Vinh Hung Supermarket

This review goes out to the lady at the check stand. I do not know her name but she is the sweetest lady ever. Every time I go there with either my mom, grandma, or aunts she’s just so welcoming and she’s always happy to see us. I really don’t expect excellent customer service from the people who work here. It’s totally different and understandable on my part.
I cannot say this place smells weird to me. It doesn’t have a strong bad smell like Seafood City. So good job guys. Place is always organized, they always have what I need. If momma loves this place, so do I.

I love having this supermarket as an option, living in Mira Mesa. The produce is noticeably cheaper than any chain supermarket. Green onions, 69 cents, cilantro, 39 cents, 3 lbs of chicken breast, about $ 5, too much ginger for once household, 59 cents, just to name a few prices that I can remember off the top of my head.
If you’re making a new Asian dish that you found online, you will be able to find all the ingredients you need here and at a reasonable price. Fish sauce, rice noodles, rice paper, bean sprouts, various Asian snacks and drinks. can all be found here.
If you’re not accustomed to Vietnamese/​Asian culture and food, you will probably be overwhelmed and uncomfortable. But if that’s the case you should probably just learn to expand your horizon. The people behind the meat counter don’t talk very much but the cashiers are always smiling and friendly. I always leave happy!

This place was alright. Didn’t have any problems with the service there, like some other Unilocal reviewers posted in the past. They opened up a new checkstand for me.
They have southeast Asian ingredients galore. Better selection than ranch 99 in this department. However, I was looking for fresh galangal and fresh lime leaves and they didn’t have any this time. Had to make a trip to ranch 99 anyways. Frozen shrimp were good and the meat/​fish section smelled very clean.

I always find new stuff every time I go in. Their kitchenware area always has great deals and useful things. Their produce is good and inexpensive. The little odd shops off in a corridor are hit and miss… but sometimes baked goods are fresh out the oven. Most of their prepackaged foods and sauces are much less expensive than in other stores. VERY CONVENIENT LOCATION!
I’ve never had a problem with the people who work there and I am not Asian. Perhaps reviewers are expecting too much. Actually, I’m usually treated much more rudely at Vons.

hmm. i have read some pretty nasty reviews here and a lot of them seem to be centered on not understanding that this is a southeast asian market. not a generic asian market. if you want more chinese/​taiwanese ingredients, go to 99 ranch. if you want japanese, head to mitsuwa. korean? Zion market. Filipino? seafood city. i’m just giving examples so don’t roast me for not highlighting your favorite ethnic market.
that being said, this is a GREAT southeast asian market. i caught no attitude for being non asian but then again i don’t ask stupid questions. if you’re looking for something particular and don’t speak Vietnamese, Lao, Thai etc, then just look up a picture on your smartphone and show it to an employee. if they have it they’ll show it to you.
i found super fresh ingredients here. the produce was great quality and it didn’t look like it was from the same supplier as other asian markets. i could be very wrong but the tags were different.
the HUGE plus for me was that had the biggest and freshest pieces of Galanga i have ever seen. they weren’t pre packaged either! it looked like someone grew them locally.
anyways, as i said before if you are looking for southeast asian ingredients, this place is awesome. lots of brands that i hadn’t seen at vien dong too.

The attitude is a deal-​breaker. Blame it on their culture if you want, but in MY culture, you don’t hang up on people just because they’re non-​Asian. I’m more than willing to work around the fact that my Vietnamese really sucks, but apparently they are not.
I’m ONLY giving them the second star because I believe the other reviews claiming that they have great Asian products.

