P K Oriental Mart

After we had our lunch next door, we came by and see if we can pick up anything. I’ve never been to this place before so I was kind of curious to see what kind of Chinese products they have and for how much.
It’s a pretty big place with many isles. Products were nicely displayed in pretty orderly fashion. But when we took a closer look at their prices, we find most items we buy we can get it about 15 $-20% cheaper at other places.
I thought I’d still buy something only because I was too lazy to make another trip to another store. We went to the frozen section looking for some dumplings but couldn’t find any. This is kind of odd because almost all Asian grocery stores sells then. Then we walked further down to the open refrigerator… there they were! Wow! Those dumplings are supposed to kept frozen! Sure enough, I picked up one dumpling and immediately felt it was soft and mushy. Well, that can’t be good. I even put my hands in the refrigerator and the temperature was not even that cold.
We ended up just getting a few Chinese vegetables and went on our way. But I’d probably stay away from products in their frozen section if I were to come back.

The nice lady assisted me since I do not read Chinese. Beautiful clean market, I was able to get the items I needed with her help and I would definitely come back… This is really a big market, if you need ingredients I would say come here first.

What a fun place to go when searching for Asian cooking ingredients. We have been so limited in places to find these when trying to make oriental recipes. This market is tucked away in a little strip on University. I had noticed the sign once, but thought it looked like a small place. I wasn’t paying close attention. I was amazed at the size when we went in. There was a huge array, of fresh, frozen and preserved ingredients as well as cooking utensils. The only thing I wish was that they had the signs written in English so it would have been easier to navigate the many aisles of choices.