Pacific Ocean Marketplace

Pretty cool spot to come and get different groceries from different countries the prices are high but I guess it’s because everything must be imported

This place is HUGE! LOTS and LOTS of asian goods here. You will most likely find whatever it is you need here. There’s also a bakery, massage clinic, and clothing shop. You can get roasted duck and pork! YUM! There are lots of fresh asian veggies and fruits. Basically there’s everything. Ricecookers, water filters, household items, mahjong sets, snacks, and etc. There’s too much to say about it lol.
The employees here are very nice and helpful and they’re everywhere so it’s easy to find help when you need it. The store is actually really clean which is a plus!
Tip: $ 5 minimum for credit card.
Pros: Probably has everything you need. Friendly and helpful employees. Easy to find location with lots of parking.
Cons: Obviously there will be some things you can’t find here.
Overall: Great place to get your asian goods and to look at all the stuff they have there. I will continue to shop here and recommend it to anyone.

If I could give POM 6 stars I would! Where to begin… Well after looking at the Unilocal page for Pacific Ocean Marketplace I was super excited to go check it out! After reading such fabulous reviews online, I couldn’t wait to visit in person to see if it lived up to all of the hype (spoiler: it totally did!) I spent over an hour wandering around and looking at all of the amazing ingredients! It took some serious self control not to buy three carts worth of goodies! I was so impressed with their fresh food and sushi selection! The sushi is made all day, and customized orders can be called in or made while you wait. Their bakery was great and the coconut bread that I brought home is amazing toasted! As I made my way to the produce section, I was super impressed with the variety of products available! They have an entire aisle dedicated to every kind of fresh noodle imaginable! The seafood section was equally impressive and they even have tanks with live tilapia, crab, lobster, etc. that can be prepared to your liking or cut into fillets to take home. I had a blast looking at all of the packaged goodies, and even found a special hard candy that I haven’t been able to find in any other store! Their prices were good and the staff were all super friendly and helpful. Not to mention how immaculate the store was! I have been raving about POM ever since my visit, and definitely plan on incorporating it into my regular grocery shopping routine!

This store is huge! A ton of great Asian produce. Best of all is their International section that offer a ton of Japanese and Korean items. Very organized and a variety of items to make any Asian dish you desire.

Love this place! After moving here from Dallas where I could go to a bunch of different Vietnamese areas to get my stuff, this is a great one stop shop! They have a little bakery in there with bubble tea, a to-​go food area, a bunch of baked goods AND household items! They have all the essentials here which is awesome and most things are easy to find. If not, there are employees EVERYWHERE that can help you!
Produce is usually filled and has A LOT of options. There are also a million aisles and many that are broken down by countries which is pretty neat. They also have a huge international section as well. You can get all these Asian home goods that are hard to find anywhere else! I will be adding pictures next time I go since I’m here all the time anyway!
The only thing about this place is that they seem to run out of stuff or change their inventory a lot. I’ll find something new I like and then I go back and it’s not there. Not sure if it’s because it’s newer or what. They also don’t carry mochi for froyo here so I have to go elsewhere to find that! Other than that, this place is much better for me and my boyfriend than H-​Mart since I’m Vietnamese and he’s Taiwanese. Better selection on stuff that we look for!

This place is like an Asian food shopping mall — You can find anything you could possibly need or want for putting together a tasty Asian dish. My only complaint would be that the place is so big that it can be overwhelming and difficult to locate what you’re looking for, and there aren’t terribly many employees to ask for help that speak English. Thankfully we had the time to wander around searching for each of our ingredients — and we did for a good hour or more. This would have been frustrating if we had a time constraint, but instead it helped us learn the store and stumble upon and buy food items we might have never purchased otherwise. Their meat and seafood selection is very cheaply priced, and they have a wide variety of fish choices — many that we’ve never seen available or heard of before. However, if you value knowing how humanely your meat and seafood was treated, as we do, you won’t find any ‘cage free,’ ‘organic,’ or ‘free range’ type designations here. Check out their prepared sushi selection for a quick bite to eat. Cheap specialty rolls? Sold.

This place has definitely gotten way better since they first opened! More staff, yay! Also, a lot more veggie selections and other awesome Asian stuff for your home!

I get all my Chinese ingredients and snacks here. They have a wide selection of ice bars to choose from. Even though my family has moved further away, we still make it a point to shop here.

