99 Ranch Market

Don’t even go to this market to get their own packaged meat products. They smell and taste like Pine Sol.
My first impression to this store was dark and old. The whole store with aroma of Pine Sol. If you are getting the manufacture sealed products, they are fine. Don’t get their own store packaged products. I had to throw away the fish cake and pork shank meat I bought from them. Don’t matter how I wash and cook them, they have the taste and smell of Pine Sol. Disgusting! Can I report the issue to the county health department?!

This is the worst range 99 I’ve ever been. It is so poorly managed. There was no cart to be found constantly, understaffed in the seafood department. Very limited selection of herb. Not sure if I can say anything good about this branch.

If you can survive the parking lot, you’ll find some amazing deals here as well as some of the most unique food and drink items you’ll ever encounter. The seafood, meat and produce offer decent values on a slew of things-​you-​wont-​find-​at-​Safeway and then some.

This place has everything: a deli where you could eat there or take-​out, a corner section where u could buy various of yummy breads, and other sections consist of common grocery stuff. This place mainly carries Asian foods, like there Korean kimchi, dim sum, Sriracha, and Korean ice cream.etc. They do a good job cleaning and organizing. Workers are nice, but has a dull expression. Parking here is no problem and this place is next to Ross, Phở, Baskin Robin…
I Don’t know why its 99 market since everything cost 1 $ and up

I was at Ranch 99 in Dublin on Fri, Jan 1^st 2016. I walked over to where the fresh fish in tanks were. I noticed the tanks with black bass had fish swimming upside down. Some of the fish were side ways. And some were dead. All in the sane tank. Totally gross. I would NEVER buy fish from Ranch 99

I was out here in Dublin staying with my BF at his hotel and I needed gas. This 76 station across the street from this 99 Ranch location seemed the cheapest (cough), so I came here and thought, I may as well drop into the 99 while I’m here.
I actually don’t care for this store much, as the 99 in Pleasanton is much nicer and the parking is way better, but coming here at 10am on a weekday is not too bad. All the deli food is out as well as the dim sum items and the ducks hanging there. I don’t need Chinese food at 10am, but I’m driving back to Reno and I’ll be there for a week or so, and Reno has no good Asian deli and dim sum, so I better get some here. I get some of that weird white jello stuff in the dim sum area, called bok tong go. It’s weird, but I do like it for some reason. Looking through the fridge sections I find the plastic boxed steamed BBQ pork buns, 6 to a box for about $ 4.50. They freeze well and reheat in the microwave wrapped in a wet paper towel. I get a few boxes of those, and then there’s the big bags of shrimp chips on sale for $ 1.99, get a couple of those.
It’s easy walking around here at this hour, no big pushy crowds and no lines at the cashier. Easy in and easy out. Lesson here: Come here early during the week and it’s way super easier to shop here and get service at the fish counter or butcher or even check out and definitely find parking! The food is fresh at the deli too!

So many things to get here. I am like a kid in a candy store. Lots of fresh fish, fresh fruits and veggies and amazing foods you can’t find elsewhere.
I get my octopus here, as I cannot find it anywhere else for some reason. They are frozen, but when you thaw them out, you know they were fresh and flash frozen quickly. Super yummy.
Brought a chef friend from AZ here when he and the family came to visit us and he bought a ton of stuff to take back to AZ. Its a fun place, I love it. Just wish I didn’t get weird looks from everyone for being the only non-​asian in the place. lol. But hey, they still serve me with a smile and yes, I am Asian at heart. Thanks.

Nice large market with all the asian items you’d expect including meat, produce and all the dry grocery. There is a food station in there as well with all the bbq pork, crispy pig, etc. if you just want to swing in for a bite. The seafood though was hit and miss… I’ve always been told to buy fish with clear glossy eyes as that indicates its freshness… most fish eyes here were clouding but looked okay… steered clear of that dept. Bought some nice short rib which they’ll slice as thin as you like for some nice kalbi on the grill. Parking is plentiful and service is what you’d expect from a chinese market… lacking.

Saw a huge rat in the produce section. Surprised to see rodent in broad day light. Please address pest/​rodent issue. This is making it really hard for me to continue to shop at the store. Thank you

Of the three 99 Ranch in my side of the Bay (El Cerritto, Pleasanton), this one’s my favorite.
First off, this is 99 Ranch, so you know what you’ll get in terms of food and produce. it’s similar any other California 99 Ranch (Texas ones are a lil different).
But what differentiate this one beyond the other two in my area.
1. Much cleaner than the one in El Cerrito. That one is pretty cramp and feels quite dirty in comparison.
2. feels cheaper than the one in Pleasanton. I haven’t done a one to one comparison but it appears that each time i go to the one in Pleasanton, the produce are always a little more expensive. The Pleasanton is slightly nicer and bigger.
But overall, i like this one better. It is the right size for me. If you head out there early mornings, you can get in and out really quickly.
The deli is decent as always. This is my go to Asian grocery store in the San Ramon /​Dublin area.

