My husband shops at this place sometimes but the little local store we really go to this strip for is Maruichi, the Japanese grocery. It's the only real Japanese specialty grocer I know of in the area. And yeah you can get a lot of Japanese stuff at HMart and the other big Korean groceries, but this place has things they don't have and also that same nice vibe of being run by real people.
We have a Maruichi near us too and it’s my favorite store nearby. We’re in it almost weekly. My daughter loves the onigiri and seaweed they sell, and I often get sashimi grade tuna, salmon and scallops.
That store is nice too, but likewise I don’t really know what most of the stuff is. But I can tell it’s stuff you can’t find widely and I like browsing it too
We have a similar store about 25 minutes from our place and it’s run by Polish people The key is that most of the food is from Poland or nearby like Slovakia.
I love the British bakery and import store in a very old strip mall close to my home. The 3rd generation is now running it while maintaining all the quirks from the old country. That mall somehow survives while everything around it has been torn down and rebuilt. I hope it survives for many years to come. Another place I love is a Japanese supermarket in the industrial district. It is tiny but selections and prices are excellent, especially the bentos during lunch hours. Happy to see the original owners’ adult son just took over management.
The British have an unfair reputation for having bland food. But good to a store or something run by someone from England and you’ll find out that they also have some excellent food
Their food is excellent - I love their sweet and savory pies, pasties of all sorts and Victoria sponge. The Cadbury they sell is also the real thing, not the ones licensed by Hershey.
Oh yeah, I know that store too, popped in there a couple times. I'm kind of curious why/how it got built that way at all. It seems like the further back you go, the less standard these things are. I'm glad it's still there!
My husband shops at this place sometimes but the little local store we really go to this strip for is Maruichi, the Japanese grocery. It's the only real Japanese specialty grocer I know of in the area. And yeah you can get a lot of Japanese stuff at HMart and the other big Korean groceries, but this place has things they don't have and also that same nice vibe of being run by real people.
We have a Maruichi near us too and it’s my favorite store nearby. We’re in it almost weekly. My daughter loves the onigiri and seaweed they sell, and I often get sashimi grade tuna, salmon and scallops.
That store is nice too, but likewise I don’t really know what most of the stuff is. But I can tell it’s stuff you can’t find widely and I like browsing it too
We have a similar store about 25 minutes from our place and it’s run by Polish people The key is that most of the food is from Poland or nearby like Slovakia.
I love the British bakery and import store in a very old strip mall close to my home. The 3rd generation is now running it while maintaining all the quirks from the old country. That mall somehow survives while everything around it has been torn down and rebuilt. I hope it survives for many years to come. Another place I love is a Japanese supermarket in the industrial district. It is tiny but selections and prices are excellent, especially the bentos during lunch hours. Happy to see the original owners’ adult son just took over management.
The British have an unfair reputation for having bland food. But good to a store or something run by someone from England and you’ll find out that they also have some excellent food
Their food is excellent - I love their sweet and savory pies, pasties of all sorts and Victoria sponge. The Cadbury they sell is also the real thing, not the ones licensed by Hershey.
There's a little Japanese store next door!
Smaller retail spaces at a higher density -- because this site has two "ground floors" -- mean lower rents and therefore quirkier businesses.
Oh yeah, I know that store too, popped in there a couple times. I'm kind of curious why/how it got built that way at all. It seems like the further back you go, the less standard these things are. I'm glad it's still there!
I'm glad to know they're still there. I haven't been out to that shop in ages.