Asian Foods Express

My boyfriend and I walked in here looking for some rice noodles and seitan the other day. The staff was extremely helpful. They weren’t really sure what seitan was, but they showed us every variety of tofu they had. I’d definitely come back here for Asian ingredients in the future.

I love this place too. It’s really an asian restaurant supply store, so when you walk in exp It’s pretty weird — you walk in expect a weird scene of a bunch of guys with big boxes and bags of wholesale ingredients, packaging and weighing stuff. It’s not a store where you browse for things.
Ask them for what you want and they’ll get it for you.
I like to cook a Thai food, and Thai food is all about the ingredients. You can get a huge bushel of Thai holy basil and a big bag of Kaffir lime leaves here for a few bucks. Lemongrass, spices, etc.
I’m pretty sure they get everything in Chinatown bulk, so it’s the same quality as you’d get there, for better or worse.
There’s nowhere else in williamsburg to get these kinds of specialty asian ingredients, and there’s obviously better places in Chinatown, Flushing, etc., but for the neighborhood its sweet.

I have to concur with Melissa d., I love this place, I used to trek to Chinatown to buy Asian veggies and staples, but now I just head to this place to pick fresh bak choy, fresh ginger, papayas, mangos, and oranges. I also buy the coconut milk. The staff is really nice. Just go in and give them an idea of what you would like, and they’ll bring out really fresh fruits, and veggies for you to buy. They sell wholesale to restaurants, so turn-​over of inventory is probably faster than your average market, thus you get to buy the very fresh for a great price.

This place is a hidden gem. It is wholesale Asian food seller that also sells to the public at wholesale prices. It is easy to miss, because the shop does not look like it is open to the public. Inside, there are a few shelves with Asian staples and condiments and stacks of boxes and crates everywhere. But the best stuff is not on view – you have to ask for it. They sell hard to find ingredients like stalks of lemon grass and kefir lime leaves. They also sell fresh vegetables, but again, they are not on view and you just have to ask what they have. The staff are really nice and don’t seem to mind at all when I come in to buy small quantities of things. It’s extremely cheap, example: one stalk lemon grass, can of coconut milk, dozen lime leaves, dozen fresh Thai chiles, and small piece of fresh tumeric root came to $ 3.50!