C-Mart Supermarket

Probably the largest Asian Market in center of Boston. Very impressive selection presented in a “wet market” type of setting. You will definitely find all the essentials for an Asian kitchen. Maybe not a personal favourite, but will certainly be a choice because of its convenient in-town location.

Their service attitude is extremely poor. Once, when we went shopping there together, we couldn’t find a parking space in the parking lot, and the space was very narrow. We tried hard to adjust the car and were preparing to leave. At that moment, a man—possibly a parking lot staff member—appeared. He was somewhat elderly, but he threatened us, verbally abused us, and became very angry. He rudely rushed us to leave as quickly as possible and was extremely impolite and unfriendly. On another occasion, there was a female cashier at the front desk whose attitude was also very arrogant and rude. They all seemed very unhappy.

Sat and could not get out of their parking lot for 15+ minutes on the morning of Friday, Jan 23, 2026. A white van full of seniors but without a driver was allowed to park on the exist lane completely blocking the way out. A dozen of cars were stuck behind the van. No car could move in or out. The parking lot was paralyzed. Tried to locate the drive or a store manager but none available. The store needs find a way to manage the parking lot and ensure traffic safety.

Quite comprehensive super market. The living fish is definitely a plus for me. Good variety of vegetables, premade Asian food,snacks,dry goods and spices. And it has free 2 hours parking on site!

Well let’s not judging the cleanness or the attitudes of the cashiers. It’s Chinese market, we came here for the groceries that we don’t get from Whole Foods or Costco. They carry enough options for seafood, which is a huge plus. Vegetables are fresh. Meats are ok. Need more Asian snacks though.

I have been shopping here for many years. Same convenience, good collection of Chinese groceries, vegetables, fresh fish, seafood, meat, etc. , the same mess and crowds and the same hardworking people. They also make extra parking lot available during weekends right next to the main parking lot and it is always convenient to park and shop there.

Still the best Chinese grocery store in Boston, always has great produce, and a huge selection of teas. I do not lie the whole range of snacks is always my weakness. Checkout and service has always been great. Not to mention having your own customer park lot in the city always makes going a breeze.

This place was busy when I went there (on a Saturday). It was relatively less expensive than its neighboring store (New York Marts). I recommend going to this shop first before the other one nearby. You'll get a wider variety of vegetables at a fraction of the cost. Will be coming here more often.

All kinds of good finds here! I never know what I will find here. Parking is terrible, so I only shop here if I take the train and happened to be around. I actually really liked shopping here. And, I always look forward to shopping at this location. Prices are not always amazing tho. I guess it depends on what you are looking for.

I am writing to expose a BLATANT FRAUD I experienced during my recent shopping trip. What happened is nothing short of deliberate theft! During checkout, while momentarily distracted by a phone call, the cashier committed an UNBELIEVABLE act of deception. My simple purchase of Asian pears turned into a nightmare of overcharging: Original Price: Asian pears at $1.48/lb FRAUDULENT Charge: Mysteriously changed to "KOREAN DAIKON" at $11.22/lb Total Overcharge: A staggering $23.45! This is NOT an accident - this is CALCULATED THEFT. The cashier exploited my momentary distraction to pad the bill with an ENTIRELY FABRICATED item. The receipt proves everything. To fellow shoppers: ALWAYS scrutinize your receipts! This store's unethical practices are designed to steal from unsuspecting customers. I am DONE supporting such a dishonest establishment and will be reporting this to consumer protection authorities. BEWARE and STAY ALERT! Sincerely, A Cheated Customer

They sell the regular bag for 10 cent that not recycle bag. That legal. They still use it, but that bag not for recycle. I will call health department I love seafood there, people work there is very nice.

This store is great for produce, condiments, and beautiful jars of tea. Everything else is kind of lacking. It has a parking lot which is a +++

I saw a rat the size of Lizzo just walking around. The air almost smelled chemically and the general vibe is depressing.

