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FOOD: No grocery or meat here, just a few refrigerator cases and deep freezers. Some noodles, soups, and a lot of fish here (sashimi quality, frozen and unsalted), but my favorite find is the black sesame mochi. Tiny section of ready-made buns and sushi rolls, limited variety but would love to find out when they put the dishes out fresh.
GIFTS: Quite a few small gift items, from decorative magnet and eraser sets to some Hello Kitty merchandise and the Asian equivalent of bizarre "as seen on TV" products. Good items to grab to mail to a friend or tuck into a birthday or holiday gift bag.
DRY GOODS/COSMETICS/OTHER: noodles and seasonings, dishes and chopsticks, and tons of foreign hair dyes and magazines, mostly geared toward visitors and recent immigrants who have a particular brand favorite from back home.
There's also a movie rental area, which is unique and cool, though I wasn't clear on how it works. Small wine selection toward the back. Friendly staff.
$10 card minimum lost them a star: I'm not surprised by it but dislike that the info isn't posted anywhere. Inconvenient when all I grab are small, cheap items. Pricing is all over the place: absurdly high on some items, average or normal on others, and suspiciously cheap on a handful, too.
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