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Watch as Adina Steiman navigates the aisles of Kalustyan's, Manhattan's legendary Indian specialty foods store.

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How to Shop at an Indian Supermarket | Epicurious

1. Jojo L: I've been to this place when walking around in the neighborhood! Had zero idea to buy what...
2. John Kawakami: I think we have halva in America too. It's the Butterfinger bar. LOL. JK.
3. Berika •: haha tamek :)
4. Kitten Lover07: Crushi.com hope you poked holes in them unless you want hiroshima potatoes
5. Kim Schuler: I feel like this is a very niche interest. perhaps that's why
6. EMS 76: I think recipes are more helpful than meandering around supermarkets marveling over the food like a Columbian explorer seeing a tomato for the first time in the Americas and fondling it in awe and wonder
7. Lantzmania !: I like her
8. buddigabong: uh this isn't indian. they don't sell frozen rabbit at an indian supermarket.
9. Pinaki Chall: Common why does everything starts with spices and ends with curry, Indian culinary is beyond that not just your currry.
10. buddigabong: she's alright. it's just not an indian market. it's arab. there are a lot of indian spices and similarities but you can't get a frozen rabbit at any indian market.
11. EMS 76: It's the way she is very close to exoticizing foreign cultures. I am fairly clear that isn't her intent and she actually knows a fair amount about food ... but i can forgive some people for picking up an ounce of "naive white girl discovers the orient" vibe from her. Some of the other videos have her literally fondling asian fruit.
12. Marko Jay: Stop reaching. The only food she described as "curry" in flavour were the chips. Stop getting triggered, she isn't human google but she knows quite a bit about food. Definitely more than you know.
13. queensussk: Didn't you notice that they had the whole pig and other animals in the Russian store? Maybe she felt uncomfortable touching the rabbit in that store because it seemed so life like unlike the rabbit meat in this store.
14. Khanh Kha Minh: Why can't she do that? Have you not thought that maybe she actually went through the comments and feedbacks and thought to herself that she needed to improve during the following videos??? Don't you think she was mustering all her bravery to take the frozen rabbit out for the audience just because some of you guys called it out last time? Now should she delete the Russian market video and film it all over again just to touch the frozen rabbit?
15. belinda L.: Not Indian, Very Very . . . Sure！
16. Zohrab Tomboulian: As she stated in the video, it’s an Armenian spice market. Because of the large Armenian diaspora the market has a Mediterranean twist; which is why there is mujedereh, which is Lebanese and other foods. The market has made room for other foods/spices. So that’s why you guys are seeing a clash of different cultural foods. Yes, not everything is Indian but our cultures are very similar by the foods and spices we use.
17. Emil Pereira: great selection but the people who run/own Kalustyan's are assholes.
18. Jamal Shakkour: This is Palestinian food
19. Jennifer Kelly: I came down here to comment this too. haha
20. Dahlia AL: Alexandra Majluf we have halwas too.. Out of local ingredients.. N btw Indians started dry fruits so its not middle eastern at all.
21. Sarah Alota: Should’ve called it Middle Eastern store! Because those spices yogurt and food are all famous in Middle East!
22. vardges arsenyan: i knew it was armenian founded from the name
23. Swann Meadow: Nooo
24. John Kawakami: If I ate like that, I'd be as big as I am today.
25. eirik nystrom: goods from turkey , persia and middle east are shown and ofcourse the raw huge selection of indian raw spices.
26. big bahooga: the only thing she said was curry was the chips, and tiki masala is a dish served in curry sauce. are you stupid?
27. OSHIN GUPTA: Tara Rae Actually in India, some chip packets are glued pretty tightly..so it's kinda hard to open it the other way.
28. Madame Sativa: bebina exactly!
29. Chucky chuck: Girl that's not kouskous that's berkoukes.
30. Bea boo: this is Arabic food
31. Marko Jay: "Now walking through Kalustyans is like switching channels between dozens of food cultures". She never said where Balkava or Halva originated
32. Vivek Balchandani: i don't know what do you mean by indian supermarket but kalustyan is not in delhi or mumbai two of the biggest metropolitian cities in india
33. Dahlia AL: Middleeasterners most of your spices n fruits come from Africa n Asia.. So stop ranting. Most Indian food were renamed after Muslim ruled. We too have halwas called in local names... Common sense you'll.. N yes we do eat meat.
34. Aayushi Vasnik: The hottest chillies are from Nagaland, India not Bangladesh. In fact 'Naga mircha' (naga chilli) was written on top of the packet.
