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| - Mekong Supermarket is one of my go-to places for groceries. Being half Japanese and raised on Asian food, I am so happy I found this place. It's in Mekong Plaza and is the anchor store within the shopping center. It has excellent seafood and produce, as well as groceries from all around Asia. It also carries some Hispanic foods.
The majority of the people who come here are foreigners--foreigners who know how to cook. The seafood section is like the United Nations of Seafood as there are people and seafood from all over, ordering and waiting for their filleted fish, shrimp, squid, octopus, crabs, and other goodies, some of it live and swimming around in the aquariums behind the fishmongers.
As for me, I usually buy FRESH, WILD salmon-big portions of it that I take home and cut into individual portions. It usually costs $7.99 a pound, which is generally $2-5 less per pound than the mainstream supermarkets. I also buy a lot of wild mackerel, a delicious, oily(think Omega-3), underrated fish that is very popular in Asia and also very cheap at not more than $3.00 a pound..
For me, the seafood section is enough reason to come here, but as an added bonus the produce section has a copious amount of Asian delights, like jackfruit, lychees, longans, gailan, bok choi, Japanese sweet potatoes, Thai basil, lemongrass, and tons of other items. The store also has rows upon rows of canned, jarred and packaged foods from sesame oil, chili paste, Asian fish cakes, spice packets, noodles upon noodles, rice---it's endless. The one thing this store does not have is store-made food, fairly common in most Asian markets, but no worries--you can make your own yummies from all the goodies here.
Come here for the first time when you have the time and energy to slowly walk around, read the labels, discover new products, smell the perfumed fruits, gaze at the shiny, fresh fish, and plan your menu. Savor it all slowly and imbibe the goodness of fresh, quality ingredients.
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