Wai Yee Hong Chinese Supermarket

A wonderful place to visit the people are very friendly, warm and helpful every time. An amazing range of products couldn’t ask for anything better, I visit every time I am in the Bristol.

A paradise of Chinese shopping, this supermarket contains just about everything oriental you could ever want. It’s not just restricted to Chinese produce either, this is a whole pan-​Asian experience.
The other glorious thing is that it’s all so damn cheap. Even if you’re not exclusively seeking oriental ingredients, you can pick up useful basics at a respectable price indeed.
It’s a little way out of the city and not particularly close to any train station (regrettably), however it does neighbour the Eastville retail lot containing an enormous and very, very cheap Tesco. So if you’re after good value eats, make sure you head way out East.

This is a proper, big Chinese supermarket — on an entirely different scale to the smaller but perhaps more conveniently located Kin Yip Hon Supermarket in the city centre. Wai Yee Hong has proper trolleys, and several long aisles of food — including a substantial refrigerated aisle, a good range of fresh fruit and vegetables, and an extensive frozen food section.
Ironically, I shop at this place mainly for Japanese sushi ingredients — since coneniently they sell all the stuff that can be hard to get hold of in standard British supermarkets: rice wine vinegar, sushi nori seaweed, mirin, pickled ginger, wasabi and huge bags of cheap chopsticks.
Alongside the wide array of Chinese foods (including one of my favourites: Mochi sweet rice cakes with red bean paste filling), you can also find lots of Indonesian and Thai ingredients — from common curry pastes for Thai green and red curries through to authentic Thai nam pla (fish sauce), and favourite Thai ‘corner shop’ snacks such as little tins of wasabi peas or nuts with a coconut flavoured coating. Upstairs, there’s a smaller shop selling Chinese crockery as well as a big, opulent Chinese restaurant.
Although this supermarket is miles away from where I live, I’ll happily travel to interesting food shops like this. Highly recommended for fans of Asian cuisine hunting out hard-​to-​find ingredients!

I have driven past this place countless times and I’ve always been really intrigued to go in and check it out, having never been to a Chinese supermarket, and the other day I thought it was about time I did exactly this!
The supermarket pretty much sells everything Chinese, and believe me there is a lot on offer! If you don’t mind spending a while on each product looking for the English small print to try and understand what you’re holding then I’d recommend going along, especially if you’re into your Chinese food! This is the kind of place that’s brilliant for getting specific ingredients that you wouldn’t be able to pick up from Tesco, and if you fancy cooking an authentic Chinese meal then bring along the recipe and no doubt you will be able to find everything you need here! I didn’t come prepared to buy so I came away with just some noodles and an interesting looking dessert, but I’d really like to give the cooking a go so might return with an ingredients list!
In terms of location its literally a walk around the corner from tescos, so you could get all your standard food from there and then pop round to Wai Yee Hong to add a bit of fusion to your shopping bags — they also have an online shopping facility which you might find handy. Another thing I always notice is that they have a big market section outside for market stalls, however I’ve never seen them open — but it might be worth checking out when this goes on!

Like Kin Yip Hon’s chinese supermarket (see previous review) Wai Yee Hong is a stupendous supplier of all things chinese! From easter Drinks (get yourself loaded up on Saki) to Wok’s of all shapes and sizes, and I haven’t even mentioned the food yet!
But before I get to the food, for those who prefer the eastern methods of healing to our bog-​standard western approaches there is a great selection of tonics, and general ‘wellbeing’ herbs and tonic type things (it’s all very precise with me!)
And now the food!
Well, in a nutshell… to much to comprehend! I never thought I would see so much foriegn writing in one dose in my life, make sure you know what you are after, and check before you but (even though there are guidlines it might not be quite what you were hoping for)