Love this place, they have everything you need to cook any Asian delicacy. This store has items from Korea, China and Japan, which alway look and taste fresh

This store is amazing! There are so many varieties of produce – I didn’t even recognize (let alone know how to pronounce) some of them. There are dozens of aisles – I couldn’t even get through all of them (luckily they have a restaurant, deli, and bakery there if you decide to stay the whole day to get your shopping done). If you’re looking for hard-​to-​find ethnic foods, they’ll probably have them here. They have so many goodies that I’m tempted to try making phở from scratch!

Went here yesterday for the first time, I’m never going back to the POM Denver location again! It’s HUGE, clean, better area, and they have a bigger International Market store too (where you can buy household bowls, steamers etc).
I’m Dutch-​Indonesian, so I have to go to Vietnamese Markets for my ingredients. At the Denver POM you can never find anything… I found my list here in 30 mins, and the Indo aisle was totally full with product! They had the Nasi Kuning (yellow rice) paste I usually have to buy through my parents in L.A., Rendang & Opor seasoning packets are hard to find; I bought 15! Agar Agar was right there, Stroop, Gado-​Gado packets, I can’t believe I found all of it!
Btw — I noticed so many more nationalities of foods and people here! One of the young employees also helped me find CoCo Rico without me feeling like I was on my own. The Denver store, good luck getting help there… the employees never know where anything is or don’t feel like speaking just minor English. :-\
AND on my way out I bought some food to go at the deli. Not great or fancy food, but it was rice & meat, enough for me. :)

This store is definitely cleaner and more organized than H Mart for sure. Coming from LA where there’s an abundance of Chinese supermarkets, I wasn’t quite impressed with the product selection and prices at POM. In addition, make sure to check the expiration date since some of the products I found have passed the expiration date!
The hot food station, deli and bakery section have a good selection of ready-​to-​eat food and snacks. I really liked their freshly baked red bean and taro buns! They also have some delicious sweet desserts! There’s a dessert cart that makes those fish shaped pastries with sweet cream filling!
The produce section is rather depressing with very limited options for vegetables and not to mention the prices are not as cheap as Sprouts. However, there is a pickled veggie section that is neat where you can buy a variety of pickled veggies by weight.
Some of their refrigerated noodles have already expired but they’re still selling them! That’s the case for some of the hot cereals (sesame and black rice)! I have never seen this at other Asian markets before.
The frozen section is not bad with plenty of frozen dumplings, goyza, savory pancakes, and buns. The prices are a bit high compared to other stores.
They have a new international market off to the side pass the rice section. They have cookware, utensils, more Korean and Japanese food as well as houseware.
Overall, POM offers a decent selection of Asian food and products in a clean and organized store. However, the prices and product quality fall short of my expectations.

This specific location of Pacific Ocean Marketplace is the best I’ve been to so far!
Large, clean, organized with such a good variety that I even had to go back to my other Pacific Ocean reviews and adjust them to this standard. They have everything that all the others stores have AND MORE.
Will definitely come back to grab a quick lunch or buy some roasted meat to bring home for dinner.

Wanted to check this place out since I always have gone to H-​Mart. Wasn’t at all impressed with the entrance – entry and parking lot was full of trash and a funny smell as soon as I walked in to the store.
It is very organized, was clean and prices were pretty reasonable. Lots of employees but only two cashier’s were open when I checked out.
Plenty of parking. Will have to go back again to see if I get a different vibe because right now I like the H-​Mart better.

This market totally fascinates me! I wish they did a guided tour for those of us «foodies» that don’t know exactly what we are looking at! I would even be willing to pay for it to learn some new stuff! What a great place to learn about Asian food!

HUGE asian market.
I came here an wasn’t planning on spending as much time as I did but they have LOTS and LOTS to look at. I still prefer H Mart for certain items, but the Pacific Ocean Market has to many different items.
Take a look at the annex side to the left past the rice and bulk items. They have lots of great dishes and tools to use for asian cooking.

