T & T Supermarket

The best store!!! My family lives going here it’s got so much different stuff and it’s cheaper for fresh veggies than save ons Safeway ect, we aren’t Asian but like it better here than anywhere else it’s a treat for my kids to come here and the staff is really helpful and nice I love the bakery and all the cool food that Canadian stores never have like strawberry kitkats and much more!!!

Located inside Metrotown, this place is super convenient to buy groceries –Asian-​style. Be prepared to get trampled by people especially on the weekends where it can be a bit hectic. They sell sushi, dim sum, seafood, meat, frozen food, fresh produce, cooking electronics, pots and pans, snacks, dried goods, drinks and a take out plus food court etc. They do have good deals when on sale, or deal of the week, special promotions etc. The super market is pretty big and i’m sure you can basically find anything you might need for your kitchen in the Asian world. They have sampling on the weekends so you can try before you buy. There are always tonnes of staff stocking up and are usually helpful if you need to find something. They do have many check outs and are usually pretty efficient with 5 mins wait during busy hours.

It’s one of the busiest T&T I’ve ever been to. I usually come here for vegetables and fruits. Their bakery section is very good. I buy their Korean blazing buns when it’s on sale and they’re delicious. Sometimes crabs go on sale for really good deal.
The fun part is food sampling. Also they sell machine for shaved ice during summer and I can get it for discounted price when it’s on sale. Try Japanese icecreams they’re so good. They go on sale sometimes.

this was a pretty huge and crowded t&t store I’ve been to that had rows of groceries and things to buy from. we were able to find or maple and salmon products here as well as window shop in the mall. It was a better store to shop at for canadian and asian products than the superstore that was on the other end of the mall. The staff was also really nice.

Taro Pastry: no flavor (no butter, just they use lard or margarine or soybeal oil) flaky part on the outside, starch with food coloring on inside. NO Taro.
Lotus Seed and Salted Egg Pastry: no flavor flaky part on outside, starch with very minimal lotus seed flabor inside. Egg ¼. not salted. No Lotus or very extreme minimal.
Steamed BBQ Pork Bun: Good flavor, too much pieces of fat.
Mini Red Bean Cake: no flavor outside, and inside more starch very little bean.
Sticky rice wrap (chicken/​pork): very small amount of rice and fillings but at least variety of fillings. A little too greasy. ¼ egg, 1 half slice mushroom, ¼ tsp meat… you get the picture
Cold Buffet — salad items: all fresh and tasty. Expensive. .155 kg is 155 grams or $ 3.64. When you buy it ready packaged its $ 3.50 for 180 grams and is also marked down at the end of the day.
Hot Buffet — almost all items there from day before or morning. If you buy at night its been there for entire day or more and not hot usually… bacteria growing on it. LOOK at what TIME the food was put out under the lukewarm heater.
All expensive for the price due to lack of quality and lack of true ingredients, and/​or not enough ingredients.
Total $ 13.65 w tax.

The only thing T&T Supermarket Metrotown has is it’s location. The store is extremely busy, disorganized, and not a pleasant place to shop. The grocery lines are always long.
Their food is generally pretty decent and I often like to ofter their 2 or 3 items + rice combos. However, the managers there are pretty cheap and make their staff limit portions of the protein and instead fill up on more veggies or other filler. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE vegetables, but if you’re ordering a meat dish and the dish is almost empty with say 10 beef:1 veggie, and in most cases, people wouldn’t even go for the dish anyways because it looks so picked over already… why oh why would you still pick out all the veggies and only offer a few pieces of beef? It’s so obvious to the customer as you painstakingly fish out the vegetables in the sea of beef. Makes me think what they are going to do with all the left over beef? Mix it with their fresh batch? Hmmmm… if you’re going to limit 4 pieces of protein for each combo, why not cook it with more vegetable so the proportions are to you’re liking and you’re not leftover with so much beef?
Tips:
–Did you know that the fish dish is also mostly tofu? It looks like a big serving of fish but it’s cooked in a big pile of tofu.
–Brown rice is available as an alternative option but they always give you the white rice automatically. The brown rice is hidden on the menu, but ask for it! If you’re going to be filled up with carbs, pick the healthy one.
T&T was my go to place for lazy, quick meals but I think I’d rather go elsewhere if I’m just going to be served «filler».

Food is good but I don’t like their customer service. It seems nobody can speak fluent English and they’re often not sure what people are asking in English. They often speak back to people with Chinese (Mandarin?) and English mixed, which is very hard to understand.
After years of shopping at their store, I never ask them anything anymore.

another paradise in one roof, another place that is located inside a big shopping mall. fresh cut meat. poultry, sea foods, live crabs, different fish and lobster, avalon etc… huge selection of local and imported veggies and fruits. groceries, pharmacy and other kitchen utensils… cooked foods, specialty bread, sushi, sashimi, bubble tea. plants flowers… omg name it and they have it, diverse clientele but mostly asians… very good place to do your marketing and groceries… parking and wifi courtesy of the mall…

I was introduced to this Strawberry Party Cake at work and I asked the person where she bought it? She said, «T&T and it’s the only cake that I buy for my family and friends because everyone loves it.» I told her, «I never knew that T&T made such great tasting cakes!»
I was never a big fan of cakes from T&T, but their Strawberry Party Cake is truly a great cake. I love the very light texture of the entire cake including the cream, the sprinkles of dark chocolate and the dark and white chocolate sticks, and the strawberries tasted so fresh and sweet. Sweetness from fruits is okay with me and the rest of the cake isn’t very sweet, except maybe for the chocolate sticks! Inside, there are layers are fresh strawberries too. I actually ordered it for a family member’s birthday and it tasted just as good.
For those who don’t eat a lot of dessert, I recommend asking for the six inch cake which priced under 20 dollars.

