Hong Kong Market

Hong Kong Market is a convenient stop for all the Asian grocery staples. While it’s not where I can get all of my grocery shopping done, I’m thankful to have it within walking distance of where I work and next door to where I’ve been getting my hair cut. Prices are a little higher than other Asian markets for prepackaged items, but there are some good deals on meats and produce. On my most recent visit, I was able to find all the fresh ingredients for a soup I was craving on a chilly Sunday. While here, I also made sure to stock up on those items I use a lot, like limes, cilantro, and ginger. I noticed a few people grabbing shrimp, which you can pick yourself from boxes of ice at decent prices per pound. I made a mental note to come here the next time I need shrimp.
Note: There is a $ 20 minimum for credit cards and $ 10 minimum for debit. Also parking may be a little tricky on the street, but the lot on the corner appears to be unattended on Sundays.
1÷19÷16 Update: I’m told there’s parking behind the store.

This store is small and quaint but surprisingly well stocked. I come here once in awhile with my friend, our class is only a 5 minute walk from the store. The prices are expected, not too expensive but more than average food from america. They have a really good selection of drinks, snacks, teas, and frozen goods.

I was a regular customer of the main Hong Kong Market in NYC when I lived there, and it’s nice to have a satellite store in New Haven. It’s a fifth the size, but carries most basics. The fresh produce section downstairs could be larger, but I’ve never had a problem with quality or freshness. Prices are very fair, and the fresh tofu is cheap! Really, three bricks for a dollar? Can’t be beat. The household section is pretty poor, however, and missing some of the most basic items. I went there looking for chopsticks and one of those bamboo spider strainers with no luck, but there were lots of obscure soaps and cheap plastic gadgets that look like they’ve been there since Desert Storm. No one shops for a cheap saucepan here; they’ll go to Ikea. So clear out those shelves and put in some useful stuff! But all in all, I like shopping here. For a small space, they manage to fit in a large variety of goods. As a bonus, they accept SNAP/​EBT.

This place carries a decent amount of all of my Asian meal needs. I was able to get a fresh cat fish and red snapper. The fishes were both delicious and I was even able to buy a few more things for dinner. I live in New London and there isn’t any Asian markets here worth going to.

Chinatown comes to New Haven… OK it’s not the City but this is the best we have got and it’s pretty darn good. Be grateful.

DUMPLNGS. That is all. This place is our go-​to dumpling spot. They have A GREAT selection of frozen goods. A large drink selection (although I didn’t see any Mr Brown coffee last time I was here). And best yet…
… A HUGE snack food collection! Wasabi seaweed crunches? Yes, please. Dried squid? They got that. Lychee juice for cocktails… Check.
Really a fun, awesome store. If you’re going to plan an asian — style dinner, there no better place to go.

Convenient Oriental Market in the area. We’re here on a regular basis. Basically, huge nice selection of just about anything you would hope from an Asian Market. We highly recommend the Hong Kong Market!
Credit Card: $ 20 minimum

By far the worst customer service of any restaurant to date.

Great Asian market in the area that’s actually organized, clean, and has their shelves well-​stocked with Asian cuisine ingredients.

Just a quick stop to pick up some rice for Thai Sticky Rice & mango. Don’t let the small size of this market fool you, they have just about everything you would ever need to make any type of Asian dish.
The staff is very friendly & helpful too!

This is probably the biggest and cheapest asian grocery store in New Haven. Love coming here to get chinese food next door. While waiting I usually do my grocery shopping here. Dont forget the downstairs section of the store, because its easy to miss.

We were driving to Martha Vineyard and realize that we need to buy a few Asian Ingredients before getting there. We Unilocal this place out and stop by after lunch. The place was small but they have everything you would need to cook asian food. We walked around and got everything that we can think of but the only major disappointment was the price. It was crazy high but we had no choice. Would I go here again? Proably not because I can go asian supermarket shopping in Boston for alot less.

A grocery store with fairly large selection at reasonable prices. If you’re looking for mainly Chinese food, seafood, or meat, you’re set. It took going to DC and seeing their horrible selection of easily accessible Asian grocery stores to make me fully appreciate this one.

Well. it is the biggest asian market around New Haven. They do have a lot of items and mostly from China, but also from korea, vietnam, Thai, and very few from Japan.
The whole store looks very typical asian market. Not that clean and not that in order, but it has a lot of items. Seafood, meat, vegetable, sauces, noodle (includes instant), snacks and a little bit of medication and cigarette.

