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The Dish Local Business A By Starr Oldorff 52|April/May • 2009 basket of silvery fish sat ready for the picking, as if washed up from a distant shore. Entire schools seemed to swim in the glass case – silver ones, bright pink ones and the showoff of them all, the luminescent parrot fish. And that’s just one corner of Sun Supermarket. Fayetteville’s ethnic markets offer a world tour, Asia to Europe. With the city’s great diversity come Asian, African, Middle Eastern and Latin groceries, bakeries and delis that nourish natives and newcomers alike. Beginners eager to try their hand at exotic recipes are encouraged here, inside bright, shiny and surprisingly large stores. Come, take a tour with us. And then see what happens when we go shopping with FTCC chefs Richard Kugelmann and RoseAnn Castro. You can find their recipes here. Sun Supermarket When Victor and Mi Kyoung Rojas opened Sun market, Victor went to the city’s Asian-American associations for one grand grocery list. Now, the store caters to 10 different nationalities. It sits just off busy Yadkin Road and from the outside, the store appears small. Step inside and you’ll find full-size grocery aisles stocked with an overwhelming array of spices and sauces, even kitchen appliances and clothing. One entire aisle is devoted to nothing but noodles. Pallets of 40-pound bags of rice are stacked head high. Jars of bright-red kim chi are bottled in-house. Rojas grew up in Puerto Rico, served in the U.S. military and married a television reporter from Korea. It explains his proficiency in three languages: English, Spanish and Korean. When he and Mi Kyoung decided to open a market,

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