No one here (employees)really gives a damn . Do they know about the Covid 19? Staff seems clueless,I know you can't fix stupid... but seriously! No staff member enforcing 6 feet rule at registers,counters not getting cleaned from one shopper to the next, carts not getting wiped down at all! Sanitizing does not exist here,governor or mayor should pay them a visit. Shoppers you've been warned. Altho still great place to get your veggies

C-Mart stores and their respective corporate presidents, Maio Kun Fang, Bao Song Qu, and Quxiang Lin, are sited nearly $1 million in restitution and penalties for wage theft and other violations affecting over 150 employees, Attorney General Maura Healey announced today. The stores have rreceived 15 total citations for failure to pay premiums for work performed on Sundays, failure to post minimum wage notices, overtime violations, earned sick time violations, and failing to produce records of daily and weekly hours worked by employees.

I would give a zero star if possible. The fish market is stinky and no service at all.

4 stars for your typical Chinese Supermarket with cheap products -Min credit card charge of $5. I've been several times to C Mart and the apple selection here last night was not the best, but the Spinach I got seemed fresh. I also bought some dumplings which were discounted and 20 cents cheaper than a supermarket a couple blocks away. They have a nice deal on apples 3 large Fuji for $2.49. Last week when I came the apples were red and delicious after some digging (I can be very picky when it comes to fruits and vegetable selections). Tips/Takeaways: -Grab a cart, explore the aisles -Credit card $5 minimum -Parking is limited so don't arrive last minute at closing, it can get hectic in the mornings and evenings from what I've seen -Lines were not too long when I came on a Sunday around 12pm and a Saturday around 650pm right before 7pm close. -Would recommend return for your weekly groceries

C-mart is an interesting place. It's kind of grungy enough that someone who hasn't grown up shopping at the 99 Ranches and Marina foods of the world will be pretty turned off. But then again it's clean enough that the people who have are pleasantly surprised. The side entrance is pretty small and this place gets super crowded during the weekend. It's accessible pretty conveniently by bus. They have special deals for the weekend only which is great. Food seems fairly fresh. The produce and everything is very very clean. There was a spill in the meat section and immediately staff was on it, cleaning it up thoroughly. Worried about cleanliness? Inspect what you buy and wash it before you cook it. Problem solved. Price can't be beat, and I definitely think C-mart is cheaper and cleaner than other options (Jia Ho and Super 88). Selection is pretty good in the dry foods area. Staff mostly speak Chinese - some Cantonese, most will speak Mandarin as well. Broken English also flies. Yea, the staff isn't going to be what you find at a Whole Foods, but C-mart isn't a Whole Foods. They're not really here to help you, they're here to keep the produce stocked.

Shop here to get the best produces and meat. Super cheap and good quality. Their seafood are also very fresh. Also they have brown sugar milk tea ice cream!

You'll find most everything here if you speak Chinese, otherwise it can be daunting. If they hire some bilingual help, time there would be cut in half. Parking is always a nightmare. You'll be driving around many times. Overall, just a shame that the management gives a rat's ass about customer satisfaction.

After visiting Ming's, my boyfriend and I came to this CMart. I found the selection of items to be just as impressive. I thought the store was slightly less clean than its neighbor, but just as well organized and reasonably priced. I noticed the meat was freshly cut, and as my boyfriend pointed out, they do not waste any part of the animal. I like that at both locations, you really are getting fresh fish, and the produce is a great value. There were a good number of cashiers on hand here so I imagine checking out doesn't take very long. They also offer parking adjacent to the store or across the street. Easily accessible on the SL4 or SL5.

C-Mart is Cheap Clean-ish (the meat section smells a little and the floor is wet in some parts) CHEAP, did I mention that already? I was able to get Chinese vegetables for 99cent/ lb on sale. The selection of Chinese vegetables is excellent. The fruits are also very cheap- just make sure they are not too ripe. They also have lots of snacks, meat, seafood, instant noodles etc. Best of all, they accept credit cards and have parking. The parking did look very crowded though. I saw a sign at the cashier that said the first bag they give you is free, and you have to pay for extra bags. I did not have to pay for my extra bags though. I walked away with 2 bags of groceries, and was poorer by a mere $6.26.

