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The fact that I can walk to grocery shop in my pajamas and sandals all year round and have not one, but three different stores within a block or two from where I live in SF where I can get my choice of soy sauce and fish sauce and fresh laksa leaves and galangal is.. pretty unique and not easy to replicate elsewhere in this country.

Very often I’m cooking something very SE Asian and forgot something and I can just GO DOWNSTAIRS TO GET GALANGAL. While speaking my native language.