Exploring the Bay Area

Nijiya Market Nijiya Market is a chain of grocery stores that specialize in Japanese groceries. They have lots of things that are from Japan and are hard to come by in this country.  Their frozen section is full of ready-made Japanese foods, like yakisoba and gyoza. Everything is authentically Japanese because the store only features Japanese brands of Japanese food. They have an ample selection of Japanese breads and pastries. This includes milk bread and anpan (bean-paste stuffed bread), among other things. All the baked goods are arranged in an appetizing fashion, and there is an impressive number of them. They also carry Japanese mochi.  They have all types of Japanese sauces and condiments, mostly from Japanese imported brands. For example, they have Japanese soy sauce, ponzu sauce, and teriyaki sauce. These flavors are hard to come by in these parts, so it is very nice to find them here in California.  They sell specific cuts of meat for Japanese cooking, like suki...

Three Stone Hearth Three Stone Hearth is a specialty grocery store that focuses on providing the most nutritious items for a health-focused lifestyle.  Everything they sell comes from sustainability-sourced, high-quality ingredients. Their ingredients tend to be organic and non-GMO, from grass-fed and pasture-raised animals, and also local and seasonal.  They sell a wide variety of healthy foods that are hard to find elsewhere. They carry: slow-cooked bone broths; activated grains, beans, nuts, and seeds; cultured and lacto-fermented foods and beverages; traditional fats; liver and organ meats; brined pork; Celtic sea salt; traditional whole-food sweeteners; and plant medicine.