C-mart is your typical Chinese grocery store. It carries the various Asian grocery items you'd expect from such a store. The store has one of the largest inventory of Chinese food products and vegetables in the area. The fresh produce and fruits are fresh and if you head over on the weekend, you can find awesome great deals. The turn over of the fresh produce is high and therefore you don't see too much stale fresh items. The fish section is very old school type of fish market. All the fish is on ice unlike the modern supermarkets. You can pick which fish you want instead of the pre-packaged stuff. This fish area can be slippery so be careful. The meat section is again old school where the meat is kept in the display cabinet after it is cut up. I shop here weekly or bi-weekly for my vegetables, fruits, seafood and dry products. What I like a lot is the availability of seasonal Asian fruits that are not available at other markets and the price is much cheaper than H-Mart. This place looks dingy and dirty. As with many Chinese supermarkets, the customer service isn't the most friendliest. If you are expecting a pristine place like a H-mart or Whole Foods, want to pay expensive prices and awesome customer service, this is not the place for you. If you want cheap prices and good variety of produce/dry products, you definitely want to shop here.

Wish I could give this place zero stars. The workers are rude. People were packed in there. Shoppers were equally rude. Workers were smoking at the back loading dock and it was blowing into the store. All in all- disgusting. The parking is awful. The people literally blocking the street where you cannot even exit. If it's full, circle the damn block. The one in Chinatown is equally disgusting. Cannot understand the high ratings.

I've come to this C-mart for the past 4 years living in Boston for all of my Asian cooking needs, and I have to say that this place has yet to disappoint. Keep in mind, this is also...the only real grocery shopping in Chinatown, as it is significantly larger and contains much more variety than its smaller cousin on Washington Street. However, like all Asian supermarkets, come here at your risk, as this place will likely be overrun with non-English speaking shoppers constantly pushing and prodding you towards the aisles containing all sorts of foreign food/vegetables/meats. Also, be prepared to buy things like "beef" or "pork," as there are no specific labels for any parts of the meat. It certainly is clean...by Chinatown standards and has everything you need to impress your Asian parents. So I highly recommend it!

Oh my god! Great place to go. It was closed during the coronavirus. It just opened and it's so clean and impeachable. Great job!!

DO NOT GO DURING WEEKENDS & EVENINGS. I went to this place twice and it feels completely different. Once was a weekend noon and it was HORRIBLE. Overly crowded, smelly, dirty, long queues... ALL negative reviews you can imagine. I literally rushed out less than 20 seconds and gave up buying anything cuz I couldn't stand a single minute inside. The second time I went there a Monday afternoon, and since it had little customers it was nice to shop. Still, you won't expect it to be crystal clean but it's acceptable. A good place to shop a variety of Asian products. Again, do not go during weekends and evenings. DO NOT GO DURING WEEKENDS AND EVENINGS!!!

When I go into this grocery store, I tend to feel nostalgic because it feels like I am back in my home country, Malaysia. The sound of avid shoppers clammering for the best goods is precisely why you should shop at this venue, it's authentic and its genuine. You can find absolutely anything East Asian in this shop, not just Chinese but also Vietnamese, Korean and Japanese too. They even sell some Malaysian brands as well. Their prices are incredibly reasonable and their variety is impressive. I used to go to H-Mart but everything there is so ridiculously expensive. I can buy the same items at C-Mart for half the price. If you grew up in Asia, like me, or in a Chinese neighborhood in USA, and miss the good old Asian markets, then come down to C-Mart and shop to your heart's content.

Fresh, cheap produce. Tons of fresh Asian veggies at competitive prices, as well as decent selection of fruit. This is a no-frills Chinatown supermarket - not nicer than H-Mart Cambridge, but quality is WAY better than H-Mart (overpriced and bug-ridden). Fast cashiers for speedy checkout. Free parking lot next to the supermarket and free garage across the street.