It is embarrassing to read the 1 star reviews of this place based upon the behavior of the people who run the place. The embarrassment is for the reviewers who don’t have a clue about the culture or the background of the people running the store. I sense that most are not that fluent in English or the natural banter you get at Safeway. Don’t expect these people to say, «How is your day going so far?» and flash a cheery smile. I was over at the fish market admiring such a wide selection of fresh fish on ice — the fish guy came out and was looking at me, waiting for me to select a fish — he didn’t say anything, but had that expressionless look on his face and probably wondered why anyone would come into the store to just look at all the fish for sale and not buy any of them. This did not bother me. He looked a lot like my wife’s uncle who was a fishmonger and oddly enough, looked a lot like the dead fish he took care of. He was one of my favorites of her side of the family though because he was always laughing and smiling — but he wasn’t that way when he was «working the fish».
This is the most amazing collection of Vietnamese food and cooking supply I have ever seen! They seem to have every possible animal with every possible part you could dream of cooking. Do you like beef tendon soup? (Try finding beef tendons at Safeway.) Want to make blood soups? They got varieties of blood in tubs for that purpose. Like shrimp? I never saw so many different types in one place. Condiments? Makes me dizzy to try and read them all — and they also have a nice supply of kimchi, pickled peppers, preserved mustard greens, dried mushrooms and all manner of spices and grains. One section also had something made locally and packaged so you could steam it called «Meat loaf» — I think it was that spicy pork that Vietnamese slice and put on sandwiches. They had a whole section 20′ long full of these types of meats.
I came here to get simple ingredients to make congee and do a recon of this store. I expected a small «mom-n’pop» place but was treated to a big supermarket. The vegetable section was beautiful — full of all the difficult to get asian vegetables — taro root, dao gok, lemon grass and many other items that I could not identify.
They also have lots of different drinks which I avoided since I was doing a 2 mile walk and didn’t want to carry 10 pounds of drinks in my pack — but they had odd looking drinks from all over south east asia.
Within the market is a section where you can buy Chinese food to go. That review is here:

Very rude people. People couldn’t help me and the this lady did (: sadly she was very rude. She didn’t know her name? Then she spoke no English. Then she was deaf? I guess she was blind? No good service. Tip of the day brush your grill. And next time if you play along that you don’t speak English follow thru. Great English by the way

Vinh Hung is a small market but packed with many Asian products. This market is a one-​stop shop for all ingredients to cook Vietnamese and Thai food. They have aisles of authentic Asian products for a reasonable price including all sauces, rice paper, noodles, spices, curry pastes, and coconut milk. Their produce section is small but has a nice selection of fresh vegetables and fruit. They have fresh basil and chilies for half the price of American markets! They also have a full meat section which I have not checked out yet. You can also buy Asian bowls, plates, chopsticks and hot pots.
I agree that their priority is not customer service but that seems to be the theme of Asian markets. Also, they need to open more cash registers when there is a line of 10 people forming.

OH WOW!!! soo I called trying to get a sunhat and she hung up on me so I called back and she rudely says,“I no have here” and hangs up again. I might go in just to see because she didn’t sound like she knew what I was talking about.

I have a soft spot for this place. It reminds me of those open-​roof markets in Vietnam. The staffs could give two shits about you. And honestly, that’s normal. Asian markets aren’t known for customer service — so don’t expect the cashier to walk you to an aisle to show you where things are, or have an employee greet you or constantly checks up on you with «how are you doing over here?!» Compared to Zion and 99 ranch in Clairemont, this place is a jewel. It is less crowded and smaller — but the selections are still great. They have cheap snacks and already made food/​sweet goods. I don’t know why some people find this place to be «dirty». But it’s really clean whenever I come– and I come here A LOT. Probably at least three times a week since my favorite restaurant is hidden within this market (Song Huong). The vegetable area is possibly THE CLEANEST vegetable aisle I’ve ever seen. Even cleaner than target’s. They also have a lot of hard-​to-​find Vietnamese goodies like the banh bia sau rieng, keo me, dau phong rang duong. Love this place ! I challenge you to try some of the cheap snacks here (you can find them on the left aisle when you walk in)

I come here for my Asian cooking spices and love how cheap it is.
But, I can’t stand how rude this old cashier lady is. This lady literally threw our bags with stuffs in our cart and threw the receipt at me.
If you don’t like your job, you honestly shouldn’t be working at the store.
To disrespect your customers is a big no.
Shouldn’t even deserve one star.

When I was younger and first started coming here the workers were very rude. But now that I come here more often and the workers know that I can understand and speak Vietnamese I am treated better.
I come here often when I stop by Circle K right next door. Almost everything «Asian» related is much more cheaper here than at target.
One thing that I have realized that is that they do not sell the whole racks of water but only in singles.
If you’re hungry and don’t want to drive all the way to Convoy for dim sum there is a small restaurant joint at the hip with delicious Chinese food.

