Grocery store annoyance
I stopped last evening at the H-mart, a large Asian grocery near me. It's Korean based, but has quite a lot of other Asian foods. Nope. Not only couldn't I find Lobo, but I couldn't find panang curry paste at all! There were a handful of curries, but nothing recognizable. And no Thai red or green chili pastes at all. But if you need 900 different soy sauces, that's your place!
There's a Chinese based market nearby, too, so I'll try that. It might be that I either have to rely on the "stuff" in the international aisle of the local grocery ($3 for a tablespoon of paste!), or go into center city Philadelphia to Chinatown. That, of course, adds $3 for the bridge, plus parking, just to get curry paste!
I think the internet is my friend - mail order r us!