El Monte Seafood Mkt

On a quest for fresh mussels, the husband and I bumped into this place on our way home from Shun Fat market. Bare in mind that it’s a teeny tiny store. All of the seafood was in the back of the room and covered with ice. I didn’t really see anything live. We asked one of the guys at the counter if they had mussels and he showed us a plastic zip lock bag with a box of mussels. Eh.
If I wasn’t in a hurry to find these gosh darn mussels, I probably would have ordered some fried fish! Will have to see if we make it back to this part of town…

I like this place good seafood always fresh. Staff nice not expensive. They have all kinds of korean items that u wont find in regualr store. I lije getting the baby octupus and frieing is free

Support your local mom and pops! This is a great little market to get some good seafood. You pick whatever seafood you want, hand it to the guys over the counter and they will happily clean and/​or fry it for you. One of my favorites is the fried tilapia. They even add diced onions and cilantro for garnish and season it with some seasoned salt! Everything seems moderately priced considering it’s seafood. This market also sells other basic items such as milk, eggs, and vegetables.

TAKE PEPPER SPRAY WHEN ENTERING!
Anyhoo, If you could get over the scummy dudes standing outside asking if you need fake social security cards, go right in!
This market is really really really a hole in the wall. Everything looks wrong in this place. It needs new paint, new floors, smells bad, looks bad but I haven’t got sick yet so I’ll keep on going back!
Here’s why I love this place. You go in, pick out what fish you want, give it to the dude behind the counter, he weights it, gives you a receipt, you go pay, in the mean time the dude is frying up your fish.
It come out SOOO good! They season it up with god knows what (and i don’t care) and throw some onion-​cilantro stuff on it! It turns out beautifully! I always get the baby octopus, fried and talapia.
Is the fish fresh? Who know! Who cares. My taste buds know what they like, and they like this place!