Hong Kong Food Market

This place is fantastic. Hundreds of different tofu varieties, snacks from all over Southeast Asia, instant ramen in flavors other than beef; chicken and ~*oriental*~ and an amazing produce selection. Looking for that special ingredient to add to a recipe that you’ve been trying out? That recipe that feels like it’s missing… something that you can’t quite put your finger on, but you know it’s not there? Chances are, you can find it in Hong Kong Food Market, and for a ridiculous bargain.
Service is perfunctory, at best. As with many SE Asian businesses in town, staff is generally trained to do their job quickly, but not encouraged to be pleasant about it, so smiles will be greeted by nonchalance and resting bitchface. Don’t take it personally. The last time I was there, the grocery bagger decided to not only take a cellphone call in the middle of bagging my purchases, but to leave everything on the counter, rather than placing it in the cart. The carts are also rarely ever clean. Take some change with you, because the carts require a loonie.
Be warned: Parking is a bit like Tetris. I saw one lady make about 17 corrections after she backed out of her spot in a straight line and couldn’t accurately gauge the distance, likely because she’s never adjusted her side mirrors in her life. One car was parked horizontally and taking up two and a half spaces while two other cars were effectively blocking it from leaving, so I hope the trio was part of some sort of Caravan For Parking Lot Jerks.

This market has it all. it is very big and I can find many of the items I want from back home here at reasonable prices. I can always park here. Plus they have good prices on many north American products also. I also like that I am supporting a local business.

I went to Hong Kong Food Market yesterday for the first time and found easy parking, a big clean (but a bit messy) supermarket. But the greatest thing of all was that I found HELP! I have just returned from Cambodia where I love the food, and, cookbook in hand, I went to buy some of the ingredients. I had no idea what these vegetables and roots looked like, but after asking several non-​helpful employees who had difficulty with the language I found the owner and he was charming, helpful and interesting. When he did find what I needed he found me the most economical and convenient variety of these (for instance frozen lemon grass, already chopped!) I will certainly return to this store in preference to T&T Supermarket. A great experience!

Hong Kong is pretty big supermarket for SE Asian food and products. Items that cannot be found in other Asian markets like rojak sauce (Malaysian/​Singaporean product), prawn noodle soup base (for making Hokkien noodle soup), an in-​house butcher for your different cuts of meat and exotic parts of the animal like liver, kidney etc and so many different types of vegetables and herbs that sends your head spinning! They carry food items and products for Vietnamese, Thai, Filippino, Chinese, Malaysian, Singaporean and Indonesian.
Truly a gem for Calgary’s Asian community!

I made a mistake of taking a picture of the budhha guarding over the sweet jellies, the manager rappelled from the ceilling and immediately told me to cease and desist, in fear that I was a government operative. I told him my name was «Johnny Luck» (from Lucky’s supermarket, GET IT!?)
Anyways that incident aside, this supermarket really is the place to go. The have the freshest non-​superstore veggies available, you’ll just have to bear with the multi-​lingual signage. Fortunately I have Tagalog and English to back me up when it comes to picking up items. Unfortunately, all of the wisest of Calgary asian population flock here to get their fill so I would suggest picking up your veggies on the day they bring them out from stock which is… HA! I’m crazy but I am no Court Jester!
Their isles are stockpiled with an encyclopedia of asian goodies no superstore «asian» section could handle. I didn’t know it would take half an isle to carry all various kinds of soy sauce, over decade of going to this place and I’m still blown away. For all other mysteries, I suggest just blindfolding yourself and running along the isles grabbing whatnot and going home and googling recipes you can cook with said grabbed items.
Their main butcher shop is independent, so expect to pay for your meats there in cold hard street cash.
The also have the most mysterious section of herbology I have ever seen. A whole section dedicated and every time I’ve gone no one ever seems to go there.
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Hong Kong International Supermarket is a vast grocery store which offers all manner of Asian delights under one roof.
From their extensive Chinese herbs section to their authentic Chinese BBQ department — anything Asian you desire can be found here.
The staff were helpful and friendly. A stockman directed me to some mango gummy candies my lady adores. He was great — the fact that the candy was 2 years beyond expiration — not so much.
That being said, this supermarket seemingly had everything one would need to prepare authentic far-​Eastern cuisine at home. I preferred this market to TnT — I found it more comfortable to shop it, and way less crowded. The only caveat I would add to that is make sure to check the expiration dates on what you’re buying!

This is a huge grocery store off of 17^th Avenue SE dedicated to oriental products and groceries. This is similar to the size of a Safeway, so it is three times the size of Airirang downtown. If you don’t mind going to the SE and don’t want to venture all the way to the T and T then I can assure you will totally get what you are looking for here.
The owner Sen took me down each aisle explaining exactly what he had in his store, he explained that 50% of his products were original Filipino products, then 30% Vietnamese and lastly Chinese.
There was one aisle devoted to just rice. The aisle had HUGE bags of rice at $ 35; with a selection of more than 10 types of rice amongst them being sticky, long grain, aromatic, white, and jasmine.
There was two long aisles about 10 metres long devoted to just frozen food alone, exotic fish and seafood, meat and poultry. Here Balot which is a Filipino duck egg embryo, a delicacy in the Philippines is only $ 1.08 when I have seen it at other locations at $ 1.50. So basically you are getting more affordable pricing at Hong Kong Food Market.
There are sauces, chips, soups, noodles, decorations and smaller kitchen appliances; there is even a butcher area and 5 cashier stalls.
Sen was a very gracious tour guide and explained that he loved serving many of the Asian communities in Calgary; the thing that I liked the most about HKFM besides the enormous selection is the tons of free parking in the front of the store and the very nice staff.