Wang Chung Company

Is your ramen cupboard empty?
Craving this after a ridonkulous Saturday attempt at trying the offerings at the ramen festival, I stopped here to recreate my own sampling.
Nissin Brand is one of the early birds in this 40+ year market in the U.S. To keep up with the growing competition, they came out with several soup base flavors for the changing consumer palate. Here, I purchased three packs for $ 1.65, a bargain when compared to the $ 8.00 per bowl offerings on Post St.
This store, as mentioned by Vicky L., roasts their own peanuts in olive and garlic flavors. Not many stores still do this. They also have a full variety of Chinese cooking sauces, condiments, and dried vegetables and herbs for those stir fry dishes. They even carry Yank Sing’s famed XO sauce here. They are closed for a few weeks as the owners are vacationing for a week or two.
Guess I’ll have to buy my ramen or bags of chips somewhere else for a little while.

Tucked in the middle of bustling Washington St. in the middle of Chinatown is Wang Chung, a seemingly innocent grocery store with standard Chinese foods (dried shrimp, 1000-​year-​old egg, and cooking sauces. They also have snacks, like gummies, cookies and dried goods (read: instant noodles).
BUT. they have a secret deadly weapon. At least according to my family, that is.
Peanuts.
Yes, you read that correctly. Sitting at the cash register is a jar of specially-​flavored peanuts (in Cantonese it’s called «nam yue»). It’s $ 5/​lb., and every time I visit my family, they ask me to bring home about 10 lbs of it. Good thing they’re FAA-​approved.
Don’t expect service with a smile (unless you speak Chinese, of course). Get in, get your lap cheong, peanuts, and go.