Elmhurst Ginseng & Herbs

This reminds me of one of those magical places you see on TV, where you walk into an old shop open by strange people. Either strange by age and deformity or ethnicity, and you look around and see all sorts of glass jars containing preserved appendages and dried things like sea cucumbers, dead eggs, 6 types of ginseng, and $ 88 per pound plants. And a huge wall of 88 wooden drawers with foreign lettering on each of them.
You can probably get ingredients for potions that will make you popular or make other people break out in purple spots and even find those elusive items in the peanut butter solution. «One ripe banana, 5 dead flies, put it on my head…»
I got the spicy anchovy sauce which the owner nostalgically and excitedly told me he puts on everything. When I went to pay, he was in the corner of the room, with a curtain around him in a spur of the moment operating room, operating on someone’s feet. Not appetizing, though not surprising.
Whatever this store is, it’s a good one. Next time I have a foot problem or a spell to cast, I will be sure to return.
And the very next day…
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