Dun Huang Market

This place is way bigger than it looks from the outside, but not as big as the other Asian markets that I frequent (such as Hong Kong Market). They seemed to have lots and lots of Asian snack foods, convenience foods and many things that I had not seen (or maybe not noticed?) at other Asian Markets. It almost looked like an Asian convenience store, but then there was a meat market and produce section in the back. Their prices on fruit were much better than HEB. I would go back.

This place is really good, I mean it. With a thriving business, this place churns out the Asian groceries at a furious pace. Hub and I enjoy the thrum of the place as families buy their goods and peruse the produce. Although the store is a little smaller than some other Asian markets, it delivers on selection. I am most impressed with the meat and fish. When we were there the other day, a butcher was breaking down a whole pig there in front of everyone. You’ll never see that in HEB. The pork items are particularly attractive with some of the nicest and largest cuts of trotters I’ve seen. The fish is pretty darned fresh looking and diverse in selection. The dry and canned goods are about what I would expect at any Asian market. Overall, I like the store itself and the location in the heart of Dun Huang Plaza cannot be beat. You can ding around at the different restaurants and cafes and then come over to get your groceries. Perfect!

Whoever gives this a 5 should give themselves a headbutt to a brick wall. it’s old, smelly, and dirty, like many of the other supermarkets. Employing people who don’t give a donkey probably doesn’t help lift the atmosphere.

The restaurant in this place looks dinky and dirty. However the food is actually quite good. Try the smoked fish, it is prepared wonderfully. They also have a good amount of hand made dumplings and meat buns.
This review is solely off of the restaurant and not the grocery market.

I think this is the first supermarket I’ve reviewed.
But only cause I feel obligated to contribute to this one specifically because 1. I’m Asian and 2. Dun Huang is one of my go-to’s.
I’m not gonna lie — I’m pretty skeptical when it comes to Asian grocers. This is because from experience, things aren’t always fresh, and it just looks run-​down. Like an H-​E-​B addicted to drugs. But I digress.
Fresh produce. That’s the number one thing to look for in an Asian grocer. Cause lets face it, the Asian snacks and junk food are almost always the same at any store. But the produce — that’s when you know it’s legit. When the apples are not rotten after you take them home and cut into them. When there aren’t flies swarming above the papayas.
Anyway, fresh fruit, fresh veggies. And their meat is easy to order (friendly too, I must say) and — yep you guessed it — fraaayyysh as well!

All Asian Market are not created equal. There are many things I can get here, that I cannot get back on the (South)East Coast, where we don’t even have a China Town. Although we do try out best over there.
Again, it’s not like we don’t have Asian grocers, but for some reasons I ended spent over hundred bucks: moon cakes made in Taiwan, fresh made lunch & dinner items prepared right there in the kitchen, very fresh vegetables, swimming and hopping seafood (!) I ended up hauling a lot of dried goods and snacks, and way too many moon cakes because somehow I ended up with the mission of becoming the carriers to deliver these to everyone on the (South)East Coast before the holiday.
P. S. I have to specify that I’m from Southeast, so really the South, where we have more barbecue and fried chicken and greens, than dim sum and steamed buns and barbecue eel.

Of all the markets along the Bellaire corridor, Dun Huang probably has the freshest produce and the best selection of Asian goods. It may be because they are the newest in Chinatown… it could be because they are located in the best plaza… or it could be because they house an Asian goods store above the market.
The only thing I really dislike about Dun Huang is the fact that they prepack the majority of their vegetables. True you can select what size bag of veggies you wish to purchase, but let’s face it, most of them are packed with too much… forcing you to buy stuff that will just end up spoiling in your refrigerator.

Wonderful Asian market. The vegetables are gorgeous, prices are amazing.
This market is in one of the many strip centers on Bellaire, but it really is worth finding. Unlike the really big supermarkets, this store is peaceful to visit, but still has a very good variety of Asian foods and ingredients. I made a small list of common things a foodie might have in their pantry (Rooster Sauce, chili pastes, miso, dumplings, edamame etc.), and compared them with one of the really big Asian markets, and Whole Foods — Dun Huang was many tens of dollars less than Whole Foods, and competitive with the Asian market (but I think the produce was better yet). Upstairs has a nice variety of dishes and cookware (great knives), rice cookers etc.
Check out the tiny, baby bok choy!

Our market of choice in China Town. Welceom supermaret is definitly over rated and its always so pack. We used to go to welcome market till we found out about Dun Huang market.
Tips:
1. Park at the garage if its too hot outside.
2. All the restaurant around there are really good as well
3. Fresh fruits and vegetables.

It’s not just Chinese! This supermarket has everything! We were looking for some Japanese items and looked on Unilocal.We noticed that someone mentioned that Dun Huang Market had them, so we headed straight there. We typically go to Daido on Westheimer, but they were out of stock on what we needed.
We found a selection of Chinese and Japanese items at Dun Huang. We were really focused on the Japanese items and found some amazingly cheap food! They had a bunch of Japanese crackers and other snacks. We were looking specifically for something that goes in Futomaki sushi and couldn’t find it. We asked some of the men behind the counter and they were incredibly nice and helpful. They wandered around the store helping us look for two different items. In the end, they didn’t have what we needed, but we did pick up a lot of other goodies while we were there.
The produce looked very good and was incredibly cheap. There were tons of snacks and sweets as well. Upstairs there appeared to be a non-​food area, but we didn’t check it out.
You need to go in this place! I’m half Japanese but don’t look it and don’t speak a word. So, I felt a little intimidated going in here, but the people were so nice! The stuff is labeled in other languages for the most part, but there are good pictures on most packages. Browse, have fun, pick up some cheap stuff to try!

