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Tuesday, January 27, 1987
Daily Nebraskan
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By Merry Hayes
Staff Reporter
Crammed between toilet seats of
Knight's Plumbing and the paint cans
of Kryger's Glass Company lie figs from
India, flour from Pakistan and gum
from Greece.
King Tut's Groceries and Im
ported Goods, 1642 0 St., sells Mid
dle Eastern, Greek and Oriental food,
pastries and gifts.
Beneath the posters of Nefertiti, the
Sphinx and the pyramids of Egypt lie
Turkish coffee, Syrian spices and Rus
sian mustard.
Stacked on the shelves are cans of
squid, coconut milk, curry powder and
Campbell's soup. Campbell's soup?
"I sell a little bit of food from Ameri
can groceries," said Yosry Bishay, owner
of King Tut's. "Foreign students on
campus can come here at night instead
of driving a long time. I have the stuff
they need."
Stacked on more shelves are bottles
of olive oil from Greece, Spain and
Italy. Olive, vegetable and corn oil are
stored in bulk, and customers can fill
their own jars. Customers can refill
their jars with fresh honey made in
Fairmont.
Bishay said the most popular items
are Greek olives, red lentils, fresh bak
lava, pita bread, halva (a Lebanese
sesame-seed desert) and feta cheese.
Cheeses galore
He said the Greek and Bulgarian feta
cheeses are favorites of Iranians, Greeks,
Lebanese, Syrians and Oriental people.
He said he also sells this cheese to the
Cornhusker Hotel and the University
Club.
Bishay said King Tut's sells more
imported cheese than any other store
in Lincoln. These hard-to-find cheeses
are imported from France, Switzerland,
Greece, Romania, Bulgaria and Hun
gary. Two other hard-to-find items are
precooked and prepackaged gyros lamb
Tonight's Lincoln Symphony Orches
tra concert features Cynthia Lawrence,
winner of the J. Edmunds and Thelma
Miller Award for Young Artists. The 8
p.m performance, under the direction
of Robert Emile, will be at O'Donnell
Auditorium on the Nebraska Weselyn
campus, 50th and Huntington streets.
"Symphony Previews," a pre-concert
introduction to the evening's program,
will be given at 7:30 p.m. Ticket infor
mation is available through the sym
phony office, 474-5010.
Lawrence will play the "Concerto for
Saxophone and String Orchestra" by
Lars-Erik Larsson. Written for Sigurd
Rascher, the renowned Swedish vir
tuoso, the work explores the limits of
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meat and fresh lamb meat butchered in
Wilbur.
Once a week Bishay sells falafel
sandwiches he makes from African and
Turkish fava beans. King Tut's sells
small fava beans, large fava beans,
split, cooked and canned fava beans.
Other rare imported goods available
are Egyptian shell necklaces and key
chains and "early Islamic coins" dated
from 700 to 1300 B.C.
Another import food store, The
Saigon Market, 1035 G St., sells
imported goods from Thailand, Taiwan,
China, Japan, Korea and France.
Huan Van Nang, son of the owner,
said for four years the Saigon Market
has been catering to Lincoln's Vietna
mese, Laotian, Korean and Indian
populations.
"I sell for my people and for some
Americans," he said. "They need a
place to go for Asian food."
Stacked among the sardines, bam
boo shoots, pickled lime, chili sauce,
tamarind and fish maw from Thailand
are radishes, facial creams, clothes and
video cassettes from Taiwan; pickled
leeks, mushrooms and bonbons from
China; blankets and ginger-root tea
from Korea; and pate, butter and coffee
from France. Other oddities sold there
are "Zoro Zoro Cockroach Traps" from
Japan. The box, designed with dead
and dying cockroaches in tuxedos,
claims the product will "Hit'm where
they live!"
Oriental videos
Chinese and Taiwanese videos such
as "Buddha's Magic Palm," "The Fallen
Family" and "Billboard of Gods" can be
rented, and Chinese pills for over
eating, over-drinking, hemorrhoids,
impotence and low spirits can be
bought there.