35. bebina: I think you need to get someone who knows something about ethnic grocers. Anyone could go and taste test, but you need someone who knows how to cook with the ingredients.
36. peter neagle: For a food that is basically a peasant food, the ingredients there seem very expensive for Indian food.
37. jsalnut: At 5:41 When it shows the cute guy and Adina says "My favorite" I thought they were going to have a love at first sight thing.
38. Liz S: I feel like she has no idea what she's looking at. Indian cooks don't care about Scoville levels... wish someone more experienced would make a video like this. how does she work at Epicurious??? It's like watching an eleventh grader who has never cooked anything before try to tell people about how to shop in an ethnic grocery.
39. Arline Jernigan: agree
40. Berika •: Kaymaklı means with its cream on top
41. Harshi Gandla: this was a middle eastern market what also i feel like this is a really a taste test video rather than a comprehensive guide on how to buy items from foreign grocers but hey you do you 🤷🏾‍♀️
42. Phuk Dat: the place probably smells like shit.
43. Upasna Kapoor: it aint an indian market, middle east is very very far from india. the cameraman seems worse than an amateur. Keeps zooming in/out and shaking. I saw two videos and have a headache now. The host is the only saving grace of this dismal show
44. talia maloof: In case of the future, it is pronounced Za-ta, not zatar. But you were close.
45. Crushi! Official Music and Video Channel: I've got three potatoes in the oven at 375 degrees at an hour on the timer. I can smell them now. Let's see what happens? Will I put salt and pepper on them? Yes. Will I eat them? Yes. Would they taste better with any of these spices? Yes! Thank you. You are making me weak.
46. eirik nystrom: it was a weird mix of Indian masala's and other raw ingredients, some Turkish, Persian and Arabic lol , definitely not exclusively Indian that's for sure ....certainly the establishment caters to more than the desi community .
47. sourcheesepringles: roangavin she sounds lazy but not annoying. And yeah i noticed that frozen rabbit thingy
48. CHALKO OWL: Lays!!!!!
49. - HerTearsWereMyLight -: why?
50. Meghana Manjunath: The problem is with the title that says 'How to shop'. She isn't exactly showing that. Just picking up random things and reviewing them at each store.
51. Yash Gupta: I am annoyed because I have seen her other videos about japanese, korean, asian stores. Her videos often have her just making ridiculous comments about exotic produce(asian supermarket video) and in rare instances, giving insight into what cooking with some exotic ingredient is like(Japanese supermarket video). So to rightfully call out the ill researched half baked videos titled 'how to shop at x grocery store…' as ignorant, is not entirely unfair. And it is worse when even the store doesn't claim to be representing the culture she thinks the store is representing. Kalustyan's entrance reads "A landmark for fine specialty foods of the world"
52. Potassuim_Cation: The only reason to live in a city, TBH
53. jja77a: Carolina Reaper is a hybrid of Naga Bhut and Red Habanero
54. Scandi Snowgirl: Liz S scoville units are a way to describe the heat level when someone can’t actually taste it
55. Priestess Auset Ra Amen: Wow!! I would go crazy in the spice isle.
56. Swann Meadow: About 70 percent spices are exported to all over world from INDIA...even to middle East🤓
57. John Kawakami: I like that she's going to the deli counter to get food. I sometimes go into stores that cater to immigrant communities, and it's nice to get something to eat, and get some snacks and packaged foods, to learn what the food tastes like. It's for beginners!
58. gamesaregood 97: Why the fck is she just opening the
59. K S: Interesting Vlog. But FYI ghost chilli or bhut jolokia is grown in the North Eastern region of India, not Bangladesh.
60. Whiskey Black: Oh man, talk about food porn. I wanna run away & live in this store!
61. henry: Phuk Dat shut up racist.
62. Drishya Pavithran: I'm Indian and I can attest to the fact that you can only open chips packet that are manufactured for India (without a pair of scissors, of course) from the sides. So there you go.
63. Meghana Manjunath: How to shop at an Indian supermarket? Push past the crowds, make sure your trolley doesn't hit any aunties, find the cheapest stuff, haggle as much as possible and go home with the bounty.
