US Asian Supermarket

US isn’t the best Asian supermarket in Queens, but in its little stretch of Elmhurst, it beats out my old haunt, Hong Kong (which has precipitously dropped in quality over the past decade or so). It has a fairly wide variety of East/​Southeast Asian food, from produce to dry goods to frozen foods, but I think there are much better places to shop in Flushing or even in Manhattan’s Chinatown.
The produce here is definitely livelier looking than Hong Kong’s down the block, and the service, as is common to many supermarkets of its ilk, is brusque and somewhat sub-​TOEFL. But, it’s basically organized, it’s as clean as I could hope for, the prices are competitive, and I can usually find the random things I’m looking for with a few fun surprises (like a surprisingly broad ramen section, including several from the Ramen Rater’s top 10 list, as well as these delicious flavored Filipino pork rinds/​chicarrones).
I wouldn’t make a special trip out here for this supermarket, but if you’re eating in the area, it’s worth a stop here to pick up some treats. Parking in the neighborhood is pretty awful and the subway is essentially right outside their door, so public transport is probably the way to go.

I think this place is Taiwanese supermarket, but they have many exotic Asian foods including Filipino, Thai and Japanese. They have variety of food and they are cheap. They have fresh fish section, too.
I was happy to find Boba Tapioca in this supermarket. Since I became into Taiwanese bubble tea after I lived in Elmhurst, I want to make bubble tea by myself. I found Boba Tapioca here only for $ 1.79. I saw the same product was sold for almost $ 8.00. They have cheap Asian snacks, too. I bought Filipino snack here for the first time, and «Oishi» brand snack is really good. My favorite is shrimp snack and potato snack. Japan and Korea have similar shrimp snack, but Filipino one is spicy. I love it.
This place is cleaner than a smaller Chinese supermarket near Grand Ave Newtown station.

Ever since the decline of its competition Hong Kong Supermarket around the corner. This place has been busy. They have parking but they share it with other business in the lot and is just horrific. The inside is a little cramped and the lines are not organized that anyone can cut in line.

I really enjoy this supermarket. Very easy shopping everything is organized and clean I don’t feel overwhelmed here. The seafood is fresh the poultry is always cheap the vegetables and fruits are plentiful. The lines are long but fast moving the cashiers don’t play they are always on full speed. The parking lot is crazy though again with the Asian drivers man of man, be careful parking they have people watching the lot to make sure you don’t park your car and leave the shopping center. They have tow truck company’s waiting to tow.

Customer service is horrible!!! They sell expired food!!! I purchased soy milk that expired back in December 2013!!! Hello! It’s April 2014! I went back to exchange it, not return, but just switch with a soy milk that isn’t expired and the cashier said NO because it has passed 7 days since I made my purchase… The receipt clearly said no returns after 7 days but I didn’t want to return it but simply exchange it with something that’s not expired! We asked to speak with the manager so the cashier said something in Chinese to her walkie talkie so we were expecting the manager to come out. After 10 minutes the cashier said the manager isn’t here… I don’t understand why it took her so long to tell us! How can the manager not be there? It’s a busy Saturday afternoon? Seriously, I strongly urge everyone to please check the expiration date before you actually buy something at this market. If I can give negative stars I would.

Here is the awesome part: blueberries $ 1 a pack for 125 grams. Scallion is 3 for $ 1. Chinese Parsley also known as Cilantro is $ 0.99. Green Bean sprouts are $ 0.79 a pound. One bag of carrots is $ 0.69. Altogether from this visit, I spent exactly $ 5.21. Of course, some of these are weekly deals, but this suffices. If you need dumplings, wontons, meat, seafood, etc. There are low priced produce and even baby taro!
Now, there are downsides: no bathroom, only a few cashiers are open at 6pm, hordes of people crawling over you to reach for a bag or just leaning over you for an item in front of you, trying to get things nearly knocking you over at times. So if you cannot stand crowds, this is not your place. In spite of hustle-​and-​bustle, the weird thing is I’ll probably go back.

I give the slight edge to the HK supermarket next door, given that it is slightly cleaner than this one. However, both of them are pretty much the same thing — you get all the Chinese/​Asian goodies you need here, along with a huge fruit spread that’s common among Chinese supermarkets.
In terms of price it’s really a toss up. Both are about the same (read: cheap) though I didn’t really like the meat selection here as much as HK next door. Otherwise, it’s pretty much what you expect from an Asian supermarket — decent prices, good veggie/​fruit selection and somewhat dirty interiors.

Your standard Queens Asian market where the majority is Chinese and the international aisle has pasta and cereal.
Replaced NY Supermarket — which is actually of the same family as Pacific Supermarkets. Although the place was completely gut-reno’d the final layout and selection to mirrors every other market in the area.