Tan Tin-Hung Supermarket

All the essential Asian ingredients you need in NY. SMALL but yet it has all the brands you need coming from 626 San Gabriel, CA

I love having a Vietnamese shop in the neighborhood! They have everything from sesame crackers, rice paper and tons of different kinds of flour.

Giving it 5 stars because it is practically the only place in the whole city where I could find vietnamese products such as cha gio, banh tet, or nem chua!
They are cash only.

Always nice to have another option for a Asian supermarket. For most packaged items, the prices are more or less the same as Hong Kong Supermarket and just a hair above Po Wing Hong. Some things here are worth coming for though, like the Maesri thai curry pastes, which have greater variety and are cheaper than other places in the area ($ 1.15). This place also has tiny 5.5-ounce cans of coconut milk for $ 0.85, which are great for South Indian curries which use a bit of coconut milk but don’t require the whole can (or several) like most Thai curries. Paying a bit more per unit is better than buying a regular can for $ 1.30 and not knowing what to do with the rest of it (which spoils in a week after being opened). They also have a good selection of Vietnamese jackfruit/​taro chips. The one reason why I don’t come here more often is that it’s cash only.

Only place in Manhattan I’ve been able to find featherback fish paste (1 lb for $ 3!). Used it to make tod man pla, with great results. Will come back even just for that!

Been coming here with my grandparents to do grocery shopping since I was little. My parents always come here to look and buy items to make Vietnamese dishes at home.
They don’t only sell Vietnamese items, but that’s the majority. The ladies working the cash registers also speak Vietnamese and they are friendly!
Not the biggest supermarket but they are well stocked. Some of their items are more expensive compared to other supermarkets in the area.
There is a bathroom here. Just ask one of the lady working behind the cash register for the key. The bathroom is located all the way in the back, in the left corner.
Always bring back nostalgic memories whenever I come here.

One of very few Vietnamese groceries left in Manhattan’s Chinatown at all, and certainly the largest and best-​stocked. (As someone else mentioned, it’s not a «typical Chinatown grocery store» nor by any means «pan Asian», though they do carry some Chinese and Thai products.)
For Nini B., they do in fact carry pâté, both in the freezers and the refrigerated cases. They also have frozen pre-​prepared (raw) nem nuong meat, which I find really convenient, if maybe not quite as good as completely homemade. It and Ken Hing around the corner are the only places I know of in Chinatown that still sell specifically Vietnamese herbs like rau ram, ngo om, and diep ca, as well as the more commonly available Asian basil, mint and bird chiles, and the ngo gai which you can also find in some Latin American markets under the name culantro (with a «u», not an «i»). Plus a wide variety of jarred and bottled condiments and seasonings you don’t usually see in Chinese or pan-​Asian stores. They even carry Red Boat fish sauce at a reasonable price. I’ve never seen it anywhere else in Chinatown, and «American» stores generally mark it up to unconscionably high prices. Their prices are, in general, quite good.
Someone else wrote that they found it «Westerner-​hostile», but quite the opposite has been my experience in the 25 years I’ve been shopping there regularly. At least a couple of the managerial-​types speak excellent English and by now, most of the cashiers’ English has become quite good, too. (Yes, they’re mostly the same cashiers all these years!) I don’t speak a word of Vietnamese, but they’ve always been invariably friendly and helpful. No, there may not be much signage in English, but they don’t get that many English-​only customers, so why should they bother? (And in any event, Vietnamese is written in the Roman alphabet, so how hard would it be to learn the names of the products you’re looking for, or even just copy them onto your shopping list, even if you can’t pronounce them properly? It takes two to tango, after all.)
Fwiw, I’ve always pretty much ignored the produce out front. It’s nothing to write home about, and I usually find better stuff elsewhere, at similar prices.

This is my go to place for any and all of my vietnamese grocery needs in Manhattan (and possibly in the entire city).
They carry plenty of frozen cha (fish paste), nem chua (sour vietnamese sausage), lap xuong (chinese sausage, & my fav brand from California), banh trang (rice paper), and other great pantry staples. There is che near the cashier, too.
Around new year this is also THE spot for vietnamese to get their new year candies, banh chung, and banh tet. Though the quality to me is standard compared to what I can find in California, it’s nice to have a place to buy it all out here.
The store is pretty tight and sometimes the produce doesn’t look at its prime. But it is cheap nonetheless and the cashiers are always so sweet.
Check it out if you’re in need of some nuoc mam (fish sauce)!

One word: Cheap! The 28 oz. Sriracha sauce from Tan Tin Hung costs $ 2.80. At my neighborhood Chinese market: $ 3.50. At neighborhood market in Bed-​Stuy: more than $ 5. Just look at the price tags on the pictures I posted and see for yourself. If you find other places that have cheaper prices, I would like to know :) Note: I took those pictures prices in Nov. 2014.

