During COVID, Carmen Kept Serving
When other restaurants stepped back, Carmen kept serving. 'They have a gap. We don't.' Her story of the pandemic years in Montreal's Chinatown.
Five-Dollar Tea and Fair Prices: How Fosetter Thinks About Value
Carmen never presses her suppliers on price and sells a five-dollar tea made with expensive chenpi. To her, that is what value for money really means.
This Shop Was a Bakery Before It Was a Ginseng Shop
In 2009 this address was a bakery called Callia. In 2015 Carmen told her partners not to waste the spot and give it back, and it became a ginseng shop.
Pay Rent When You Have Business Again
Carmen asked her landlord for a break on rent. He told her not to pay at all until she had business again. Her story of the people who helped.
How Fosetter Opened Its Storefront
Our business puts the trade first. Carmen on how she got into American ginseng and everything it took to open a real shop in Chinatown.
Everyone Here Was Brought In by Someone
The number on our door is one staff member's birthday, and Carmen owes her start in American ginseng to a supplier who taught her to check the goods.