Ooh, that sounds wonderful. (In Seoul, at least, they sell peeled/cooked chestnuts similarly as street food.) Nope, the local J groceries have raw CA-grown chestnuts--at least the shorter trip means they aren't moldy--and the nearest K grocery has half-moldy raw Korean chestnuts. Or perhaps I'm going during the wrong week(s). I bet the bigger K/J groceries several dozen miles to the south have them, but....