New Kam Man

My friend always comes here to get chicken and duck feet/​wings. They are fairly priced and a good snack when u need something to bite on. They also have roast pork, roast duck, and soy sauce chicken too! All very good.
They have all the essential needs at this supermarket from snacks, dry goods, and etc.
Come by to grab some Japanese snacks or if you’re feeling wild try chicken/​duck feet

Not a bad place to run your errands, do some groceries, buy your makeup, and pick up some food to-​go. I’ve been a customer here for many years and it has been one of my favorite places to go when I’m in chinatown. Upstairs is your usual japanese/​korean beauty products and cute stationary. Their stationary does seem a bit overpriced but their cosmetics is decently priced over a wide variety of brands. On their main floor is tea/​delicacies on the right, dry and frozen produce down the middle, and prepared food on the left. Now, I’ve only tried the roast meat section in the left corner (I haven’t heard great things about the noodle bar so I’ve been avoiding it). However, the roast meat section does the deed in filling my stomach pangs.
Like all other chinese roast meat counters, they sell by the pound. They also have lunch boxes that are INSANELY affordable ($ 2.75). This includes rice, steamed cabbage, and your choice of roast pork, a whole chicken leg, or mince pork with edamame. I generally choose the cha siu because I’m always craving it and they give you a lot for your moneys worth. However, the other two is just as great. Right next to the roast meat section is a refrigerated section for prepared food with sushi, small dishes/​apps, and other food.
Yeah, I agree with other reviewers; customer service is pretty lacking here. But that just seems to be the norm in Chinatown. Just come, get your stuff, and go enjoy your food because I don’t know many places that can beat the prices here.

This food and variety store, located at 200 Canal Street between Mott and Mulberry streets, has been a Chinatown favorite since the 1970s. You can find sales people who speak English here. Reachable by the N, R or number 6 Lexington local train stopping on Canal Street, it has three floors. Downstairs are a good selection of teas and natural sweeteners, dishware, tea pots and cooking appliances, dried noodles and traditional items like incense. The main floor has dried sea foods, an herbal medicines section, including several varieties of ginsengs, aisles with lots of cooking ingredients, refrigerated fresh noodles and buns, a vegan health food section selling mushrooms, cloud ear and other fungi and a small butcher shop in the corner window selling Peking duck. I never get to the top floor to look at clothing and beauty products being too busy on the main floor buying Chinese bean-​filled buns, lotus starch, and spices. Their website
, though not representative of their wide array of foods, does offer a few items, including teas, gifts and beauty products, a caviar facial pack if you are feeling decadent.

Keep your hands on your wallets at the register and watch the screen like a hawk, the checkout ladies overcharge on items and steal change.
Got nipped for two bucks two trips back, and the last trip was charged $ 68.00 a pound for tea that costs $ 8.00 for 2ounces.
Last time I checked, 8×8=64
When the price was questioned and that the item was 8 dollars for 2 ounces, the woman became quite angry and frankly it would have been more to the point to walk out without the item, however it seems like nasty behavior on my part.
Why I be driven to be impolite over a pittance, putting the gentleman downstairs in the position of restocking goods, leaving plastic waste in my wake?
There is the old saying…
Treat some one right, they will tell all their friends.
Treat some one with disrespect, they will tell every one they can.
Wise words!

I’ve been back three times now so time to review. Like other reviews, the grocery section is small. Mostly souvenir snacks, and frozen dumplings in the back. There sauce section is good though. I buy Thom Yum Soup paste, Mapo Tofu paste, etc. here. Downstairs is filled with Japanese ceramics and pots, pans, kitchen electronics, and tea. Pretty much any non-​food thing for your kitchen. Including nice BPA-​free food containers! I will be back for the big nabe pots and bowls soon for when it gets cold! Upstairs is a Japanese-​based skin and haircare section with Sanrio and Totoro goods mixed in. Cheapest prices I have found so far for Ichikami haircare.

Basement: Sell all type of household appliances such as bowls, cups, utensils, pots, etc. and a huge selection of tea and ramen.
Ground floor: Your typical Asian supermarket but they have an area that sell cook meat that you can buy for dinner.
Second floor: All types of cute items you can imagine, beauty products, diy items, and good souvenirs.
How convenient that you can buy everything all in one place.

I came here for their beauty selection. As someone has started to delve into Asian skincare, the second floor is a gold mine. An amazing array plus testers! Of course there is a markup, but when you want instant gratification on some My Beauty Diary masks or Hada Labo products, this is probably the place to go.
There were plenty of young employees on the second floor, but they didn’t interact with me whatsoever, which I liked. I know some stores have employees that have the tendency to hover, so I appreciated being able to look at stuff with my earbuds on.
Great find and selection!

I come here just to buy the peanut cake. It is always worth the trip

Their basement is awesome. full of odds and ends.

Yuck. Photo of the guy that was cutting his nails behind the food counter while preparing meals today.

If you’re coming here for groceries, New Kam Man is really bleh. The stock is dusty and their meat and fresh produce is just depressing. The roasted BBQ pork here is decent, though they only sell the meat and not rice boxes to go. Guess that means I’m looking elsewhere for a quick dinner to take home :(
If your’e coming here for their beauty section on the second floor, this is the motherlode. Their stock of Japanese beauty products is un-​freaking-​real, and though their prices can be all over the place, there’s no other location in Chinatown where they have just about everything you want in one place.
I come here often for the boxes of My Beauty Diary masks, which are perpetually on sale at $ 13/​box, and occasionally for the mascara and eyeliner (K-​Palette! Dolly Wink! Heroine Make!) which puts Sephora to shame. They also carry everything Hada Labo and Kose at prices which are slightly more expensive than what you can find at other Japanese supermarkets in the area.