As somebody who likes to cook this place couldn’t be better. They have a fantastic range of oriental kitchen utensils that I love (got a great wok from here about a year ago). Plus, the food is awesome as are the prices. A real bargain in comparison with the high street supermarkets.
The place itself is huge and very well planned out so you can usually find exactly what you’re looking for very easily, whilst also discover something you didn’t plan on getting, but just fancy adding to your basket (this happens to me a lot).
Can be a bit tricky knowing exactly what you’re picking up at time as certain items are in Chinese only, but if you ask somebody will be more than happy to explain

Hier gibt es alles was man braucht um orientalisch zu kochen! Von der Durianfrucht bis zum Manis Kechup, Sushi Reis, Staebchen usw.
Auch im Restaurant oben kann man gut essen, soviel wie man will zum Einheitspreis.

After a recent trip to Hong Kong, I decided I wanted to eat just Chinese food for the rest of my life and make my own Dim Sum. Now, I may have been a little hasty in that decision and I have since included a bit of British grub in there, some Indian, some French (yeah, you get the picture). However, at the height of my love affair with all things Eastern I made several visits to this place (and will again).
The huge, huge warehouse of a building (nearly the size of nearby Tescos) is stuffed with delicious accoutrements of a Chinese diet (Mandarin, Szechuan, Beijing, Cantonese and many more) — fresh pak choi, lemongrass, noodles and rice of every variety and cooking speed, soy sauces in great big containers, shrimp paste etc etc.
I shrieked with joy when I unearthed a pile of fortune cookies, and then around the next corner bamboo steamers, gorgeous little tea sets and hundreds of chop sticks and woks. There is also everything you’ll need to stage a Chinese celebration — New Year dragons, waving cats, red pockets for weddings. Wai Yee Hong an absolute revelation
(and there’s a pretty good Cantonese restaurant upstairs too).

First was introduced to the chinese supur market about ten years ago when a friend took me to buy a wok so that he could teach me how to cook a good stir fry. I’ve since been going back regularly as the food is like nowhere else that I know in Bristol and at such a low price. It’s as cheap as wholesale trade prices. The staff are very friendly and helpful and can always point you in the right direction.

Used to shop here when it was situated in Montpelier. Love the new shop, a lot, lot bigger. Staff very friendly, amazing selection of food, including frozen. Curry paste is amazing! Highly recommended and nice now its more easily accessible to the masses.

they provide lovely Chinese food that me and my boyfriend always thoroughly enjoy! their new restraunt is very posh and lovely for fine dinning. highly recommended.

great place to eat. me and my girlfriend go there on a regular basis to catch up. i love the noodles

Great place, if you are Chinese– Cantonese I might add. The supermarket is well stocked and is quite busy. The location is next to ikea, which is where we go first then head over here. The food is authentic and freshly prepared. The seating is also quite nicely presented. Worth a try if you are willing to spend money.

The Eastgate centre, built on the site of Eastville market, has been open about three months. It’s a fabulous building — light, modern and airy and houses the Wai Yee Hong supermarket; a high ceiling-​ed emporium of all foods Chinese and East Asian. They have the biggest selection of soy sauces I’ve ever seen, sesame oils, cooking wine, sauces & marinades, crackers, herbs & spices, flavourings, teas, frozen goods, tinned goods and also a selection of cooking utensils and woks. The aisles are well spaced and it’s great for browsing.

This is the newest addition to the Eastville area… a huge Chinese supermarket with a restaurant above. I’ve not actually visited the restaurant but my relatives tell me it’s very good.
The supermarket itself is far superior to Kin Yip Hon in Broadmead. First of all it’s massive for an oriental supermarket and it has a great selection of stuff. It has utensils, dried food, refrigerated food, frozen food, fresh food, drinks and snacks. Everything is laid out really well and the aisles are well spaced so you can browse at ease (the shop in town always seemed too crammed in to me).
If you like Chinese food it is definitely worth a look. It might be difficult if you’re English finding things you want because you can’t always tell what things are by looking at them (although most things do have English writing on them) but having Chinese relatives I know what I’m looking for and can find it quite easily.
I doubt I will use the one in town now this is here.