Assi Plaza, Flushing, Queens

Assi Plaza, the largest Korean supermarket in Queens, New York. Most oriental stores does not carry the full line of Korean ingredients. If you can find the sweet potato noodles for japchae in your oriental store, most likely the product was made in China. If you want to cook authentic Korean food, you need the authentic ingredients; then you have to go to a Korean store for your ingredients , particularly the spices and vegetables. We have a few Korean stores in Queens, NY.  But this Korean supermarket, has all Korean foodstuff. some of which only can be found in Korea.

these rice cookers are made in Korea; but they also sell Japanese brand of  rice cookers too.

marinades for your Korean barbeque, whether it be bulgoki, or kalbi or pork belly

popular marinade for kalbi (just in case you don't know the secret to that authentic Korean pork ribs  bbq)

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Korean snacks are mostly not too sweet compared to the Filipino kakanin.  Marami kasing asukal sa Pilipinas.

My favorite Korean rice cake is the one in front.  It is mochi cake covered with roasted soybean flour.

kimchi samples for tasting - they have the napa cabbage kimchi, the perilla leaves kimchi and the cubed radish kimchi

dried red beans for making red bean paste used for making mochi or gyungdan, the Korean version of the japanese ohagi. 

huge, really huge napa cabbage and radish for making kimchi. Kimchi is eaten in Korea for breakfast, lunch and dinner.  Every family has their own recipe for their kimchi.

frozen Korean dinner and snack foods

Some Korean ingredients which I bought from Korean grocery.  Unfortunately, I got these from  H Mart, Korean grocery in Woodside, as I did not know I will be going to Assi Plaza the next day.

Essential ingredients to most Korean dishes, the gochujang or red pepper paste, doenjang or soybean paste similar to japanese miso and the sesame oil

I am planning to make some pajeon or Korean pancake, gyundun or  korean rice balls , and spicy stir fried  anchovy

Kinako in Japan, konggaru in Korean or roasted soybean powder can be used for ohagi, japanese rice  ball snack made from pounded cooked sweet rice with red bean paste in the middle.  The Korean version of the ohagi is called  gyundan,  made from mochi flour with red bean paste in the middle.   This ingredient is also used to make the Korean rice cake called injeolmi.  My favorite Korean food blogger, Maangchi makes this Korean snack