64. Apel Pie: is no one gonna talk about the fact that she's eating inside the supermarket?
65. Scandi Snowgirl: Actually that’s incorrect now. Hottest pepper in the world is currently the Carolina Reaper
66. Jay Cobbina: Indian too
67. Kiran Pandiyan: buddigabong shops rarely sell frozen meat in Indian markets
68. Hemant Saikia: Wow. Now our very own Bhut jolokia being called bangladeshi. Shame on you. It is Assamese/north east indian. Dont call it bangladeshi again😑
69. Mohd Khalid: billybonewhacker it's called bots
70. MummySha: So disappointing! The title of this vlog is misleading as there is very little Indian food covered. Please do a proper vlog about a real Indian supermarket with real Indian food items, which this one is not.
71. Holly Wollygog: roangavin gtfo
72. Sowiso4: Dr Pocot We have a lot of intercultural Markets here in Germany. There are Asian ones, Russian ones and also Middle Eastern ones. You should clearly get out of your bubble, cause that is a pretty ignorant statement.
73. Gabrielle Elizabeth: The Mexican supermarket video was very bad
74. Franz Berger: she eats soo much still so thin...
75. Scandi Snowgirl: Farhan Anzum Hoque Sadid lol I love spicy food man.
76. Evan Hong: 1:38 = I smell weed and it got me high
77. Cyanide Pill: In Russia we make halva with sunflower seeds instead of sesame.
78. roangavin: So she won't touch the frozen rabbit from the Russian grocery video, but she will in the Indian video. At least she isn't body hugging and dropping produce again. She gets more annoying with each video. Love her insights and open mindedness but ....mostly annoying. Have to stop watching this series.
79. Sowiso4: We have Halva in Russia too. Its made with sunflower seeds. But it pretty sure hasn't originated in Russia :P
80. Scandi Snowgirl: Farhan Anzum Hoque Sadid nope, the Carolina Reaper holds that title now
81. SPHEX 1: $75! WOW rip-off!!!
82. Someone: Total savage. Probably a psychopath too.
83. Aayushi Vasnik: mc 707 because it's from nagaland. I was there last year and I saw the king chilli plantation. It could be grown in bangladesh too.
84. John Kawakami: It's just where they make these shows. There are ethnic stores on the West Coast as well.
85. Meghana Manjunath: Exactly! She needs to talk about the most bought ingredients and what dishes can be cooked with each of them. Not randomly testing the most obscure food.
86. Al B: What qualifications would you suggest for someone to be able to be able to shop in an Indian supermarket then? R/gatekeeping
87. Nikola Gerginekov: I want to punch her
88. John Kawakami: It's just context. This store clearly saw an opportunity in the gourmet space as well as the immigrant space, and decided to go broad and cover a large expanse of geography. Ethnic communities sometimes surge in size, then fragment as people move away, leaving shop owners with a shrinking market. They need to adapt to survive.
89. Hawaa Sarwary: A B not really
90. latinamarie80: Ahh lots of Arabic foods-- mouth is watering, spices and tastes of my childhood
91. EMS 76: manythingwrong Ok. Now you have the rest of us curious ... can you tell us where it is grown then
92. tony chan: I agree, i find her adventures charming and she's entertaining without being pedantic. I've watched some of her other videos and they are all interesting. What's annoying are the moronic comments from viewers ..."i hope she pays for that!...etc etc. good grief.
93. John Kawakami: It's a beginner show for beginners.
94. Winkie Man: Why are these places always on the other side of the country?
95. Well okay then: Not Indian as many others have pointed out, but I really qant to go here!
96. Devanshi Mer: the frequency of the use of the word curry to describe the flavours shows how much she knows about 'Indian' flavours and how qualified she is to tell people how to shop at an Indian supermarket
97. vijju santoshi: u went to Indian market and ate Mediterranean food what is the use u should have talked more about Indian food or named this series as mixed food culture instead of Indian
98. Aayushi Vasnik: jja77a oh, this is new information.
99. Neven: there she go eating food again without paying
100. Exia: Lol this is more Middle Eastern or even Central/Eastern European food market. The only thing close to being Indian is the Halva...smh
101. Tee Tee: I neeeeeed
102. billybonewhacker: How does a channel with over 50k subscribers,have a video with only 485 views? And its over 2 weeks old. And it's split evenly 13thumbs up 6 thumbs down. I mean really wtf. I'm not downing it ,it's just weird.
103. Dr Pocot: Sagar Gupta probably should have watched the video, it clearly explained these were from multiple cultures as it evolved. Ugghh at least we have the options in the USA. Show me another country with grocery stores that cater to as many cultural tastes. Yeh there are none.
