»In which we take a trip to Holland

To soothe my aching digestion, or perhaps to ease my addled mind, I took a trip down to Holland's Best, which I found through the internet: a "Dutch market brought home [to San Jose]". The shop turns out to be a small store in a strip mall, tucked in between Big Al's Record Barn ("everything 50% off except fixture's") and a Skin Diving Store. Holland's Best is far from a boutique: the dingy shelves are crammed with Dutch and Indonesian groceries, sambals, stroepwafeln, Delftware (shudder!), and bag after bag of candy.

I picked up a sackfull of Chocomel and a small bag of DubbleZout "extra salty" liquorice.