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| - The VERY quick run down for those just realizing a special recipe you're about to cook for your date calls for a foreign ingredient:
If it's a paste, or thick sauce, to go 99 Ranch down the street. Anything else, go to SF. However, this is not really an "Asian" supermarket--more like Chinese with dabs of other Asian cultures, and 99 Ranch has a bit more variety in terms of cultural spread.
The produce prices tend to be better than 99 Ranch and the selection on vegetables is great. Fruit is well priced but a small variety-jack fruit, spiny fruit, oranges, dragon fruit, etc. Rarely I see apples but only one kind, and not blueberries, etc.
Meat prices are market standard, but a WHOLE different array of parts. Literally. I now have pig brain in my freezer because it looked interesting, and my boyfriend and I try one totally weird thing every time we go. This one may take the cake.
Seafood is very well prices, esp. live. Oysters are about $0.99 each, for instance. They do let you choose which crabs you take--some look a bit worse for wear. The fish in the ice is mostly very fresh, a few exceptions, and varies week to week. You choose which way you want it--whole, filet, steaks, etc. They weigh it, charge you for the whole fish, then behead it, clean it, etc. It still works out cheaper than the grocery store, FYI.
Not a wide array of curries except Thai (for Indian go to New India Market on Decatur), some Malaysian food, Indonesian, and of course some Japanese and some Korean. This is mostly a Chinese store, not an "Asian" store, again, so you can find everything Chinese and most things for other "Asian" recipes, but it will require looking. Forget asking for help.
Alcohol section for sake, and Chinese plum wines, is pretty good! Standard pricing. Lees sometimes is cheaper if you catch it on sale. Beer is better priced here but not cold and I don't know how long it has been on the shelf. Some beer, though IS cold in the fridge section on the right.
The prices are great, the variety is great, but the con:
Customer service is horrid. It's not only a language gap, but just an attitude gap. I have NEVER been regarded poorly b/c I'm not Asian in there, but when the woman at the register rang up my sweet potatoes as the twice as expensive garnet yams then refused to admit it was wrong until I brought her a garnet yam and showed her the difference-then she had to get a manager to see-I was never issued an apology or even an "oops."
I'd take off a star for that but considering they had lemongrass, panang curry ingredients, and the cheapest anise ever, I was good to go.
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