104. eternal alchemist: I've watched all the "how to shop" vids. Please do more! 😘
105. thenwhosflyingtheplane: Why are people so annoyed with her? This series isn't meant to be someone giving you comprehensive guide to a culture's food. It's a woman with an obvious passion for food & cooking going to a supermarket she isn't all that familiar with and giving her impressions and opinions, while educating herself and the viewer. I think she's quite articulate and fun, and though she isn't getting everything right, it's better to make a correction in good grace than complain.
106. Somin: i live in a greek and middle eastern area and this supermarket looks middle eastern.
107. goodsamwise: What do you do with sun dried eggplant, and also what can I do to get the man's number at 5:42? :)
108. Alexandra Majluf: I love it when she said "I'm probably wrong." Halva and Backlava are Middle Eastern foods. She does describe what the foods tastes like, which is nice, but we need someone knowledgeable.
109. KoRo?: Big fan of their homemade Ma'moul as well as their Mujdarra/Basturma sandwiches.
110. Kiran Pandiyan: sanjana guha Halwa actually comes from Middle East to India it was brought by Muslim rulers.
111. William Tolbert: Great channel
112. EQ WOW: Everything about Indian stores, food, people all smell bad because they eat waaaaaaayaayyyyyyyyy tooooo mucccchhhhh spices. They don't seem to have a limit or measuring device for spice quantity. Food is about quality and not quantity like Indian and Chinese populations!
113. Ant: You have made this series absolutely unwatchable you dumb millennial
114. Nayeem Sharar: world's hottest chili grown in Bangladesh!!!
115. Susan Duquette: Hottest chili's are Carolina Reapers
116. Ejaaz Ahmed: The bhut jolokia (ghost chili or Naga chili) is found all over the NE region of India and Northern Bangladesh. Used to be the hottest in the past until scientist genetically improved the Carolina reaper which is now the hottest chili on the planet.
117. Sagar Gupta: 90% of the things in the video are not indian .!! was really looking forward to this video, but you had to ruin it .😥😥
118. T R: 3:10 the only person in the world to open chips like that
119. EMS 76: Umar Yusuf. I has become pretty obvious that it is far more than Indian. It seems to cover foods everywhere between Arabia and the Caucasus to the edge of southeast Asia.
120. Salty Seawitch: Watching this video, just son much I would love to get my hands on.
121. Farhan Sadid: Scandi Snowgirl, Congrats! Well, you might not used to eat spicy food. But we are. Anyhow, I just joked. I knew that carolina reaper is the hottest chilli in the world.
122. mc 707: Aayushi Vasnik it's saids that it is grown in Bangladesh. How do you know it is from Bangladesh or not?
123. Jordan Benjamin: How can you go into an indian supermarket and not show ghee?
124. Yacobus Fitri: How do you stop diarrhea after spicy Indian meal?
125. Farhan Sadid: World's hottest chillies are grown in Bangladesh. That's why we can and we love eating spicy foods. Also we have very sweet sweets. Watch at 1:37.
126. Dahlia AL: Sagar Gupta tu kabhi market gaya kya... Lol. All these are exported to middle east. Ask a mallu
127. Umar Yusuf: That looks more to Pakistani than Indian
128. Kalanchoe 6: Because this store is not authentic Indian. It is more of a mix of middle eastern and Indian.
129. annabelle erickson: In India, groceries shop you!
130. John Kawakami: (Yeah, spice trade was the reason why Columbus landed in the Carribean.)
131. باسم القاسم الهأجر: جميل جدا
132. Sparsh Sundriyal: Good video. But most of the food items showed in this are not Indian.
133. John Kawakami: It's enough reason.
134. Hawaa Sarwary: Tara Rae no indian packages are like that. It’s impossible to open from the top without scissors
135. William Tolbert: I loved your videos until I saw how you open a bad of potato chips. Lol
136. Someone: You need glasses mate.
137. manythingwrong: Ghost paper is not grown in Bangladesh
138. Gloria: Yeah! For each shop it would be nice if she had someone from that ethnic bg who went to that market often, that way they could share what they shop for and etc.
139. sourcheesepringles: Saffron ice cream is so yummy😍😍 and i miss the vine leaves omg
140. Kiran Pandiyan: Damn I have never seen so much variety even in India. Mind blowing. Would visit USA just to visit this shop.
141. Logic Gamer: the store looks more middle eastern than Indian. All the things you showed were middle eastern not Indian.
142. Hawaa Sarwary: Kaymak just mean cream i think ( also the kay is pronounced like kai not kay)
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