The Oriental Market, 612 N.
27th St., also offers a variety of Asian
foods.
Sirirat Ruenprom, who with her hus
band has owned the store for 10 years,
the technical abilities of the saxophone.
Also on the evening's program are
"Symphony No. 7" by Beethoven and
"Escales" by Jacques Ibert. Described
as a work of profound contentment and
irrepressible gaiety an "essay in
human happinesss" the symphony
is more subtle and no less profound
than Beethoven's famous. Fifth Sym
phony. "Escales" ("Ports of Call") is a
colorful work in which each movement
describes a different exotic setting.
The second movement is particularly
evocative, with an extensive oboe solo
recalling the Moorish atmosphere of
Tunis.
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Avan Van Dant waits on customers at The Saigon
said some of the Japanese food she
sells cannot be found in other Lincoln
stores.
Some examples are Japanese noo
dles, roasted seaweed, soy-bean paste,
yam cakes and fish sauce.
She said another rarely found item is
Asepso soap. This is Nigerian soap used
for skin problems.
She said the best-selling items are
the 20 to 25 brands and flavors of
noodles.
"The instant noodles are very popu
lar because they are convenient," she
Arts & Entertainment Letter
Murphy not in Tones
I didn't think it could happen,
but the Daily Nebraskan has reviewed
a record twice (Review Board, Jan.
26). At the beginning of the fall
semester the DN published a favor
able review of Love and Rockets'
new album, "Express." And on
Monday Charles Lieurance once
again sings the praises of "Express."
It seems apparent to me that Lier
ance liked the album so much he
was just dying to lend his writing
talents to a review of it, so the editor
said, "OK, wait until next semester,
and if the record is still on the col
lege charts, you can write a second
review of it." But it's not the review I
object to, not even the fact that it
has already been reviewed. It just
seems like Lieurance should check
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The Oriental Market imports beans
and canned tropical fruit from Thai
land, soy-bean and sugar-cane soft
drinks from Singapore, soy sauce from
Jakarta, chocolate spread from Italy
and vegetable seeds from China. Other
rarities sold are candy from Switzer
land, red pepper from Holland and sea
soning from Hong Kong.
Convenience for refugees
Ruenprom said most of her custo
mers are Oriental and about 15 to 20
percent are American.
his facts before giving a history of
the band.
The most glaring error is in say
ing that Peter Murphy was in Tones
on Tail, which was in fact a solo
effort started before the breakup by
guitarist Daniel Ash and Glen Cam
pling (a Bauhaus roadie). It later
grew to include Bauhaus drummer
Kevin Haskins, but never Peter
Murphy.
Despite the errors (like calling
the Power Station "Power Supply"),
Lieurance does manage to notice
the elements in "Kundalini Express"
that no one seemed to catch, espe
cially the T. Rex and Stones refer
ences, but he overdoes the catchy
phrases like "darkly psychedelic
buzzsaw guitars," "midtempo riff-
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She said the Oriental Market is con
venient for refugees because they don't
have to travel to bigger cities to find
Oriental food.
"Long ago, when I came here in 1972
(from Cambodia), Lincoln didn't have
Oriental food. I had to go to Omaha to
get it," Reunprom said.
She said an increase in the number
of refugees in Lincoln cause the crea
tion of Oriental food stores.
"Now everywhere you can find
Oriental food in cities like Lincoln,"
she said.
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rockers" and "schizophrenic hodge
podge." He also apparently doesn't
recognize that "Ball of Confusion"
was Love and Rockets' first single
from way back in '85, and was stuck
on the end of side one by the Ameri
can record company and thankfully
doesn't appear on the import version.
Thomas Irvin
Lincoln
Editor's note: Evidently a
reviewer wrote a critique of
the import version of the
album last fall. We received a
domestic review copy of "Ex
press" from the record com
pany and forgot that it had
already been reviewed. We
regret the error.