item, Lemon Grass its is a spice and we can chop up and use it in cooking or sometimes if we are not feeling well we can blow this in a pot of water we can just kind of use it like as a tonic. This is a Gobo Root and yes, known in all of the Japan we have it here now and usually we can make soup with it make a snack with this and it is great, as a blood purifier and for digestion. Nicole Tomlinson: It purifies the blood so it’s good for detoxing getting all those impurities out of your system. Lan Ly: Yes now this is Bitter Melon, this we can use in soups or stir fry as well and this is great for lowering blood sugar as well. Nicole Tomlinson: Okay this is like cucumber, how does it tastes? Lan Ly: It is a bit bitter there is a trick when you are making soup you can add Soya Bean and that will lessen the bitterness and also give you the benefits. And this is a white yam, you can make soups or make them as a shake and lot of women uses this during 3rd trimester. Nicole Tomlinson: Of pregnancy? Lan Ly: Yes. Nicole Tomlinson: Okay and what does it do for them? Lan Ly: It helps to produce mucous and to speed up and ease delivery. Nicole Tomlinson: Also women who are preparing to give births should definitely add this to their diets and this will make it kind of little easier. Oh that is great. Supermarket Customer: I shop in Asian super market because I get a better choice of vegetables and Asian products at a better price than the regular super market. I buy lots of dumplings because I could put those in freezer and make those really fast and lots of vegetables, pea shoots, Chinese broccoli, snow peas, bean sprouts I can buy them in bulk and a lot fresher than I can at the supermarket I normally go to. Nicole Tomlinson: If you are vegetarian then the Asian market is your best friend. Lan what can we eat that is not toe full all the time? Lan Ly: This right here is a Vege. King Prawn and this is Black Peppered Smoky meat. Nicole Tomlinson: What kind of meat does it taste like, like it is more chicken is it more? Lay Ly: More like fish. Nicole Tomlinson: More like fish. Okay and how do you prepare this? Lan Ly: This we can put in and stir fry as well. Nicole Tomlinson: Just grab some veggies toss it all in a pan and there you go. Lan Ly: Yeah. There you go. Nicole Tomlinson: Easy enough. Lan Ly: And this right here is a veggie hot pot, we can hot pot with this, you can just make a pot inside of your -- this with some sauce and veggies you are ready go. Nicole Tomlinson: Okay great, so that’s fast easy meal to make for the family and all these pretty inexpensive or do we are thinking about spending here. Lay Ly: Yes they are they range from about 299 to probably about 499 here. Nicole Tomlinson: Really 299 for this will feed probably two people and 499 will feed your whole family that’s good. Now we are in an ile that is full of bunch of different herbs. Can you tell me a little bit about some special ones? Lan Ly: Yes this one here is a mix up herbal item this we can make into a soup as well and usually the best way is with, we have a black chicken that we can cook as well with this just slow cook over night and that draws all the nutrients out from this and a lot of women who after giving birth use this just to replenish their energy in the nutrients and this is a Wolfberry or Goji Berry. Nicole Tomlinson: A Wolfberry? Lan Ly: Yes and this as well slow cook and drink other nutrients that come out and this is very good for your eyesight. This is dried honeysuckles. Some times when we are needin