I am a Ranch 99 fan since the first store in the Bay Area. I was excited with the opening of the Richmond Ranch 99 back in late 1990s. And then the Dublin store opened in late 2000s. I am sad to say the quality and cleanliness of the store has gone down really bad. I was there today hoping to pick up some takeout and looked at all the disgusting food they were pushing to sell. None of the food looked right nor edible after being left out for hours. It is sad to say I will not be going back. I don’t like giving 1 star reviews but this Ranch 99 store deserves it. I will drive further to Pleasanton to frequent the store there.

I visited this location a few months ago and had a great experience… i guess i didn’t Unilocal them then and would’ve given them 4 stars… Clean, cashier friendly and lines moved efficiently. Wow… unusual…
Came here again last week and experience was poor…2 cashiers… lines about 10 people long… then you have those customers who think they can go to the medicine counter and pay… and the worker takes that person to the regular register to ring them up… what happened to next person in line? No organization here and preferential treatment to native speakers. Then i was looking for chinese sausage and asked the 2 guys stocking the shelves…“can you tell me which aisle the lop cheng?” The guy made a nasty look and said WHAT!!! Rude… the other stock worker at least knew i had bad chinese but knew where to direct me… ah come on!
Deli food was UNDERwhelming… doughy, dry and didn’t think you could have a bad, baked pork bun. They LOOK appetizing but it was sweet, ground pork vs the chopped pork stuffed inside… had a very weird texture and flavor and the bun was dry. The sweet rice cake was thicky, chewy and dry… wasn’t good that day… I do have to add the ladies at the deli were very nice and helpful… unlike the rest of the staff in the store… BLAH!
Sure, i’d come back to get ingredients but not the best experience on this last visit.

More gripe to add. Over the weekend I requested for a 1.5−2lb Tilapia fresh from the tank. Excellent the guy got me exactly what I wanted. He killed the fish, weighed it and gave me a number for pick up. I come back 5 – 10 minutes later handed another guy my number and he gave me my fish. When I got home I found they had given me someone else’s fish. This has happened several times and I guess I never learn to check my order. Will definitely do so from now on. However there’s no excuse for getting it wrong this many times.

It’s a Ranch 99.
I went in to buy a BO of soup, yes a BOX.
It was hard to track a person that works there down because other than the cashiers, no one was wearing a uniform or apron. After walking back & forth trying to track an employee down, a gentleman finally asked «ma’am do you need help?» I must have given him the look of «YES, thank you soooooo much.» because that is ultimately how I felt. lol.
He was awesome in helping me try & find a box of the soup I was looking for. They were out of stock so I just went with a different soup.
This Ranch is a lot smaller than a couple I have been in both here & in WA.
I did notice one thing when I was waiting for the guy to check the back for inventory, they have ORGANIC, GF, Vegan soy sauce in more than one brand. Pretty impressive as you know, us Asians love our MSGs & GMOs. lol. Yes, I am generalizing but it’s lightweight true :)
Overall, I am glad I FINALLY stepped into this store after eyeing it for several months :) I will definitely be back since it is a couple blocks away from my work.

I can’t believe I haven’t written a review about Ranch 99, this is one of my families anchor stores. We don’t go here ever week, but without it our pantry and meals wouldn’t be as good.
This place saved me from pulling my hair out in the local grocers «ethnic food» isle and having to drive out to Oakland to cook a variety of foods at home. They bill themselves as a global Asian foods supermarket, and it’s really super.
The green isles are full of the average foods and things you won’t find in your average market (I’m crazy for still-​in-​the-​rind Lychee nuts, and when they are in season you can find them here). The seafood counter spans about half one of the long walls and has tanks high enough that the staff need ladders to get inside. This is where we buy our crab when it is in season, they have mountains of it and handle the crowds that gather around very well. It doesn’t hurt that they have very reasonable prices. They can also clean and do some basic preparation on the seafood as well if you need them too.
They have a great hot food counter. Ducks hanging in the window along with ribs and pork along with the steam treys of pork buns and other delish foodstuffs. Just this evening I picked up a variety of things from frozen to a hot half duck and a pound of their house special roast pork (oh wow is that good) and put together our own Dim Sum dinner at home for the family (three of the four burners were steaming layers of somethings).
The staff have always been friendly and helpful. I’ve had to ask quite a few questions over the last few years (primarily «can you tell me what this is?» and sometimes followed by «great, can you tell me what it says about preparation?»). I have hope that one of these days Google Translate via photograph will actually work reliably, but until then the staff at Ranch 99 have been willing to help this grizzlie adams impersonator along.