Formerly a Super 88, I find this to be the best C-Mart out of the 3 in the area. The inventory here is better than the other locations, with a wider selection of vegetables and other groceries. I also find the vegetables here to be fresher, especially when compared to the Chinatown branch. This is also the cleanest C-Mart I've been to. It does get rather crowded on weekends, and the parking lot is tiny with only about 20 spots. I have been able to locate meter parking spots right across the street, so unless you're lugging heavy items like giant bags of rice it might be easier to avoid the parking lot altogether.

I have been C- Mart three times, and it was so horrible the supermarket did not improve one thing. The employees are very rude and atrocious that no customers would deserve such treatment. Luckily one employee who has a positive attitude to keep a day going. The groceries were a bit expensive but affordable, anyone can spend it wisely at any giving day. Other than that, the store it itself looks semi-clean and spacious. Overall, due to a poor customer service, I would not recommend anyone to go there.

Only gave this place three stars because I was almost run over by a couple of older patrons who thought a big tall guy was a wonderful target...and made sport of chasing me around the veggie aisles. Seriously, the place is packed on the weekend... The veggie aisles are like a demo derby... but the fresh veggies are definitely worth it. I like the fish section too, but sometimes a challenge getting served, but the fish is fresh and the price is right... As far as the "staples" every sort of tea, lotion, potion, sauce or noodle known to man is available. Before I started shopping here, never knew there were three hundred kinds of dried noodles or even ramen.... The soy sauce selection is wonderful. Don't by much meat here other than the occasional pork belly..... I do miss the bakery and take out food section the old Super 88 used to have. This place is always a stop on the way home from dim sum... parking is always tight, but you can park in one of the businesses across the street on the weekend and then it is easy access to the pike from there.

do not park your car in the parking lot. i was there for 15 minutes picking up groceries. i asked the person that works outside in the lot if he sae who hit my car. his response, "i dont speak english" ok so you just spoke english-stupidity. then i proceed inside the market and tell the management ehat happened, asked if they have surveilance cameras in the lot. they said they do but its not clear. clearly they do not want to help. if someone robbed the store im sure it would be clear. people are also extremely rude. dont go to cmart, go to a more sophisticated market like hmart where they understand customer service and actually care to help.

If you are looking for ethnic and fresh ingredients for a flavorful dish this is the place to go. If you don't speak the language of the staff it can be challenging to get assistant.

Yeah it's crowded.....and people cut you...... and the pocky choices are limited..but some of the stuff is cheaper than kamman in quincy. If im in chinatown and i want idk to go grocery shopping or something, or a bottle of soy milk-- this is where i go!

This is not your average supermarket, but the less it is awesome! This is a great spot to get all things Asian food! I'm originally from NYC and used to love going to the little shops in china town, so going here was a great treat. Do not come here expecting your average shopping experience. It can get crowed and you are the minority as a person who only speaks english, but there is such a great variety of products you won't see anywhere else. I would definitely recommend checking this place out at least once!

I am always excited when I happen to pass through the Shawmut area and come upon my favorite Asian supermarket in Boston. They have everything and then some. Fresh seafood, including pick your own crabs. Tonnes of frozen delicacies from China, Thailand, Japan and beyond. They have produce, every kind of sauce imaginable, and plenty of dessert/candy/snacks to choose from. Best of all the prices are very low!!! It's like the Market Basket of Asian grocery stores. Keep in mind, this place is small and crowded. While H-Mart in Burlington may be enormous in size, coming there on a weekend would be just as crowded as C-Mart is daily. For folks that live in Boston and don't want to spend an arm and a leg Ubering to Burlington this is the absolute best game in town. Also, many of the package labels are also in English. Highly recommend reading where your product is from, whether or not it has MSG or any other additives you do not like putting in your body.

