Double Dragon Foods

Great place for meats, seafood, fresh vegetables and herbs, rice, and hard to find Asian ingredients. Not so great for packaged non-​Asian foods, dairy, or steak cuts you recognize. For example, if you know what a whole beef knuckle is, this is a good place to get one to butcher at home. (It’s not really a knuckle.) If you are looking for a T-​bone or a strip steak, it’s not your place unless maybe you can get a butcher to cut one for you. They do have butchers, which is a BIG plus in the age of butcher = guy who merchandises stuff that’s already been cut somewhere else.
Meat, seafood, and most veg prices are significantly cheaper and of better quality than a supermarket.
I do think Sun Foods on Uni has a better selection (they are still my go-​to for fresh kale when I want to make dirt juice) and advantage of the summer market in the parking lot but Double Dragon is quite good.
Not so hot on their deli myself. I may try that $ 1 trick another reviewer posted some time.
If you can go in the morning or midday, it’s much easier. After working hours lines get very long and it becomes impossible to find a parking space.

Why would you want to spend more money at Whole Foods or Cub produce when it is CHEAPER here?! This is my to go place for cheap fruits and vegetables. You just have to wash the produce again because sometimes they don’t really clean it well. I like getting shrimp, fish, and other seafood meat here because they are inexpensive. I believe they have live lobster here too (or maybe at the other location, Dragon Star).
There’s a deli inside. They have variety of selections of ethnic food: fried plantains, sesame balls, fried tilapia, pad thai, soup, and selections of stir-​fry. (ok, I am going to tell you something about the deli… make sure you take notes… around 6:30 they mark their deli food down to $ 1! Let’s say you arrive at 6 and you really want the fried tilapia, sausages, sesame balls or etc and they are still marked regular prices… grab them! Go shop or walk around the store until 6:30 and come back to the deli till you see a lady with a price gun and have her adjusted your price:))
Here are couple warnings when you come here, when you buy canned products make sure you check the expirations. There are a lot of them that I found on my canned coconut drinks :(This place is not well organized, a lot of products are everywhere. You will spend a lot of time looking for a certain product. Parking is kinda scary, aggresive drivers/​customers. If you have a nice car, park far. well not too far because it is not located in the greatest neighborhood. Just come with a friend with a crappy car:)
I almost forgot to mention… they sell jewelries too. I haven’t checked it out yet. Next time…

Looking for food on Christmas day? We were going down Rice Street, hoping to find a Chinese restaurant just like the people on TV. We passed several Chinese restaurants on Rice, and every one of them was closed. (Once again, real life is not like on TV.) But then, at Rice and Maryland we saw a crowded parking lot with people milling about. Double Dragon Foods has a deli with a variety of choices from fried plantain and fried tilapia for those who want ethnic food, to fried chicken for those who don’t. For Christmas lunch we had pad thai, a Chinese broccoli and pork dish, and another dish with baby corn, carrots, and chicken. (There were no labels on the food, and the person behind the counter spoke limited English.) For $ 12 we had quite a feast for two, and plenty of leftovers. The food was solidly good. There was a little cartilage in the pork broccoli dish, but they made an effort to pack as much food as possible into the containers. This place gets an extra star because they were open on a holiday, and seemed to have a strong community following. Some workers were shaving papaya, presumably for salad, so it appears they make the food on-​site. The grocery aisles were stocked with foods catering to a variety of ethnic communities, not just Southeast Asian.
Double Dragon turned out to be a much better value in terms of cost and nutrition over Mickey D’s down the street, which is also open Christmas day this year. It was also a more interesting shopping experience than getting Chinese takeout. The sign by the deli announced that they are also open on New Year’s day, so I might head back there next week to try the curries and sesame balls. Thank you, Double Dragon, for helping me experience Christmas almost like on TV!