Mingala International Market

very good jolly behaviour from the burmese owner! awesome quality n best priced hilsa fish and other sweet water fishes from india n bangladesh are available!

Awesome market! Had a combination of Thai, Indian and southeast Asian ingredients. Bought ingredients for a Burmese fermented tea leaf salad. Lots of hard to find ingredients and a decent little grocery section. Found galangal, turmeric, and other goodies. Worth the trek if you don’t want to head to H-​mart or Tualatin.

Great little neighborhood market stocked to the brim with Indian, Burmese, and Thai treats.
My favorite things to stock up on are frozen garlic naan, dried lentils and garbanzo beans, a variety of instant teas/​coffees, ramen, and a variety of canned drinks (coconut, mango, real sugar coke, etc).
The service is always friendly and helpful and I love supporting this little local business. The first time you visit, make sure you take time to browse the whole store as you never know what you might find.
Willamette Week did a write up on them last year and here’s what they had to say:
«Myanmar native Yusuf Iqbal and his partners had trouble finding many of the ingredients they needed for Burmese home cooking. So they opened a small market in an outer-​Southeast strip mall less than a year ago, stocking it with everything from dried betel leaves and ngapi fish pastes to fried bean snacks. Within a month, their Indian, Thai and Pacific Islander neighbors were clamoring for the international quickie mart to stock their own homelands’ goodies. It did, and now Mingala has arguably the most eclectic, well-​priced selection of Indian and East Asian goods on Portland’s east side, including a rainbow of dirt-​cheap lentils, very fresh spices, desi snacks, and frozen shrimp and fish. Plus, Iqbal runs his own impressive halal, cut-​to-​order meat operation sourced from local cows and goats in the back of the shop. „From A-​to-​Z, we do it,“ he says proudly, opening a huge walk-​in fridge to show off an entire half of a cow hanging from a meat hook. „We look at the animal, if we like it, we slaughter it ourselves [at a USDA facility], butcher it and custom-​cut it for you.“ Beat that, 7-​Eleven. KC.
Shopping list: Dried lily bulbs, mango pickles, frozen samosas, custom-​cut beef ($ 3.99 a pound).»