New Saigon Market

This was my first time here. The selection was good and the staff was very friendly. There was a language barrier which made is quite difficult to get an explanation of some of the goods. I will be going back in the near future for my asian cooking needs.

I recently visit this market. The picture that have on Unilocal is so old. The place look amazing new. There are more fruit, vegetable, fresh seafood, and grocery. A typical Asian store with Asian foods.

They don’t even pretend to be helpful here. Their selection is mediocre at best (didn’t have Or even know what Mirin is. looked at me like I had 5 heads for asking). Employees were so unhelpful I thought I was being punked. Stinky place. Stinky service. Won’t be back.

This was our first grocery expedition after moving to Denver from Las Vegas. It’s a pretty small store that stocks all the expected dry goods (noodles, rice paper), canned fruits & veggies, sauces and seasonings.
The meat, poultry and fish sections are pretty depressing.
The vegetable selection is very slim and the refrigeration seemed inadequate.
Prices at least were comparable to what we’re used to so that was a positive.

Recent visit was after Dim Sum @ Star Kitchen on Sunday June 23^rd 2013. While waiting for M to pick me up, I head to New Saigon Market. Go through aisle by aisle. Found some stuffs I needed so I purchased them. Some items seems old, aka seen their better days what not. They have frozen stuffs, lots of sauces, coffee, tea, snacks etc etc. Some of my Vietnamese friends who I know goes to this store to get some special stuffs to cook. May return when needed ONLY and ONLY if I cannot get those items I needed from other Asian stores I frequent to.
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Not quite as cheap as Little Saigon Market, but definitely the second best asian market in Denver. If Little Saigon Market is out of it, New Saigon Market, having slightly higher prices, will more than likely have what you’re looking for. Last trip that we made to Little Saigon, they were out of our Masman Curry paste (they always have it). We went down to New Saigon Market and they had about 40 cans of the stuff… we purchased most of them.

i do love asian markets, and this one has all the standard fare. but they literally sold me a rotten red snapper and when i tried to take it back they wouldnt have any of my american bull$%&* so i threw it in the trash. they dont have anything the rest of the asian markets dont have but they do have rotten fish. there are several other choices in the area. i would stick with one of them.

Maybe this is what a grocery is like in Vietnam, but it ain’t what I like in Denver! I’ve been to plenty of the asian grocery stores in Denver on South Federal and Sakura Square, and I have to say, this place is the crummiest and grimiest. Unfortunately, because I’m so skeeved out by the lighting, the mess, the rotting vegetables and the poorly organized shelves, I can say that in the five or six times I’ve been in this store, I’ve only walked out with merchandise once, and that is because I couldnt’ find any frozen banana leaves at any other store in town on short notice.
If authentic means dirty and disorganized and poorly lit, this place has authentic DOWN. Ick.

It’s an Asian (predominantly Viet — You couldn’t tell by the name?) store that carries all your typical Asian goods.
From noodles, sauces, rice, to odd sea creatures that you normally wouldn’t find in the Western grocers. They even have prepared foods like rolls, desserts, and warps. However with how they’re just placed on an open table, I’m a little wary. Especially the non-​refrigerated rolls that contained meat and shrimp.
The aisles are stacked and filled with various boxes of products, so if your shopping basket is filling up quick it can be a bit of a pain navigating around the narrow and sometimes blocked off aisles.
Hey but you gotta do what you gotta do to get your Asian goods. Check out is also over crowded with product and as a result the check out process is relatively slow and hampered and becomes a big old fire hazard should there be more than 3 shoppers in line.

I love love love Asian grocers! It doesn’t matter that they all stock pretty much the same things, I still spend way too long looking at each and every item. It just never gets old. I always drop in for, say, soy sauce or lemon grass, and end up leaving with bags and bags of stuff I may or may not actually use (I still have a can of Banana Blossoms that I don’t know what the hell to do with).
New Saigon is everything I want from this kind of store — a bit grubby, a bit smelly, with sacks of rice piled high, and shelf upon shelf of noodles, sauces, spices, soup mixes and oils, as well as packages of mysterious dried sea creatures and bottles of odd pickled vegetables. They offer a great selection of fresh produce, from all the usual things you’d find at Sooper’s to more exotic items like dragon fruit, lotus roots, persimmons etc. Their fresh meat and fish is great (though not quite as extensive as Little Saigon Supermarket up the road) and the prices are crazy cheap.
I left with three bags of stuff for under $ 20. Love it!
PS Their kim chee isn’t that great, and I can’t say I liked the green glutinous slab of tapioca-​type dessert (tasted grassy). The pickled carrots are amazing though.