Pittsburgh has not one, not two... but THREE Chinese grocers. HaHA!
AND... This one has a private parking lot! It's small (maybe 10-15 cars at the most?)... but it's better than nothing. Yay!
Lotus is obviously the "giant" (kinda sad...) and they sometimes take advantage of their monopoly in this niche market. The other one (Yong Fa) is cramped, and from what I remember a bit dark and dirty, too... we don't really go there. Many More is a nice balance. It's clean-ish. Bright. Young and pretty friendly people working here vs sometimes grumpy Lotus employees. The name really puzzles me though...
So far they really look like they're just starting out. They don't have as much variety, and I think they definitely need to make better use of their space. It's not huge, but it's a decent size, and they are not stuffing enough stuff/variety in those shelves! Small produce section, too, unfortunately. Inferior homemade tofu compared to Lotus.
But give this place a chance! I have no idea how much stuff cost around here but my mom was pointing out certain stuff that are cheaper here than Lotus... IF they have it. We did have to go to Lotus for some things they just flat out didn't have.
My hope is that they begin to stock more varied and diverse products here in the future. A little healthy competition would be great.
Very promising. Needs a lot of work. But that will come in time from a bit of support from the community, I'm sure.
I do want this place to succeed... but I still secretly want the Pgh area to have a 99 Ranch/H-mart-sized store... A girl can dream :/