[Sca-cooks] Fw: Check out iKoreaPlaza - Online Korean Supermarket Selling Kimchi, Ramen, CDs,

[Elaine Koogler]

Dearest Dame Selene,
Check out the web site for Asian herbs
(http://www.foodsubs.com/HerbsAsian.html, and I'll think you can see that
they are not the same thing at all.  I gather that the sesame leaves have a
milder taste by the fact that you can substitute lettuce for them, whereas
the shiso leaves have a more pungent taste...and the side-by-side pictures
really show the differences in appearance.

Kiri
----- Original Message -----
From: "Susan Fox-Davis" <selene at earthlink.net>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 11:15 AM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Fw: Check out iKoreaPlaza - Online Korean
Supermarket Selling Kimchi, Ramen, CDs,


> ranvaig at columbus.rr.com wrote:
>
> > I looked at the picture and Korean "sesame" leaves look an awful lot
> > like Japanese "shisho" leaves, which are readily available from Japanese
> > stores.  I wonder if they are really the same, and if not, then what
> > is the difference?
> > http://www.ibiblio.org/herbmed/pictures/p-se/perilla-frutescens-1.jpg
> > http://www.ikoreaplaza.com/ikp/assets/product_images/KPSM04FP004.jpg
>
> Yeah, those are shiso leaves alrighty.  Nothing else looks like them, and
they do
> taste lovely.  I've recently moved into a neighborhood with a pronounced
Korean
> presence, so I'll have to lead the troops to the various Korean BBQ
restaurants
> to see if they do the same thing, offer the leaves to wrap up the
table-grilled
> goodies.  Ah, the things I do for research!
>
> In Japan, they come in both green and red.  Red shiso leaves are used as a
food
> coloring in pickled foods like umeboshi, the intense pickled unripe plums
that
> fulfill the function of a wake-up jolt and mouthwash in the mornings.  I
have not
> found red shiso here, which confounded my ume experiments, but did try the
green
> shiso and found them very nice.  In Southern California, I have =not=
found them
> at the widespread Kawa 99 Ranch Market chain , but at smaller "mom and
pop"
> Japanese markets in summer time.  Note that IKorea Plaza has them listed
as "out
> of stock" right now in mid-March.
>
> Selene, Caid
>
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