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| - My folks come here pretty often for someone who live about 40 minutes away... crazy right?! Well, welcome to my family, we will climb mountains and cross rivers to get food (and the love of food is the only indication that I belong to the family... sorry Mom & Dad, I am really your child!)
This is by far the cleanest asian (or ethnic) store I've been in in this area. It is bright. The aisles are wide (no squeezing by one another or afraid I would knock something over). And it doesn't stink! As much as I don't care if a place smell a little funky, it's nice to not have to subconsciously hold my breath.
I visited here last week for lunch. My parents have packed enough leftover for me from their hot food section that it's time to try it in person. Not bad... you can get your typical chinese to-go type food. But mostly it's what we consider Taiwanese style... you have choices of 2 meats and rice and I think it's about $7 (think tripes, beef stew, etc). Or you can do the dinner for 2, $18 get you steamed fresh tilapia (and it's actually better than some restaurants in town) and stir-fry chinese greens. $25 get you half chicken as 3rd dish. They also have the buy your fish/lobster at the grocery store and they'll cook for you option. Cooking fee is per pound.
Then there's the bakery section, which is awesome. It reminds me of the Japanese bakery place in the basement of all major department stores when I was little. They had a buy 10 get 1 free special, so Mom, Dad & I went to town. Egg tart (the crust was fabulous, the custard part was a little hard), scallion & hot dog bun, the 3-treasure bun... unfortunately they didn't have our favorite cocktail bun :( Next time. And oh, with $5 purchase during weekday you can get a free coffee.
Needless to say I didn't really do any shopping but mostly eating here. I heard that they don't have as good of a produce area here but you get the basics. But this is a pretty decent joint for ready to eat food. Too bad it's so darn far away for me.
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