Matthew’s, meet Sea Woo. They are your competition, and they have Everything Asian, including a selection of Polish food. Yes, I know, you weren’t aware that Poland was an Asian country. Well, the checkout baggers would differ with you on that – and really, I wouldn’t argue with them, because they look like they lift small cars in their spare time.
Sea Woo has been on our list of places to go for quite some time, mainly because every time we’d mention having gone to Matthew’s, whoever we were talking to would ask whether we’d been there. We can see why they asked, as Sea Woo seems to have everything: from dried cuttlefish to mock cuttlefish; fresh, frozen, dried, and paste … of durien. If it’s Asian, they have it, and all arranged so you can do things like compare Indian curry paste to Thai curry paste, as all of their curry pastes are in the same cabinet. (Thai won, this trip)
If you go, take a cab, as 1) you’ll be carrying a lot home with you on the bus or on foot, and 2) it’s not exactly in the best area of Glasgow. It’s not bad – we’d walk it during daylight … but we wouldn’t be happy about it, and wouldn’t enjoy carrying the groceries through it, either.
We came home with 5 bags of groceries, and have had a cultural experience as well: note to anyone, Grape Juice with Sac … has peeled grapes in it. In the can. Try not to gag when you encounter them. And Roasted Coconut Drink has chunks of … Roasted Coconut in it.
All of the photos were taking “off the hip”, with my camera hung ’round my neck. I didn’t want to worry the staff, nor get kicked out. It was a close thing, as they kept looking at us – I think they could tell we were taking pictures, but wouldn’t come right out and ask us to stop.
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Mira would be so jealous ! I spotted durian a couple of years ago at Victory (my small independent grocer) and when Mira started her exotic fruit kick she desperately wanted to try one. Never mind the warnings of the smell and all, I have been told to keep a peeled eye and cart one home should I ever see one again.
Hmmm, whole grapes in the can? At least one knows there’s fruit in it!
Sounds like you had fun in that shop! Did you have room for everything when you got home?
Polish and Asian–love it!
Durian smells as bad as its reputation, but it really is quite tasty. Honest! Some people freeze fresh durian- cuts down the smell, but doesn’t steal the taste.
Seriously – it’s ALL about the Sea Woo. the name alone does it for me. Do they have t-shirts?
jackie: I’ve a former coworker who loves the stuff … and his wife truly hates it. He has to go out to eat it, whenever they visit Malaysia, and then stay out for a while, so that he doesn’t smell like it when he gets back.
divatobe: One does NOW!
Holler: We had to have a dinner comprising of many frozen potstickers and whole soybeans, because we really didn’t have the freezer space!
Jes: Yep – and it’s apparently a fairly good part of their business, as we saw quite a few polish people there.
Barry: So – they’d eat it like popsicles or something?
Claudia: If they have t-shirts, would you like one? 😉