Tan Tin-​Hung Supermarket is a legitimate Vietnamese (mostly)/South Asian supermarket. You can find things here that you wouldn’t be able to find at any of the other supermarkets around the Chinatown area.
5 stars for TTHS for being literally the only place I’ve been able to find authentic Vietnamese desserts (che), but 3 stars for the actual taste of the desserts.
You can find these little plastic containers of Vietnamese desserts (shipped in daily, I believe) towards the front of the store near the register. I walked around the whole store thinking they would be in a cooler or something. Thanks to a prior reviewer that mentioned being able to find the ‘Che’ here! They are around $ 1.75 each and there’s a decent variety of them. I went on a Sunday evening and there were maybe 5 different kinds to choose from. The lady behind the register mentioned that there is usually a lot more, but since I came at the end of the night, there were less. Too bad I can’t get there during the day.
I don’t know the actual names of these things since I’m not Vietnamese, but I’ve had many experiences with all sorts of these desserts back home in Atlanta, where there’s Vietnamese cuisine aplenty. I had the pandan/​mung bean «dumpling» covered in coconut milk as well as the taro/​sweet rice (w/​coconut milk). The milk texture was weird and gelatinous and neither of the desserts was sweet enough… to the point where there was almost no taste, especially in the dumplings. It just wasn’t as satisfying as I was expecting it to be… maybe an off night?
Anyway, you should give these desserts a try — I can’t find any restaurants or any other supermarkets that carry them. Maybe I’ll stop by a banh mi place and see if they have any in the cooler.

Fruits are fresh but overall not great quality. With a party of two, we purchased eight large oranges for $ 5.00. No further comment ado.

for those uninitiated to asian cuisine, this small store looks like a private museum consisting of ginseng or mushroom varieties.
worse is the store attitude on gaijin by offering few english signs, and selling imported products with no english descriptive stickers. ordinarily I would not have the patience for such a westerner hostile place, till I noticed how good prices were on a few items, so I stayed and looked more closely.
I ended up buying various dry beans, loose teas, and some mid range price dry mushroom (don’t get the cheapest stuff as it has texture but no flavor). I have since tried all my purchases with pleasant results. I hope to return to Tan’s once I’m better educated on a wider variety of Vietnamese ingredients.
2015 suggestion: clear out half the mushrooms and ginger, and make room for many direct import carefully selected Vietnamese consumer products the other Asian stores won’t shelve because they don’t want Vietnamese brands competing with Chinese or Korean.

As a Vietnamese person, I just need to say that this is a VIETNAMESE grocery store — not generic «Southeast Asian» or even «Pan-​Asian-​Chinese» as some other reviewers have stated. Yeesh.
That being said, they have a pretty decent selection of Vietnamese products that I really can’t find at a Chinese, Japanese or any other «Pan Asian» generic grocers. The only thing that would really impress me is if they started stocking some Vietnamese pâté!

Came in here today to get thai basil. I grabbed a prepackaged bag, took it to one of the cashier ladies and asked how much it was. She replied «$ 1.75». I gave her $ 1.80 expecting a nickel back, but she just closed the register and gave me a blank stare as if daring me to bring up the nickel. Hahahah! Such pluck! Her poker face was totally classic and completely did me in; I left the store giggling. Highlight of my afternoon!
The thai basil was super fresh, by the way.

This place kicks ass for a quick find everything you need Pan Asian-​Chinese-​American, I especially like the option of the pre fried tofu cubes in a bag in the refrigerated area!

Love this place, has all the Vietnamese brands and ingredients you need including Mely soy sauce and mi Hao Hao. Also carries traditional snacks.

Typical Chinatown grocery that happens to have a great selection of Southeast Asian products. You can get your Thai curry paste here for half the price of Whole Foods. If you’re cooking vegetarian and need some seitan they have it for half the Whole Foods price as well.
This place looks completely unremarkable from the outside, but it’s very good to know about if you like cooking Southeast Asian dishes at home. I do, so it hit this little grocery pretty often.

Amazing place for anything Vietnamese.
They also carry Nuoc Cham (fish sauce) from Vietnam, the very tasty Red Boat, (500ml for $ 8.25 vs. $ 12.99 for 250ml at Kalustyan’s), and another quite decent one I can’t recall the brand of for about 3 bucks. Very good stuff and a big step up from the Thai ones.

I highly recommend Tan Tin Hung for all of your Vietnamese cooking needs. Their prices are reasonable and you can get just about anything to whip up a Vietnamese dish.
Their che (Vietnamese dessert) selection is by far more than any other establishments in Manhattan. My favorite is the Che Xoi Nuoc. It reminds me of home.
The cashiers are always eager to ring you up. They are friendly and service is somewhat speedy. There is usually a man standing in front of the cashiers directing traffic. It can get pretty crowded and chaotic when it’s a full house.
Remember to stock up on your Vietnamese ingredients prior to the Lunar New Year because Tan Tin Hung closes for almost a week at the onset of the holiday.

Unlike Chi N., below — I have absolutely no idea how to cook Asian food. The closest I’ve managed was Thai Green Curry Fish, a dish suited for the Helen Keller School of Culinary Arts. I have a great appreciation for this Chinatown grocer, nonetheless.
Unlike one of its neighbors down the street (who’s name and exact location I repressed after witnessing a rat jump out of a box of ramen), Tan Tin-​Hung remains somewhat tidy. It’s the only place in the city that I’ve found to carry freshly made Khao Phoht Piak — a Thai dessert made with tapioca, sweet corn and coconut milk. If you don’t mind the consistency of caviar, I’d highly recommend it.
Broad selection of noodles, grass jelly /​congee drinks, spices, and cashiers who would clearly prefer catering to an entirely Asian clientele.