Chung Chou City

Has everything you would need for a Cantonese engagement party, 過大禮. One stop shopping.

A tidy little store sells dried shitakes packaged in everything from loose bits and pieces in UN relief mission sized sacks, to individually wrapped display boxes with tennis-​ball sized mushrooms as perfectly round and crusted as a fine vase. Even the fanciest ones are cheaper than you would find at Whole Foods and the fifteen or twenty other grades go down to the price point at which mushrooms can be considered a staple food.
Many grades of dried scallops, squids, fishes, shark fins, bird nests, and other assorted Chinese ingredients, all carefully displayed. It has the feel of an herbalist, only none of the more exotic herbs and cubbies. This one is all about the food. They cater to restaurants and home chefs alike. And it’s part of a big chain — in your city too.
If you’ve been putting off making your own jook, now you have no excuse. Just imagine that baby with some reconstituted abalone, or the sweetness and chewy clam-​like mouth feel of dried mushrooms in mirin sauce over rice. Yow!