If you need any meat cut after 7:30 PM don’t bother getting it here. Came here with a friend when we needed some sliced beef for spring rolls the butcher said they already cleaned up the carver, etc. It’s a very small market and very obviously a local business. Reminds me of the supermarkets back in San Gabriel Valley. Kinda find this place not as clean and odd set up but it serves it purpose. They seem to have an extensive aisle for cookware which I thought was interesting.

Too bad there is no option for 0 stars.
Service is horrible here. Went to pay for my item with my debit card. Lady at the register ran my card and amran it as credit. I told her debit clearly and she said she couldnt run it as debit so she hit credit. She called one of her coworkers over to «void» the transaction so i ended up having to pay for the item with cash.
they go as to provide me with a written receipt stating it was voided. I checked my online statement and saw that it was deducted from my account immediately.
I ended up getting double charged. So I was like hecks no! If it was voided it would have showed up on my account already. So I ended up paying double for one item.
So i walk back inside, one of the other ladies was rude to me and yelled at me to go to the other register next to here for help.
No one was there and when i went back to talk to her, she was rude and had people go in front of me to get rung up when line was empty like 3 seconds prior to me checking for help.
I was there before and i get threw to the side being ignored. Plus on top of that I was being yelled at and was treated rudely for no reason.
Then one of the other ladies came back all defensive at me and I was like «Its not my fault that I was double charged and no one is nice enough to help»
Needless to say after giving me a whole bunch of reasons why they couldn’t get it fixed, im sitting here robbed of my money.
Not going back here because the people are rude and dont give a damn about customers.
If you’re in the area go to Seafood City, Lucky Seafood or H-​mart. They usually have the same products if not more. Plus their produce and meats are way fresher than this place, not no week old frozen and defrosted recycled products. Plus all the other stores are clean and smell way better than this place, unless you want to eat from a store where flies are flying all over your food.

This supermarket truly has everything.
They have everything that a normal Asian grocery store would have, but they also have a section of cooking utensils! They also have a large selection of sauces, drinks, and fish.
All of the staff here is friendly and it is always clean.
I would recommend it any anyone in the area.

Good price on the coconut water and I’m happy to be able to purchase a lot of the Asian goods I grew up with/​have tried in the Philippines, but I just really dislike how rude the cashiers can be. I’d rather take my business elsewhere and I will from now on.

This is a pretty decent Asian supermarket, for my purposes at least. The sea food and meat section is really great and I am a regular fish buyer at this place. Yes, this place sells fish, so it smells, not unusual for a place that sells fish (sorry about the tongue twister, I swear the smell didn’t impair my senses in any way). Their sea food selection is pretty good and fresh and they even get live craw fish once a while, in case you’re interested in munching on them little critters (cooked, of course!).
The produce section is very nice and they carry pretty much every popular (Asian) vegetable there which is always a huge relief for the missus. I haven’t tried their food court and I don’t think I will, but I’ll keep going back for their grocery, meats and fish and may be one day I’ll change my mind (who knows!).
California lottery website lists this place as one of the luckiest place in San Diego to buy a lottery ticket. Of course that’s NOT how I found this place, but I haven’t have any luck so far. Oh well !!

Haha, someone said this place looks like a movie theater… well reviewers be prepared for your minds to be blown… it was. Back in the 90’s it used to be Edwards 4? 6? 8? Something like that. So nostalgic… I’d come here with my older sister after school to play a Bust-​A-​Move arcade game upstairs. Anyways, this isn’t a review on my childhood.
I come here quite often because it’s the closest Asian supermarket to where I currently live. What’s so great about Asian markets? Primarily produce is what I come here for. I am becoming more and more of an organic nut, and while I do get my organics elsewhere, and trust me I do, where do you suppose I’d be able to find some ORGANIC daikon? or some ORGANIC patola vegetables? I’m sure it’s organically produced and sold somewhere, but I ain’t too Nazi bout that organic life!
Other than that, it’s your basic run down Asian supermarket. I do love Hong Kong BBQ and Dimsum inside! I’ve never sat down to eat, only take out. This is my go to restaurant for salt and pepper chicken wings when national city is too far for my lazy az to travel. Good stuff man.

Not bad. I’m just reviewing the restaurant for dim sum. Honestly not bad! Cheap and some were great, others were a little cold!
All in all, not a horrible option if I’m in the area.