Good products but poor service. Their products are cheap for many reasons. You should expect worst service received from industry as their labor are dirt cheap and many of them simply don't know how to serve or care. People working in "service" area are the worst because they are used to superiority comparing to their "low ranking" peers working inside the store. They will treat you the same as they treat those peers. Mind you! You will be humiliated if you looking for customer service especially refund or exchange. Just very sad people to deal with.

when avocado is sold at 3/$5 elsewhere, you think you got a super deal at Cmart for 10/$5 (2 bags, 5 each) right?? wrong. enter the punch line: i don't always get avocado from them, but when i do, they're all rotten. BEYOND rotten. the flesh is gray, bruised, moldy and...I don't even know how else to describe it. let's just say, out of the 5 avocados in my bag, we were able to scoop out like 5 baby spoonfuls of meat, which I ended up tossing because i'm just too grossed out by the overall quality, or the lack thereof. should've taken a picture, but i didn't want to ruin your dinner too, now that i've ruined my baby's. grrrr so i basically paid $5 for the right to cut them and toss them straight to trash! what seemed to be a super deal, now makes me feel like a dope. boy am i pissed. do they KNOW the fruits have been mistreated/expired hence selling so cheaply??? these things should not even be on the shelves! yeah i would take them back and demand a refund, but then who would drive 45 minutes only to waste more time for them to likely lecture you on caveat emptor (trust me, it's a Chinese market. I worked at one)? nor have I kept my receipt.... lesson learned: walk a block and go to whole foods instead, and pay $2.50 each for it. at least you got a guarantee of some level of quality -- and customer service -- with that price tag. worst part of this story: mother in law just got her ultimate chance to rub it in my face (after i bragged about how cheaply i got them and gave her a bag). damn you, Cmart!!!

The effusive reviews here lulled me, so I came in expecting an experience similar to the H-Mart in Burlington. Nope! This place is small and crowded, and sadly lacking in bulgogi. Note to self: read reviews next time as opposed to glancing. That said, this place is actually pretty great: a wide selection of sauces (I snagged a giant bottle of "patis-mansi," which is apparently now a thing), all the greens, noodles, and tofu you could possibly want, a profusion of pork and chicken feet beyond your wildest imaginings, and a freezer section with thinly-sliced meats. The snack aisle is fully stocked, and so is the area with kitchen items. The best part is, the line at the register moves right along. My cashier was very efficient despite her attention mostly being on the anecdote she was delivering very passionately to her fellow cashiers. Bottom line: C-Mart is a good spot for Chinese/Asian cooking ingredients, although the Jia Ho in Chinatown is comparable and less full. A-OK.

I love going here cause the price is always competitive. Vegetable are great here, seafood are nice as well. Don't fall for the super cheap stuff cause those are like damage goods. Which tends to be end of vegetable aisles as your coming in or near the cashier checking out. Those super cheap item are good for people who really don't mind cutting the bad stuff and eating the good. I always feel bad when i see people buy those, but when you think they might not be able to afford the better stuff and this place offer it then it's okay.

A place you never want to go. Parked my car in their parking lot last week and after came out from the market, I found someone hit my car's rear bumper and ran after. There's a CCTV directly pointing to my car so I got in and asked if I can check the CCTV. The first employee told me that CCTV is broken and can't record, so I called the police and after that he said it is working but he can't let me check it cuz he needs the permission by his boss. He took my Phone number down and never heard back after then. I was a customer shopping at their market and my car got scratched at their parking lot, they can easy help me to check the CCTV but they didn't even want to try to help their customer cuz they believe that's non of their business even they can. Terrible service and will never go back,

This is no H-mart or fancy schmancy supermarket. This old school C-Mart in the heart of Chinatown is small and chaotic, but it has everything I need. Convenient location, OK cleanliness, good selection, and average prices. The thing that pesters me is the quality of the produce - it depends on when you go. I have been going here for more than a decade and still, the prices are lowest for Asian groceries in MA.

