Try a more Chinese-focused store, maybe. 88 Marketplace in Pilsen has about a quarter of an aisle dedicated to various packages of wood ears, mostly labeled as such.

One trick that helps to jumpstart browning is to preheat the pan in the oven. (Disclaimer, I don’t mind a few bits that others might consider burnt.) Also for the love of Pete, people, don’t toss your core and leaves! Thinly slice them and toss them with the florets.

Could have sworn that you did this years ago. Turns out, you did something even better, though less marketable! http://www.thepizzle.net/the-chicago-italian-beef-combo-bloody-mary-aka-coach-juice/

You aren't wrong. But here's the thing: if you're not in Wisconsin where else are you even going to find fried curds?

That’s not true north of Roosevelt (and there are intermittent named E-W streets as far south as Marquette).

When I had that problem I solved it by swapping the USB cable.

I normally wouldn’t reply on the internets, but if you read the articles to which Dennis linked, you would see that the establishment in question is indeed named Pecking House (https://www.peckinghouse.com/) which is being run out of a restaurant called Peking House. It’s a pun!

There are also the Soul Vegetarian restaurants run by Black Hebrew Israelites in Chicago and elsewhere. I can’t say whether they’re a cult or not (since sects associated with that name seem to run the gamut from legitimate religion to hate group) but they are at minimum folks with a very particular set of beliefs…

Uh, this 3DS is actually being sold by Amazon, not a third party, which is possibly the real story here. A cursory search did not show any other Nintendo hardware being sold directly by Amazon.