This is where Toronto has been getting Korean groceries for 50 years Toronto
The store has origins as a family business that stretches back to the 1970s, and it arguably popularized kimchi and made it more accessible in Toronto.
The charge was led by Chang Bok Lee, the eldest of the four brothers, Young Hee Lee , and Soon Bok Lee, the second oldest of the four brothers. available to be imported: chili powder, soy sauce, sesame oil. We had to import rice in bulk 100-pound bags and repackage them. When we started making kimchi, we had the health inspector come almost every week because someone complained we were selling 'rotten cabbage,'" says Sohn.
"The market for enoki mushrooms and king oyster mushrooms didn't really exist before the Korean-Canadian community created that demand. Ontario tofu companies were created to sell fresh tofu to our customers. Napa cabbage farms started to be formed in and around South Western Ontario during the mid-70s because our community needed it for kimchi," says Sohn.
Their Koreatown store has become well regarded not only for its wide selection of Korean products but also a stall, Kevin's Taiyaki, at the front of the store that serves bungeoppang : fish-shaped pastries with different fillings, made fresh before your eyes right inside the grocery store.was in 2011 that the bungeoppang vendor started their business," says Sohn.
In 1976, a PAT East location was opened in Scarborough, which moved around to various locations in the neighbourhood over its 20 years of operation until it closed in 2010. A PAT West location was also opened in 1977 that also operated for 20 years before it closed.
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