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| - This is a pretty authentic "asian market". It is also usually busy as heck, with people wandering the aisles and trying to navigate around you. It will make you feel like a rat in a maze, with your desired food product as your "cheese". The produce is usually seasonal and at rock-bottom prices - when can you get a pound of strawberries for two dollars? The produce that is located outside in bins is a better bet than the sad looking stuff inside - usually fresher than the limp stalks of the stuff inside.
That said, their fish counter is amazing. It's at the back - you won't miss it. You have tanks of live seafood, from clams to fish to lobsters to eels. They also have fish on ice. They also clean/gut and cut your fish - usually for a few extra dollars, but it saves you the thing and the mess in your kitchen. The employees will pull your fish out of the tank, bop it on the head, de-scale it, and gut it, and plop it into a bag for you.
The meat counter next to the fish counter is pretty good. They have cheap meat on sale usually - try their pork chops - they cut them into slices as thick or as thin as you request - if you speak Cantonese or Mandarin! (Come here with a translator or an asian friend...)
The dry goods are kind of hard to find. I ducked in here on Monday April 22 2013, to find some gelatin powder in large amounts. I managed to spot the small packages of unflavoured gelatin before I spotted the larger sized ones - 500 grams for $9.99. The herbs and spices are the hardest to find, but you'd be able to find "exotic" ingredients with a little squinting and blinking. (Take your time in here...)
The staff here are usually busy, and don't have time for that...whatever "that" may be. They want you in and out as fast as possible. They take cash here, and debit - although debit has a minimum of $20 here.
Bottom Line: Take your time, search for your items yourself, don't ask the staff (unless you speak Mandarin Chinese), and enjoy yourself!
* This is the supermarket in the basement of the building. You can't miss it - tons of fruit and veggies outside in bins, and tons of shoppers looking for bargains!
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