Okay I’ve been here numerous amounts of time…
I am always in the snack or fruit selections.
But this time around I saw they had this flan frozen pop and thought it looks interesting since I do love flan.
I told my mom and she’s like they have this other version over there and WTF does my mama not remember how much I love Japanese Flans?
That’s what she showed me! I have been looking for these suckers for 7 years now and found some in Paris. The ones in France actually tastes the same as the Japanese ones.
So I was delighted not to fork over some Euros for these sweet delights!
Yums I bought 4 sets of them and hell yes, I brought them back here to NY for me to enjoy.
I am going to go on a hunt to see if they start carrying them here too.

Very clean and appears to be organized. I come here for all my asian cooking needs. I also come and just browse around trying to recognize what little written chinese I still remember from two years of it in college. I will say it’s odd going into an asian market that’s not smelly.
That’s half the fun.

This is an odd little addition to the otherwise pan-​Asian dining complex on Bellaire. Having just finished lunch and FuFu Café and not having enough rooms for bubble tea yet, we walked here to find some missing pantry items that I needed. This store is indeed neat and clean and organized. How it is organized, I haven’t any idea since it is not in English. However, you can tell what you want from the ocassional duck tongue or basil seed drink and simply avoid that.
When you walk in, directly ahead is a bubble team service = it looks great, but not one word of what it is is written in English so man up and order if you want. Next to that, called «GoGo Tapas» are a variety of prepared meat and seafood items as well as a well stocked bakery. They were putting out some coconut dusted buns filled with a coconut buttercream and they smelled like heaven.
The produce was nice, but not exceptional. There are about 4 aisles of dried items and pantry staples (soup base, pickled vegetables, noodles, etc). Big cases of refrigerated items and frozen food carrying pot stickers, Korean rice cakes, bar sui mai, etc…
The meat looked great and the seafood seemed to be quite fresh. There was absolutely no smell and that, my friends, makes me happy.
However, the most fun was checking out. The lady in front of me was waiting for the cashier to run and return and give her a bag of noodles. When I checked out, I had $ 50.03 worth of items and she smiled and reached under the counter as she bagged my items and gave me two cans of Aloe Drink and a can of Guava Jelly. I have absolutely no idea what to do with this stuff and the thought of aloe drink makes me dream of something carbonated with the mucilageneous texture of okra… but I can’t help but laugh that the Danhuang Market idea of a Kroger’s card is to give you some unshelved items at random. Maybe, it is Asian Roulette, to try and not get the Duck Tongue.

This newer market isn’t the largest nor does it offer the largest selection of anything, but it’s decent enough. The prices on many things seem to be lower as well. Perhaps this is because there is absolutely no pretense to this store. The outside is very nice (as is the plaza as a whole), but the inside is almost warehouse-​like. I think the upstairs is a restaurant supply, but I’m not entirely sure since I didn’t venture up there. Also, the produce is located at the far right of the store, kind of in its own room, which is a little strange. I would not come here if you’re looking for variety, but the quality was good.
The best thing I can say about Dun Huang is that they had blueberry Love Letter cookies, which I’ve only been able to find before at the big Hong Kong mall/​supermarket past the Beltway, and I hardly ever make it out there. So now when I go to Fit, I can pick up my favorite cookies nearby, too! Otherwise, I have other Asian markets on my favorites list. Dun Huang really seems almost like a Stop-​and-​Go compared to a lot of the other offerings in Houston. And in that spirit – a warning: There is a $ 5 minimum for credit/​debit cards. So make sure you need more than just a packet of ramen before you make it to the register.

There are two new supermarkets that opened in new Chinatown. One of them is Dunhuang. Compared to the older supermarket establishments (namely, Welcome, Dynasty, and Diho) these new supermarkets blow them out of the water. Clean, big, sanitary looking, and not crowded, it makes it actually pleasant to come in and get what you need. There is no need to go back to those smelly old supermarkets again, unless you simply cannot find what you need here or across the street at Golden Foods.

After wanting to check out this market forever, I finally visited it today, after like, 5 months of wanting to, haha. I wish I would’ve come sooner! I really like this market. It’s clean, everybody’s really nice and friendly, and they have a good variety; so it’s not only Chinese or Vietnamese, but they also sell a good amount of Japanese food as well! Plus, they have food sampling xP The bakery smells good and everything looked fresh, the seafood and meat market were a pretty good size, but the produce section was alittle… little, but big enough! Also, there is a 2^nd floor for the houseware and cookingware, etc. They also sell bento supplies here! (Which is a bonus for me! I would love to have bentos and supplies, but I never make them, so I just like to look at them! Lol.) And they sell lots of cookingware, rice containers/​dispensers and woks/​pans. When I checked out, the total was $ 50.24, so the lady told me to go to cashier #1. I was like, okay… so I showed the cashier at #1 my reciept and she gave me some boba milk tea mocha thingamajig for free. Thanks! So I guess if you buy $ 50+ you get free boba? Haha, it was good, but I was so stuffed from dim sum at Dim Sum King (I have a review on it) I could barely finish it. But anyways, two thumbs up to Dun Huang Market!

This grocery store is a must visit when I’m Houston. The bonus of shopping at this store is that the prices of groceries are lower than many on the Asian strip, it’s clean, not smelly, and the absolute best thing is the bakery in the back of the store. This is absolutely one of the best places to buy Chinese pastries in Houston. The buns are baked fresh daily and are some the cheapest in town (like .80−1.00 per bun). The buns make fighting traffic and risking my life on the road of Bellaire worth it!