Frankly, this location is probably my least favorite 99 Ranch for general grocery shopping. The parking lot gots some seriously rough dips and the aisles seem narrow and cramped. They don’t have any good restaurants or Bubble tea options compared to Richmond, Concord, and Pleasanton branches.
Where this branch does get kudos from me is that they sell wedges of Jackfruit! I heard good things about it and decided to try it for the first time! A whole Jackfruit can be a size of a boulder — it’s like durian with the spiky shell but not smelly at all. A pre-​cut Jackfruit will still test your knife skills but it’s easier to see and cut out the fruit. Look for the Orange colored flesh encased inside a fibrous yellow pith. Seeds are huge and pop out easily. Eating the Orange flesh of the jackfruit was like an epiphany — imagine the sweetest mango, papaya, and pineapple combined into a single sweet fruit! Give it a try — I’m sure it will get more popular. It’s supposedly rich in vitamins and antioxidants, but has a potential downside of behaving like a laxative if eaten in large quantities. Guess we can’t have too much of a good thing!

I was headed toward Fremont, maybe San Jose and Sunnyvale, too, but I thought I’d check to see what Asian groceries were available closer to me.
As I was at Target, it told me to check in here. I didn’t see the store. I used navigation, went around a big circle to find that it was just behind Target, and across from the camera store. Ha!
They have a good variety of items, even though I thought that it would only be Chinese items.
The produce seemed fresh, although I didn’t buy any. I usually buy dry and packaged items that will last a while, between trips.
I found Korean ramen in 4 packs, Japanese coffee, tea – things I usually buy, and a microwave oven kind of steamer tray, which will come in handy.
I was impressed that they had the restaurant with pick your own Dim Sum, Congee, and more. They also had some fine looking birds hanging near there, and some pretty baked goods.
It’s much closer for me than even going to Fremont, so I was pleased to find it. I’ll still have to go to Sunnyvale, if I need more Korean items or San Jose for Japanese items, but in a pinch, this will do.
Update 2014.10.14: Tried the Beef Stew Noodle Soup and it was good. Whether it was worth $ 6.99, I’m not sure, but it was better than the Wei Chuan frozen entrée even if the stew meat was not as good. Of course, that’s not quite twice as much, but they had other selections that you might like more.
The people behind the counter were friendly and it didn’t take long for the food.

This is a really fun place to browse and shop if you like Asian food. Some of my favorite things are the Mama noodles (Thai Tom Yum), the Indomie Mi Goreng ramen, Myojo Udon (all the flavors are good, although I was partial to abalone). Calpico is good — they have tons of flavors — and so are the alo drinks and the pudding cups, especially the ones with squares of lychee.
The only thing I got from their deli counter was bubble tea, and ordering can be a bit of a trial because they don’t seem to speak English very well. Another time I came here with a group of friends and the workers just stared at us. Eventually I asked them if they were open and they said, «No.» Thanks.
Actually, that’s something else I’ve noticed. If you are white (or non-​Asian) you get treated very oddly. It isn’t always rude, although sometimes I have been treated rudely. It’s more like people stare at you. They stare at you in the face, and then they stare at your cart, and what’s in it, and then they stare at your face some more.
It’s like, Oh, hi. I’m white and I like Asian food. IS THAT OKAY? (I like Asian men, too, actually. That’s a bit harder to reconcile, though. Asian food doesn’t have disapproving Asian mothers who only grudgingly tolerate your ancestry.)
Ramen can be very expensive if you buy it at other stores so if you have a taste for it, I strongly recommend getting it here. I used to stock up at Ranch 99 every summer before I left for college. Ramen pretty much became the staple of my diet. It’s more expensive than the Maruchan noodles you can get EVERYWHERE, but a lot of them have better ingredients.
They also have Indian food, too! I love the Haldiram’s snack foods they have, which are made with gram flour. I would happily eat an entire package of Chilli Chatak Lachha and Moong Dal in one sitting. Sometimes, though, I have found that the ones in stock were past the expiration dates so always check! Check for the ramen, too.
What else is good? Ohhhh, in the freezer section, the taro buns are good. I think they’re even better than the ones filled with mung bean. Also, ice milk bars. If they have Melona, get that brand. It’s one of the best!

My first visit to 99 Ranch Market was immediately following a phở-​MSG fest at a restaurant nearby — it was awesome! «99» is an excellent market, filled with exotic items that dazzle the senses. Yes, the store smelled fishy, but it’s a tribute to all the fresh fish they stock (poor bastards waiting to die on fish/​lobster/​crab death row). I found it very entertaining that they played ads on the store PA system that were voiced by a woman «whiter» than me — very entertaining! I enjoyed the vast variety of items «99» carries… I could shop there regularly. The market was very clean and staff was friendly. I’m not sure about the prices, but a 12-​pack of Sapporo beer was $ 8.95, about the same price I pay for ONE large bottle at my local sushi haunt. 4.99 stars! Thanks «99» for letting me roam your aisles in amazement and taking photos with my iPhone.

I love the selection of produce, vegetarian ‘meat,’ and live seafood here! This location is always clean, the cashiers up front are always friendly, and I always leave with everything I came for (and more).
The hot deli staff could learn to smile a little…