Better Place To Buy Bok Choy
I love bok choy and would like it to be a regular part of my meal plans. I have always purchased it at Whole Foods but this year the selection has been horrible. I would pull one out and the leaves are all limp and looks like a bug has been chomping on it. I wrote a complaint about this but they still look horrible.
Is there a good/bad time to buy bok choy? are there better selections in Chinatown?
any links to yummy recipes?
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13 Comments:
if you're at one of the green markets in nyc, check out migliorelli farm ... they usually have very nice baby bok choy.
pooch at 9:00AM on 07/11/09
There are a couple vendors at the Union Square greenmarket who've had really nice-looking bok choy lately. I haven't tried it--we get ours from the CSA--but it looks fresh and crisp, not wilty. Saw it while I was looking for extra parsley for the bunny :-)
littlestcapy at 9:49AM on 07/11/09
chinatown.
sustarz at 3:25PM on 07/11/09
check out the Carroll Gardens Farmers Market on Sundays on the corner of Smith and Carroll Street in Brooklyn. One of the farmer's has all sorts of bok choy i've never heard of before (spicy, lemon, miniature) and all at good prices too.
avryan at 5:40AM on 07/12/09
Any Asian market will have the best and the freshest. The stuff in your grocery store is probably an afterthought for the produce broker and the quality will suffer.
2saucey at 3:21PM on 07/12/09
I will definitely try that Carroll Gardens.
Thanks everyone!
QueenAlli at 7:34PM on 07/12/09
Definitely Chinatown.
Why get bok choy at Whole Foods if you can saunter down a few blocks and get it for much much cheaper and at better quality?
At Whole Foods its a frou frou novelty, an afterthought.
In Chinatown, its what's for dinner and it better be good.
fuuchan at 7:48PM on 07/12/09
I see that this is a NYC centric post. Given that, I am able to get BEAUTIFUL bok choy almost year round at my local Asian Grocery. I live in Anchorage Alaska. If you can't find it in NYC then you aren't trying very hard.
One of my favorite ways to eat the baby bok choy is to cut in half along the long axis. Drizzle with chile oil and seson with salt and pepper. Then grill over high heat for just a couple minutes. Good Stuff.
climbhighak at 8:52PM on 07/12/09
i forget the name of the farm, but they're at the farmer's market in union square and they sell like kimchi and stuff in addition to vegetables, and they always have two for five dollars later in the day, and their stuff is pretty good.
billyburgwife at 11:19PM on 07/12/09
Chinatown (NYC) is the best place for bok choy. Shop on East Broadway or Grand Street. Prices are really cheap.
Tweet202 at 9:01AM on 07/13/09
I'm throwing my vote in for chinatown. There are a lot of options all along Grand street. If one store doesnt look good, go to a different one. Much cheaper, and if some of the quality isnt the best, they can make up for it in volume. It lets you be choosy.
If you're in brooklyn, Great Wall Supermarket on Fort Hamilton is probably my dad's favorite place to get groceries.
engmcmuffin at 9:18AM on 07/13/09
Fuuchan - thanks, but where I am there is no sauntering to Chinatown.
Climbhigak- never said i couldn't find any but it gets really tiring buying groceries from 5-6 different places. Riding the subway and bus with bags of groceries is exhausting.
Whole Foods may be shi shi fu fu but it's 100 times better than supermarkets in my area with much better service. Unless Wegman's comes here, Whole Foods will be one of my go to places.
QueenAlli at 1:12PM on 07/13/09
There's a Chinatown near Brooklyn, as well.
Or the one in Flushing if that's anywhere you can feasibly reach.
I'd say the Brooklyn and Flushing Chinatowns are even better than the original since there's less pressure from gentrification or rising rent rates and the residents are recent immigrants as well as a lot of young, lively folk.
fuuchan at 10:38PM on 07/13/09