Donald Trump put 25% tariffs on Canada. Canadians fight back by buying Canadian and boycotting U.S. goods.
When it comes to Asian groceries shopping, what Canadian products to buy and what American products to avoid? Let’s take a look at T&T supermarket which is the largest Asian supermarket chain in Canada.
T&T kitchen and bakery prepare food freshly daily at the supermarket using domestic and imported ingredients.
Vegetable, fruits and seafood are from all around the world. Shoppers need to pay attention to individual label to identify Canadian and American products.
Most meat and dairy products are locally sourced in Canada.
Most soy milk and tofu sold at T&T supermarket are made in Canada but some brands are American.
As for soy milk, only the brand name “Superior Natural” is American. All other soy milk with Chinese names are Canadian products.
There are many brand names when it comes to tofu. “T&T” and “Sunrise” are Canadian. “House Foods”, “San Sui” and “Superior Natural” are American.
Most fresh noodles and all dumpling wrappers are made locally in Toronto, including those made by Sun On Food Co.
Most frozen meals, buns and dumplings are made in Canada, China or USA.
T&T soup dumplings are made in Canada. But other regular dumplings may or may not be made in Canada.
T&T dumplings sold at T&T kitchen(hot or frozen) are made locally in Toronto at T&T’s own kitchen. However, those frozen T&T dumpling sold along with other brands are all products of USA.
Most dumplings under the brand name “Synear” are made in USA except Synear’s vegetarian dumplings which are 100% Chinese.
Bibigo Korean dumplings are also made in USA.
The best Canadian dumplings are made by Ten Ten Dim Sum in Toronto.