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| - This supermarket was built from scratch as an addition to the back of the Flemingdon Park mall about a year ago. It's owned by the same Chinese businessmen who own the Sunny Supermarket in the Chinese mall at Leslie and Finch although this one is much bigger, fresher, cleaner with wider aisles and an better selection.
It's aim is not just at the Chinese shoppers, but the huge muslim and non-Chinese population in the area. It's variety is so good that you'll see people from Leaside and Don Mills making the trip, but it's still mostly the local folks from Flemingdon Park and Thorncliffe Park. It replaces the Food Basics that closed a few years ago in the front of the mall which has been replaced by a large Shopper's Drug Mart.
As you enter on the left side (you have no choice) the fruits and vegetables section is huge, with so much fresh stuff at prices that even put No Frills and Food Basics to shame. There's a smaller selection of tofu type groceries than the Chinese focused markets, but still enough for the average shopper. There's always a few things on sale and everything seems to be fresh enough since the turnover in volume is very high. Do be careful though since we've had some batches of apples or clementines go bad on us quickly. The vegetables do seem to stay fresher than the fruits so if you're buying to keep stuff for a couple of weeks then this may not be the best place, but if you're going to eat it all within the week then go for it.
At the back are two completely separate meat counters. One is halal for the muslims and the other is for everybody else and contains lots of pork products too. In between is the refrigerated meat section. The prices are definitely better than the other grocers in the area. The people behind both meat counters are very fast and efficient and will cut up you purchases to whatever size you request.
Going down the right side is a seafood room with tanks of fresh fish. I pick up lots of salmon fillets there for regular prices that are comparable to Metro's or Loblaw's sale prices. The staff are knowledgeable, but English can sometimes be a problem if you want anything beyond basic information..
Next to it is the bread section with a variety from the buns that Vietnamese sandwiches are made from to naans and other south asian type breads. There's also lots of the cookies and cakes you'd find at a T&T or other Chinese grocer and freezers filled with ice creams and desserts.
Then next to that is the hot food counter including a Chinese butcher where you can get AMAZING ROAST PORK, as well as BBQ pork, roast duck etc... The food counter has spring rolls, egg tarts, noodle dishes, etc.. and you go to the end of the counter to pay for anything you buy at the butcher/food counter.
Bringing you groceries through the check out is the same ordeal that it is in every Chinese supermarket, with fast and unfriendly cashiers. Just bring you own bags and pack your stuff away as quickly as possible. The faster and often shorter lines are for those that are CASH ONLY so keep that in mind when shopping there.
The parking for Sunny goes down along both sides of the mall and in the back, but you can park anywhere in the mall if the areas near Sunny are too jammed. It's certainly brought a lot of life back to what was a dying shopping mall and it is much nicer than the original Sunny up in North York.
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