China Town Market

Not vast but decent selections. A depot selling dried goods including mushroom, sea cucumber, abalone, tea, Chinese herbs and medicine. They also have an assortment of porcelain dinnerware, designed with exotic motifs in cobalt pigment.
Most of the merchandise could be found at another Chinese grocery store diagonally across the Olive Blvd, but the diced stewing lamb, giant jujube and fresh bitter melons are three staples I’ve been getting each visit.
The place also does a much better job than the other Chinese supermarket in wooing customers with warm greetings and smile. They remember you over a few months of patronage and take note of details you shared while making purchases or in conversations.
I only wish they could bring back the Taipan bakery (mooncakes). I was able to find it once years ago and I’ve never seen it again. Using the Chinese supermarket mentioned earlier as my reference point for Chinese grocery stores, this place deserves ⁴⁄₅.

Best place get your white flower pain reliving oil.
And for all you Chinese. Fresh foods.

friendly workers there. I got what I was looking for and also found a fruit called a Dragon Fruit and tried it for the first time ever. Although I did not like the dragon fruit I enjoy trying new things. I’ll definitely be going back to get my natto, and other asian needs. It’s clean and ran efficiently. There were two cashiers working when I went in and as I said they were helpful with finding what I was looking for.

Cantonese owner selling Cantonese goods.
Can’t get better anywhere else. This is the one stop that you will need for authentic Chinese cooking ingredients. Prices is fair.
Service is good. Highly recommended.

Great small family owned place with a good selection of Asian food items. Easy to navigate, clean and organized. The staff are friendly and if you’re Cantonese it is easy to talk with the people who work there.

I like this place for my Asian groceries and produce. Not as large as the other ones nearby but clean and not smelly. Very organized.

Very clean and well organized Asian grocery store. I noticed that the produce was neatly sorted and priced and they offer everything from condiments to snacks to frozen food to kitchen ware.
There weren’t many customers when my family came in about 12 days ago and there isn’t a lot of parking but I was very impressed with the offering and cleanliness of this market.

Here are some interesting things about this place:
A convenient ethnic grocery store for almost all of you Chinese cooking needs.
Good selection of juice cans (including taro and milo)
Lots of dried goods and limited selection of vegetables and meats, although they are fresh. They have an exhaustible sauce selection, including three kinds of Mrs. Tsao’s chilli paste (Yum!).
$ 10 credit card minimum.
Check out the Chinese bakery next door as a treat for shopping for your favorite Chinese foods.

When I go chinese food stuff shopping, I stop by this place, the olive farmer’s market, and the seafood city store. Each of these stores have something nifty to offer.
By nature, humans are lazy. Thus, when you find something really convenient, you want to go back. This place is great for convenience. I can pop in and pop out in 5 – 10 minutes. It’s clean and the people at the counter are often times seen picking through their veggies. I decided to return here after my first time because of the veggies.
I LOVE snow pea shoots. They’re probably my favorite. Unfortunately, most chinese stores sell snow pea shoots that aren’t really great. They’re finicky plants and often times get too tough in some places and almost mushy in others. The snow pea shoots here are amazing. The owners must pick through it themselves! SO IMPRESSIVE! The same goes for a lot of their stuff. When I cook, I hate going through and picking out the sub-​par produce. This place saves me that effort!
My biggest problem with this place? The selection. Half the time I can’t find what I need. I guess if their selection was better, they wouldn’t be able to be so attentive to details… that’s a fair trade-​off I guess.
As long as they’re good about veggies, i’ll shop here often!
Tip: they require cash unless you’re buying more than 10 bucks of stuff. Maybe it’s 20? something like that.

I like this place cause they’re my people. They have a small selection but a really well chosen selection.
They also have pretty fresh meat and vegetables.

Best Asian Food Market in St. Louis!
First, this place doesn’t have the funky smell when you walk in to most Asian grocery stores.
Second, the selection of veggies are always fresh and lookin good. Some Asian markets (around town) have veggies that have sat on the shelf or fell off the truck a few times — China Town Market veggies always look fresh.
Third, they always carry what I want. Thin rice noodles for Lad Nah, Soy Sauces, boxed Tofu… etc. They also carry the best coconut milk — in the blue can. There are no extra unwanted chemicals.
And lastly, the one owner dude is funny and a nice guy. He’ll most likely be the one ringing up your bill.
We also occasionally get the rice ball things in the banana leaf (near the register).

Thanks to St. Louis Unilocalers, I was able to find this supermarket on my way to LuLu for lunch.
Very clean and nice smelling. Limited quantity of chinese vegetables, but fresh. Very limited fresh meat, but fresh.
Dry goods of all kinds. Cantonese speaking.
Nice place to shop. Pick up some chinese cookies.

This is the best of all the asian markets on Olive Blvd! Although it’s one of the smallest markets and does not have as much stock as the other markets, I think they have the best quality of products.
The produce is always fresh because they actually have employees picking through and packaging the vegetables. The meats although limited in selection is also fresh and looks sanitary. The dry good selections have all the essential items for Asian cooking and the shelves are well stocked. The store is the very clean and is a pleasant place to shop.

What’s cool about this little stretch of Olive is that there are quite a few consecutive Asian grocery stores in a row. I’d like to think that I have a good handle on which place has what and which has a better of it and would be the easiest place to go through.
This place, for me, is the alternate that gets to sit on the bus with the rest of the team but doesn’t do anything most of the time.
However, it’s perhaps the cleanest and tidiest Asian grocery store I’ve been in. Period. It’s pretty gosh darned impressive. Obviously, from my rating, that doesn’t matter too much to me. I think that alone makes people go there over the other pretty disgusting places. Also, it’s right next to the best Chinese bakery in town.
One last thing, though. They don’t have «fresh» soy milk… as in they only sell the non-​refridgerated soy milk in the cartons… it matters to me for absolutely no good reason and it might matter to you.