Giving this place a 3.5 stars rating.
I got star folding paper and tweezers for $ 1.95…what a steal! Anyone who plucks hair/​anything knows that tweezers are expensive… especially decent to good tweezers! When I saw these cute animal/​cartoony tweezers for $ 1.95, it was very exciting (yes, the tweezers are great)! This market also carries different flavors of Kit Kat (green tea, strawberry, & vanilla ice cream)! I’ve only seen green tea in select Asian markets… never other flavors! The prices for the Kit Kat are decent, it was $ 6.95 for the vanilla & strawberry flavors. The green tea Kit Kit was priced at $ 7.95 though.
There’s 3 floors to this establishment. The entrance floor (middle) is where you would shop for your edibles and there’s a small food court to the left towards the back. The upstairs is filled with Asian beauty products/​tools, toys, and crafts, and other miscellaneous items. The lower floor (basement) is filled with bowls, tea sets, knifes, utensils, and other kitchenware.

I love this place. Not only is the upstairs with all the cosmetics amazing, but they have delicious sushi. For 8 $, you can get a huge plate of very fresh salmon sashimi, sushi, and a roll. It’s enough for two people and some of my favorite sushi in the city. The basement has kitchen supplies and very cute bowls/​plates/​cups.

New Kam Man is a mixed bag. They have a nice assortment of groceries on the first floor (along with stations to buy roast duck, pig, chicken and a separate noodle bar); they have a huge selection of kitchenware in the basement and I have heard they have beauty products upstairs (but I don’t need help there ;-)
The market is pretty clean and people tend to be friendly but… Prices are a bit high for Chinatown and the cha sui (barbecued pork) I bought (sorry again Rabbi… I’m weak) was both fatty and a bit dry. Also I found part of a bone in my take out ½ pound… not a good bonus! I also should note that while other places such as Wah Fung include the tax in the price, here they add it on at the end.
So overall 3 to 3.5 stars!

This review is for the Noodle/​Sushi bar inside of this establishment-​Kam Man Hibachi. I ordered the Party Tray Sushi and was truly disappointed. WARNING… stay away from the sushi and don’t embarrass yourself by ordering these trays for a gathering. Rice was dry. Certain sushi pieces tasted funky and too chewy. I question whether the fish is sushi grade. At first glance, you would be happy at the large sushi pieces. However, once you take your first bite, the excitement quickly wears off. I threw half the tray away. I know… shocking since I love sushi.
I can’t speak about the rest of the food offered, but it looked like the cooked food is ok since there were many sitting at the counter eating.

I love to experiment in the kitchen, and New Kam Man is THE place to go if you’re looking for ingredients for various cuisines of Chinese cooking.
I’m making Vermont maple syrup-​glazed fall «vegetabelly» buns for an upcoming dinner party. New Kam Man sells a 12-​pack of bao for $ 2.95!

I don’t think it’s totally unreasonable for me to expect meat and produce at a supermarket, especially in Chinatown. So when I popped in for some dinner shopping, I was pretty disappointed. Maybe my opinion of the place would’ve been better if I were there shopping for more dry foods, packaged items, or beauty products, but alas, I was not.
However, I will give the basement 4 stars for it’s vast selection of cookware and dinnerware. Whether you’re looking for some dinnerware for yourself or gifting, their selection’s beautiful. Options range from the simple to ornate. Definitely check it out.

They had a sale for the sashimi pizza, only cost $ 5.99 rather than the usual $ 8 something. The pizza was pretty good, though it’s the first time I’ve heard of this kind of fusion food.
They used a thin fried bread as the base of the pie. It was heaped with lots of avocado slices (and avocados aren’t cheap these days) as well as mangos, ginger, imitation crab, and small pieces of raw tuna and salmon. It was drizzled in different Asian sauces. The entire pizza was placed on a bed of shredded lettuce and carrots. It also comes with a separate tray with soy sauce, wasabi, and ginger.
The food was very good, but the guy who took my order was pretty terrible. Hence three stars rather than four.

So many things I want but don’t need.
Mainly I recommend getting sauces and stuff here.
And often getting an impulse order of a pound of roast pork at the front. Best I’ve had.

Specifically came here to find Chinese wedding ceremony tea sets, and they have it on the lower floor! Thanks to friend and fellow Unilocaler, Chun L. for tipping me off about it. Not only do they have these wedding tea sets which are ridiculously hard to find ANYWHERE (even on ebay, amazon & easy), but they have a wide range of Asian foods — fresh and packaged from meat and veggies to frozen dumplings to candy and cookies of all sorts. This is a really fun store to peruse and you will definitely leave with some goodies in tow. If not for the foodstuffs, then for the housewares or the Hello Kitty swag. I didn’t have time to go upstairs but the view from below was a glorious halo of pink and I really wanted to check it out. Thankfully, New Kam Man is easily accessible via subway as it is located in the heart of Chinatown. This supermarket is a little bit of a mecca, do not miss it!