<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> Thank you all so much for your many suggestions about shopping in Oriental Markets. Here are the items that you suggested: tapioca starch -- 69 cents per pound=20 glutinous rice flour -- 59 cents per pound (same as sweet rice flour I = think) sweet rice flour =20 potato starch white rice flour yam flour taro flour sweet potato flour (same as yam flour??) fufu flour plantain flour lotus root flour corn starch chick pea flour (Chanal Dal Graham flour) - Indian Thai or Vietnamese rice noodles (usually labeled for sale in US with ingredients listed in English) Thai or Vietnamese spring roll wraps bean threads (noodles) Chinese rice sticks (noodles) Chinese rice noodles called miafun or siafun potato starch noodles assorted rice pastas assorted soy produts for soups soba noodles - from pure buckwheat, but may have wheat flour added Chao Ching Rice Sticks -- just pour boiling water over them and let sit for a couple of minutes -- easier than wheat pasta Poha - rice flakes for cereal, substitute for oatmeal in recipes Rice crackers from Taiwan called WantWant (person was wheat intolerant not celiac so read label) unusual fruit and vegetables such as calamunden, mangoes, chayote squash other veggies - greens, long beans, sprouts, baby cucumbers, fresh bamboo shoots, unusual mushrooms pickled cucumbers in a bag in refrigerator case (whole or chunk) canned straw mushrooms pickled baby corn in cans or fresh in produce section lentils, beans, chickpeas dried Asian mushrooms fresh or dried Asian vegetables Vietnamese meat balls (read labels as not all are GF) fresh fish and seafood, including sushi Dried shimp and dried squid rice (10 pounds for $25) many other different kinds of rice sticky rice teas such as jasmine (loose leaf and bags) soy sauce - check label for GF kind teriyaki sauce - check label for GF fish sauce sweet chili sauce - says use for chicken, but uses on red meat patika curry paste -- if you like hot stuff, mostly all are GF cookies made from sweet puffed rice tapioca flour cookies rice candy -- takes forever to read labels to make sure GF thin rice paper to make your own nougat -- someone makes nougat using nuts, glace cherries, or fruit, honey and glucose candied ginger - great cooked with sweet potatoes and orange juice toasted sesame seeds agar agar -- thickening agent from seaweed Pappadums -- flat Indian bread made from lentils, rice or chick pea flour and almost always GF Other suggestions were to keep with labels/stickers that are translated into English. Also, try an Oriental cooking class -- maybe as a couple. They are lots of fun. Buy a good Asian cookbook and/or watch Yan Can Cook or Ming Tsai on cooking networks for recipes/tips. Beware of sauces and dips unless you can read the labels. Not all labels can be trusted. Ask the shopkeeper and hopefully they can translate to English. One person buys large quantities of flour and marks with date purchased and stores in freezer. Freezes well. Half sweet rice flour and half white rice flour works well in cookies. Use 1/4 sweet rice flour and 3/4 white rice flour for coffee cakes, etc. One person mentioned that they had a problem with getting contaminated flour at an Oriental Market and got sick. I hope that you all find these tips as helpful as I did. I can't wait for my first trip to the Oriental Market. I better plan to have lots of time for my first visit. Thank you all again. I don't know what I would do without you. Barbara in Illinois