Our Mid-Autumn Mooncake List Is the Same Every Year
Every Mid-Autumn Fosetter has a mooncake list, and it's the same every year: suppliers, the landlord, customers. Carmen explains who's on it and why.
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.
Sometimes They Buy Thirty Boxes, and the Whole Suitcase Is Ginseng
No clothes, just thirty boxes of ginseng. A Fosetter staff member on who buys American ginseng and where it ends up.
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.
Where Our American Ginseng Is Grown, and the Permit Behind It
Every root on our shelves is grown in Canada. Here is the CITES export permit that proves it, what it takes to keep, and why it matters when you travel.