"I like fish," says a friend of mine, "but I don't know what to, well, do with it."

he's not alone. Mike Monahan, of Monahan's Seafood Market, says that he hears the same thing from customers almost every day.

Why was the new Kroger Food & Drug superstore on South Maple so long in opening?

Simple. There was a Moose in the way.

hen the Tam and Yue families opened Great Lake Chinese Seafood Restaurant on Carpenter Road seven years ago, they wanted to introduce Ann Arbor to what they considered authentic Chinese cuisine–not the Americanized deep-fried meats and sticky sweet-and-sour sauces that, they lament, are typical of local takeout. Now they’re opening an Asian supermarket for much the same reason. "We want to tell more about our food and culture to Western people," says Kwok Tam, "and we want to teach them how to cook at home."

At Woodland Plaza, Busch's Valu Land is expanding its flagship store into two adjacent spaces, boosting its square footage from 36,000 to 39,500.