Rag1
Executive Chef
Sorry if this is a little long. Some may find it interesting.
Made a trip to S. Phila's Italian market yesterday. What a great place.
The locals call it the 9th Street market because in consists of several blocks of food stalls along 9th St.
There are 55 gal drums with burning pallets in them to keep the vendors warm. Open air fish mongers, world class cheese stores (you have to duck around huge hanging cheeses), exotic meet market, etc.
http://usera.imagecave.com/Rag/9thSt/
We bought a string of garlic for a buck, our xmas duck, a piece of Gator fillet, a 5# bag of goat meat (sauteed a piece up last night as a taste test....was VERY good and tender), fresh dry scallops, fresh anchovies, salted anchovies, and other stuff.
We had a Phila cheese steak sandwich w/ sauce, onions cheese and mushrooms in this little 'hole in the wall' joint that makes the worlds best. Can't get this anywhere else.
The pic of the store window has pig, goat and mystery carcases hanging up. Everybody seemed to have live ells (an Italian thing).
Barb is standing in front of the grafitte covered plastic sheet in one shot.
Several blocks away is a Chineese super market......a big one like a Giant store. They have stuff in there that I can't even gusss at. Live frogs, monster crabs, live fish and (drum roll)....."pig uterus". That's right Sunshine, whole 3# packs of uterus....all pink and nasty looking. How's that cooked? stuffed? All right, back on track here.
If you cook. this is a fantasic area to check out.
Made a trip to S. Phila's Italian market yesterday. What a great place.
The locals call it the 9th Street market because in consists of several blocks of food stalls along 9th St.
There are 55 gal drums with burning pallets in them to keep the vendors warm. Open air fish mongers, world class cheese stores (you have to duck around huge hanging cheeses), exotic meet market, etc.
http://usera.imagecave.com/Rag/9thSt/
We bought a string of garlic for a buck, our xmas duck, a piece of Gator fillet, a 5# bag of goat meat (sauteed a piece up last night as a taste test....was VERY good and tender), fresh dry scallops, fresh anchovies, salted anchovies, and other stuff.
We had a Phila cheese steak sandwich w/ sauce, onions cheese and mushrooms in this little 'hole in the wall' joint that makes the worlds best. Can't get this anywhere else.
The pic of the store window has pig, goat and mystery carcases hanging up. Everybody seemed to have live ells (an Italian thing).
Barb is standing in front of the grafitte covered plastic sheet in one shot.
Several blocks away is a Chineese super market......a big one like a Giant store. They have stuff in there that I can't even gusss at. Live frogs, monster crabs, live fish and (drum roll)....."pig uterus". That's right Sunshine, whole 3# packs of uterus....all pink and nasty looking. How's that cooked? stuffed? All right, back on track here.
If you cook. this is a fantasic area to check out.