I don’t remember where you are, but you do occasionally run across things like that in NYC’s Chinatown(s), at “normal” prices. It’s been a few years since I 've just roamed around NYC/Manhattan’s Chinatown browsing the small grocery stores (and the number of non-Chinese stores has dwindled over the years), but there at least used to be an (I think) Indonesian-owned store on Mulberry St (on the west side of the street, a few store-fronts north of Bayard), that had a lot of Malaysian as well as Indonesian imports like this. I don’t have a specific recollection of seeing the name Alagappa in particular, but I do remember seeing various “Baba” products… The Vietnamese grocery store Tan Tin Hung (on the Bowery just south of Grand St) also carries (or used to carry) a number of Malaysian and Indonesian dry products like these, too, as well as some jarred seasonings/condiments/etc.
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