Let’s be honest. This place is dirty and the staff is generally rude. But they have the best deli of all T&Ts. I love going there just for the delis. Everything else is just gross.

Their hot deli foodstuffs are a pretty good deal considering the food court upstairs charges AT LEAST $ 10 for most things. The best time to come here for groceries, however, is Friday night. It’s like a ghost town! I also like how they have some really interesting imported fruits and veggies… would never buy them but they’re interesting to look at nevertheless

From the minister of health:
T&T (Metrotown) Dim Sum 147 — 4800 Kingsway 11-​Mar-​2014 12-​Mar-​2014
— Failure to ensure premises is free of pests
— Failure to ensure food premises is maintained in sanitary condition
I would not buy anything from this place

Definitely the place to buy delicious green onion pancakes, taro buns to steam, puccho candy and those amazing facial masks in bulk. I love coming here, always a great price on plants and flowers too!

My wife went to get some veggies from the produce, to be brusquely ‘greeted’ in Mandarin. Judging by the tonal quality, one was left with the impression it didn’t matter one bit whether she understood.
Later I went to pay for the groceries, to be shouted at by the clerk– as she was holding my $ 50. bill, I can only guess she was asking whether I intended to pay with it?
Uncomfortable that I might say something to draw attention in a store where my wife and I are clearly minorities, I could only state evenly «yes, from $ 50. please».
It should be noted that other T&T supermarkets (e.g. stadium location, ‘osaka’ in park royal) generally treat their customers much better.

If you have been shopping at the mall and feel hungry, you can get a really reasonably priced meal from the Hot Food, Deli and various stations at this T & T.
Everyday after 6pm or thereabouts, they will start marking down their sushi and deli items.
They also have a Dim Sum and Steamer section, my favourite is the rice roll station that you can ask them to put in different fillings in the healthier sticky rice instead of the glutinous sticky rice.
They also have a very nice bakery, 3 cream puffs for under $ 2. The original is the best but they have different flavors (Mango, Chocolate, etc.)
Oh, and you can also buy your groceries there also.

Even though this place is a zoo to be in the make your own sticky rice roll is delish. You can choose from 5 different fillings and they prepare it in front of you. I always choose the purple rice.

I like coming here and looking at all the food more like a culinary museum of wonder. Rarely do I actually buy anything unless something is unique and on sale. I do love Asian bakeries as their sugar content in pastries is much lower than other conventional bakeries which makes it easier on the sweet tooth. Plus I love most things green tea flavor.
In spite of this being a culinary museum, the crowds are as annoying as f*ck. They can’t or don’t know how to walk or know what the f*ck to do with themselves when walking. They’re worse than babies learning to walk for the first time.
The ladies at the cash til are deadly slow that you just want to punch a kitten in the face (figure of speech, I don’t really want to hurt a kitten) in frustration. The line-​ups, regardless of what time or day are painfully slow thanks to the cash staff. I think a turtle passed me by when trying to wait to pay for my sushi today.
The prices are reasonable if you know where to look for the sales.

This was my second visit to this supermarket and I am still just in awe of this store. It is inside the Metrotown mall. It is huge in there and has an awesome deli, produce and bakery department. I was in the sushi section for at least 15 minutes looking at the selections they have. It was like a kid in a candy store. The deli is so awesome. Banh mi, boba teas, sushi, sashimi, dim sum, chinese lunch boxes and so much more. The cakes in the display were just beautiful. Whenever I am in town I try and stop by to get some goodies to take home.

This review is for 01/​01/​2012. After walking around Metropolis at Metrotown, I noticed that there was one location a lot of Asians were walking to. I was wondering what was attracting so many of the Asian demographics and I found it. It was a supermarket… in the mall, the T&T Supermarket.
I am familiar with Asian supermarkets, hence I am Asian. The one thing that was unusual was the supermarket inside a MAJOR mall. In Los Angeles, most Asian Supermarkets are located on strip malls. It was a nice change to seeing something else than a Target or Wal-​Mart connected to the mall.
There were tons of people in line grabbing food, as if it were the end of the world. I saw roller baskets. I thought it was standing toddler rides. People were all over the place, the seafood, the meat department, the frozen section, and the bakery. The one section that caught both my friend’s and my senses was the restaurant. There was tons of cooking going on and it was so DELICIOUS, but my transporter called us to go to King Buffet.
The smell was overwhelming and my friend was drooling over the food. He wanted to get one to satisfy the appetite. My friend is worst than any dog. I kept trying to put logic, but kept saying… I am going to get one and I said, «We are going to a buffet dude!!». He is a native of Canada and it was his first time in T&T Supermarket. I am sure he is going to go back soon and try out the food. The one thing I could not find was the Yan Yans. If you find it, take a photo of it at the store. You’ll sure to get a COMPLIMENT from me. :)
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Oh wow, this place is a freaking WAR ZONE on the weekends.
Parking is ample in the nearby parkade. With that said, you do have to give the Asian moms the occasional stink-​eye while jockeying for a space. Also, try to park out of the swing range of car doors. We all know how considerate many people are when it comes to door dings.
Within a few seconds of stepping into the store boundaries, I managed to trip over 3 people. I’m not that tall myself, but I literally didn’t see the other shoppers as I trampled them. If any of you are reading this, I apologize.
This is one of the larger T&T locations, so the selection quite decent. There’s even a section for household stuff such as cleaners.
Other than the sardine factor, my biggest complaint is the poor layout of the check-​out section. Half the counters are along a narrow strip of real estate, forcing everyone to jam in like it’s rush hour.
As great as the selection is, I seriously got claustrophobic in there and had to get out. I think I’ll stick to the other locations.