H Mart Coming To Town -- America: Best Country In The World -- August 12, 2023

Locator: 45439TX.

Fastest-growing metropolitan area in the US: DFW -- Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington, Plano, Frisco, east to Rockwall; west to Roanoke.

Haltom City: just two minutes down TX-121 from our hovel.

Announced this week: 

Link here.

What does this mean: for those in Minnesota, this is like the American Mall moving to our neighborhood.

H Mart Supermarket, link here.

H Mart (Korean: H 마트 or 한아름 마트) is an American supermarket chain of Asian supermarkets operated by the Hanahreum Group, headquartered in Lyndhurst, Bergen County, New Jersey. 

The chain has 84 stores throughout the United States, operated variously as H Mart, H Mart Northwest, and H Mart Colorado; two stores in the Pacific Northwest operate as G Mart. 

It also has stores in Canada and eight in the United Kingdom, including seven locations of Oseyo. 

H Mart is the largest U.S.-based grocery store chain that specializes in Asian-style products and caters to Asian-American shoppers. 

Note: my wife is 1/2 Japanese. The other half: Mexican. And not Tex-Mex. Real Mexican. 

The "H" in "H Mart" stands for Han Ah Reum (한아름), a Korean phrase meaning "one arm full of groceries". This phrase translates more literally to "spreading both arms to cover" or "armful".

For its particular niche, we prefer H Mart to Walmart. 

This is so incredibly wonderful, I'm crying also. The nearest H Mart right now is about 40 minutes away; the new H Mart? Fifteen minutes away.

Link here.

I did not know this -- until now -- but the brand of seaweed is very, very important to the Asians. May's mom, my mother-in-law, would only buy one brand of seaweed.

She also only bought gasoline at LA service stations owned and operated by Japanese families.