Resources: Where to buy all those strange ingredients in Hamburg

Hongfu Asian Market
Gotenstrasse 3
20097 Hamburg (Hammerbrook)
Tel. 040 54 80 77 99
A bit hard to locate, but behind this Asian imbiss is a huge pan-Asian market, “der mit den Zwergenpreisen” (and for once the advertising is true).

Anssar Markt
Steindamm 11
20099 Hamburg
Tel. 040 2434 22
Has a good selection of Indian foodstuffs and spices, including fresh spices and hard-to-find vegetables.

Yuan Ye
Bugenhagenstr. 5
20095 Hamburg
(040) 30 39 21 20
Good Asian market, reasonable prices and very clean – next to Saturn (on the side towards the Rathaus - not the not-so-clean Vietnamese place on the Hauptbahnhof side)

Lindenbazar
Lindenstrasse 41 (off Steindamm, behind the big mosque)
20099 Hamburg
(040) 28052213-14
Fantastic huge and inexpensive Persian market, all kinds of Middle Eastern food and veggies

Adese Markt
Rieckhoffstr. 8-10 (behind the Cinemaxx and the Marktkauf)
21973 Hamburg (Harburg)
(040) 794 16 687
There's a good reason this place calls itself 'Der Ethnomarkt!' - foreign foods of every stripe, crammed into a huge supermarket. Great selection of fresh spices and strange veggies.