Prices are a bit steep, but are very good in general considering where it is and the fact that it’s a college town. I’ve seen better, but I’m from Atlanta, home of giant asian supermarkets lol. But, I particularly like the snack aisle :)
I believe there’s a minimum 5 $ purchase for cards…

When I was young, my grandma would truck me off to a Chinese market in Sacramento, CA which was about an hour away from our home. Ever since then it has always been a great pleasure to find conveniently located Asian markets, because they carry things you just cannot find anywhere else: plum sauce, dried mushrooms, whole bamboo shoots, Chinese tea, Chinese greens, salted black beans … the list goes on.
Hong Kong Market lives up to about half of the expectations that I have for Chinese markets. They have just about every prepackaged items one might need for Asian cooking along with a decent selection of veggies, but they are lacking some fresh products. They do not provide fresh noodles, cooked meat products (such as char su, roasted pork, or duck), or live fish. Nonetheless, considering where it is located, I am still satisfied.

This is one of the only places in New Haven to get Asian groceries and since their recent renovation, the market is SO much nicer than it used to be. To put things in perspective, it used to be a one-​floor, smallish market that was rather dingy and dusty. Now it’s much bigger and well-​lit and, more importantly, the produce looks a lot fresher.
HK market carries lots of essential supplies for Chinese cooking, from numbing spice to a variety of oyster sauces. They also have a decent selection of frozen dumplings and snacks.
The restaurant next door has also been significantly renovated and serves dim sum and surprisingly authentic dishes.

Your typical Asian grocery store. I am vegetarian, so I don’t buy the fish so i can’t speak to that. Their bulk tofu is cheap and fabulous. Their selection of noodles is great & cheap. I love the frozen section of dim sum. Green ice tea ice cream = YUM. They have a good selection of curry pastes & spices. The dessert selection I’m not sure about b/​c I’m not much of an expert on Chinese/​Asian desserts.
Downstairs they have cheap housewares stuff (like most Asian markets!), and I actually bought tons of stuff b/​c it was cheaper than Target (haha).
I have to disagree with the other poster who was saying it was a negative thing that they stock so many products — I can find everything I want at this store. How is that a negative? This store has more product than any store I went to in SF, and I consider it a bonus. I spent almost $ 100 the first time I went there.
Gotta love your Asian market.
The people are lovely too. :D

Not bad, but could be better. They’ve recently undergone a renovation & move and now the produce/​fish are in the basement, while dry/​frozen foods/​fruit are upstairs. This seems to have improved quality and accessibility quite a bit. I realize there are two other 2-​star ratings, so I’ll explain my 3-​star rating.
— One of the only places in NH to get Chinese groceries, and they’ve pretty much stocked everything that I’ve used to cook. I agree with Alex that the quality can be much improved, but for its variety of stock, I give it one star. I think they’ve been able to offer an increased variety with more shelf space, also.
— I’ve had mixed experiences with the fruits, but I know the veggies downstairs are nice and fresh. I’ve been able to buy all the Chinese vegetables I’d find somewhere like Chinatown in NYC, but I do acknowledge that prices are often $ 0.25−0.50 higher. Transportation cost? One star for fresh vegetables. They definitely stock cilantro, Thai basil, all sorts of sprouts…
— One star specifically for good selection of frozen foods. I’ve enjoyed all sorts of dumplings and desserts of excellent quality and recognized brands.
I do recognize that there is a ton of room for improvement, especially in customer service– I love purchasing groceries here, but I feel like service is exceptionally rude for no good reason.

This isn’t the only place in town to buy Chinese groceries: the fish market on the corner of State and Humphrey also sells them – but its selection is much smaller. There is also a very small shop on Orange street, north of Trumbull, which is more selective about what it stocks. This place does have the largest selection that I have been able to find, but it is not my favorite place to shop.
As is common in Asian markets, my biggest complaint about this store is that it does not seem particularly selective about what it stocks. Packaged foods imported from Asian countries tend to be incredibly cheap, but the quality is highly variable and it is not uncommon to get stuff that it outright awful if you just pick random things off the shelf. I think this store would do a lot better if the managers would carefully select only one or two high-​quality brands from each of the products offered, and stock only these best brands. That would give me the confidence to buy more things here that I haven’t tried.
Also, this store just doesn’t stock a lot of the stuff that I know I like; there are certain brands of tea, soy sauce, and chili sauce that I have decided are my favorites, and they’re nowhere to be found in this store. Overall, the tea selection here is poor; they stock mostly low-​end boxes of teabags.
The produce selection here is alright but the prices aren’t very cheap. I live next to the fish market on State, which has a similar selection of produce and so I usually just shop there. There’s a lot of produce you can’t find here… no watercress, and no Asian basil, no recao/​culantro, three serious omissions – I’d keep coming back for these products if they would stock them.
I don’t think this shop would survive in a typical big city’s Chinatown. The managers need to get on the quality control and critically examine what products they are stocking. Their prices are so low and their competitors in the neighborhood have such high-​prices; they would do well to stock higher-​end merchandise.