I love this place and I am super happy that it finally opened. While h mart was great to have in aurora, POM is more suited for me because they offer more Chinese products. There’s a larger selection than at the one on federal. It’s so great to have one close by home and I know I don’t need to drive all the way down to federal anymore.
Oh and the little food section when you first enter the doors is delicious. Everyone should take a look there first. And to take a walk towards the other end of the store near the rice cookers for sushi. The sushi is surprisingly good :)

Hurrah for another Asian market! This 1’s the best so far because 1. it’s closer to me & 2. it’s massive & offers Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese & Middle Eastern foods. The variety of cultural foods they offer is plenty more than most Asian markets I have been to. They also have several stores in the front of the market (but within it). These stores include 2 clothing store, a bakery with pastries & boba & a massage place that advertises a 40 minute massage for $ 10. That sounds like an unbeatable price.
Some of my finds:
1. delicious chinese pineapple bun (frozen section) — in San Jose these are sold fresh but once they’re heated up/​toasted you can barely tell the difference
2. Lychee sorbet
3. tamarind candy
4. pad thai sauce
5. fresh prepared sushi
6. Vietnamese bo bia (a type of spring roll dish)
7. durian
8. taro powder that I was able to use for taro cupcakes
9. Moon cake for around $ 30
I don’t even get how people can’t give it 5 stars-​what was missing?! My only slight complaint is that mussels here cost a lot more than what I am used to. I think this might be region specific however so I wont hold that against POM! I always end up buying more than I intended here. They have a great selection of house ware supplies like bowls, plates, brooms, pots & pans as well.
The exterior of this great is awesomely decorated with the pagoda architecture and Chinese lanterns. It’s quite festive/​fun. They have a small section in the vegetable area right now for your Chinese New Years needs (orchids, dried fruits & red letters).
The negatives: I came once and they had a small selection of rice cookers, all the bell peppers were wrinkly & soft, canola oil was way more expensive than in an American market, they don’t sell sandwich bread, they only carry one brand of young coconut (most Asian markets have 3 or more), box of taro cakes sold here for $ 30 when they’re half the price & twice as fresh @ bakeries, straws here cost more than most place (cheaper at IKEA & dollar store & are better quality) and cilantro was scant.

This place is huge!
A lot more offerings than their sister store on Alameda, but I did notice slightly higher prices. This locale also boasts a coffee shop called New York Bakery, a Korean underwear store called Korean Underwear, and a fashion accessory store called Fashion Accessory. Not much for creative store names going on here.
When you first walk in, you may hear something that sounds like a gunshot. Don’t be alarmed. It’s just a strange food cart that shoots out bread discs. As with all Asian markets, there’s some interesting smells throughout the store, but it comes with the territory. We Asians eat some interesting things.
The store is kept very clean, so no worries there. Also, lots of parking available. It’ll be great once that Korean BBQ restaurant opens up.

Saturday November 22^nd 2014
FINALLY ITS OPENED after several months of delay… YES the THIRD Pacific Ocean Marketplace on Colorado Soil.
YES, its HUGE. YES its CLEAN coz its brand new and all…
YES it has many more items to purchase for ALL my Asian Grocery needs and some other ethnic cuisine that I might not be familiar off such as…
* DESI/​INDIAN items CHECK
* European items or food products CHECK
* Middle Eastern food products CHECK
On The Right Wing, is where you can find the mini bakery aka Hong Kong Style Buns, and mini pre-​made food right after you enter this establishment. Extreme Right of the POM is the Produce Aisle aka Produce Department!
At the Far Back, is where you can find LIVE SEAFOOD and Frozen Seafood Galore and Frozen/​Refrigerated Aisle items to name a few. Then on its «extended» LEFT Wing of this establishment are aisle of Foreign products such from India, Filipino, Middle Eastern and European countries to explore…
YOWZA Indeed! It can be OVERWHELMING to some! Hence do take your time to explore on what this POM Aurora has to offer. DEFINITELY this Pacific Ocean Marketplace is giving the run for the money to HMART Aurora and other Mom and Pop grocer, several miles away…
THANK GOD, this Pacific Ocean Marketplace is «closer» to the hood rather than I have to drive all across town aka Lakewood… But just take note, some prices are higher, and comparable to HMART Aurora. Oh well. When there is a demand, definitely prices are competitive…
ALL in ALL, this POM Aurora has many more potential for our bi-​weekly grocery runs coz so many items to «explore» so little time. Definitely need more time just to go thru all the aisle of aisle of products!
Please POM Aurora, maintain your cleanliness. That evening the staff who handled our transaction her name is Kamali. Time was about 19:45hrs ish.
Register: # 7
Pacific Ocean Marketplace
12 303 E Mississippi Ave, #135
Aurora, CO 80 013
Tel: (720)-858−8818
Fax: (303)-360−8828
@226/2014