The price is cheap. But the attitude of the man who sells fish is so bad! Very terrible! I feel being offended every time when I buy fish there. In addition, that place is very dirty and noisy. I would never go there again

How can a trip to the grocery store be an experience? It indeed can be. The Herald Street C-mart is an asian grocery store that is probably one of the better ones in Boston. Fresh Fish my friends. You haven't had fresh until you've been in an asian grocery store especially this one. They stock many varieties of live fish. Yes, they keep a tank. You can not get any fresher than that. They will clean and cut it up for you if you like. They have a vast inventory of asian specialty foods and veggies. Their prices are also very competitive as well. The one drawback of this place is their parking. Their parking lot is very small and it gets very crowded here. You may be better off finding street parking and walking a few blocks than to use their parking lot on a Saturday morning.

Forget the other two C Marts. If you're a C Mart n00b, this is the one to go to. Lots and lots of veggies, and the store is in what seems to be a little more of a navigable order. I recommend it very much. It's a perfect lunchtime jaunt from my work and from anywhere in the Copley, Chinatown, or DTX area, you can come here at lunch for a quick grocery run. I take people here and show them around because I am nice and know where everything is after three years of Chinatown grocery love. Anyway, I thought I loved the old Super 88 that was here, but I was wrong. This place is "the grizz," or some other nonsense thing my brother would say that means "cool."

This is a good Chinese market. We have a nearby Super 88 in Allston (someday to be Hong Kong Supermarket) but can't get some things there and won't buy fish or meat because of chronic problems. C-Mart has the Hop Sing Lung oyster sauce we prefer and several offerings of Pixian douban jiang. On the last visit we had help from another shopper with that--a native of Chengdu--and took home an excellent variety that we might have otherwise overlooked. We also shop at Ming's, which has several things C-Mart lacks. It is hard to understand some complaints we see here, since we had no problems--for instance--with checkout staff, who have been friendly and helpful. It may help to learn some Chinese and something about cooking Chinese dishes, but surely that goes along with why people would be likely to shop at C-Mart.

It helps if you speak Mandarin. I don't so it sux to be me. Hey mr butcher can you thinly slice this beef? Points me to shabu meat. Sigh~

Bad custom services at meat section for butcher. Some food were spoiled like Bean curd, etc. I believe is not a good place to go rather than other.

C-Mart is always a fun experience. I love the upbeat music they play while grocery shopping. It all adds to the crazy hectic atmosphere of this place. The best part of this grocery store is you can buy a ton of stuff for really cheap. I like going here and being adventurous, buying fruits I've never tried. A lot of their produce isn't labeled either. My husband is vegetarian and they have a ton of tofu options. It really is worth a visit if you've never been to c-mart.

My family and I come here every Sunday to buy food we wouldn't be able to get in American grocery stores. They have an assortment of vegetables, canned goods, poultry, and snacks. I mostly come here to buy some vegetables and some noodles once in a while. However, the main thing that gets me is the snacks. They have an assortment of snacks ranging from Pocky to the jelly cups that you pop right into your mouth. The layout of the store is a little weird. The floors are dirty and sometimes you see a guy cleaning the floor with a sweeper, but otherwise it's rather clean. The cashiers can be a little rude sometimes and some might not understand English, so it's best that you brush up on some Mandarin or Cantonese. Regardless of all of its problems, I recommend that you come here for some grocery shopping. :)

If the management specifically trained their employees to be as rude as possible, it is unlikely they could get any more rude than they already are. I've been coming here for as long as I remember, but I will never go again. There are too many welcoming places where I can buy asian groceries of similar variety and price. I expect only to be treated as a person, and C-Mart has failed this test one too many times.

reasonable price for great sea food selection, except don't be shy here-i feel like you need to be demanding here otherwise the people who work here would ignore you.And one more detail-bring your mask if you want to spend more than 5 minutes here-place smell so bad (especially meat corner), im holding the breath when im passing by. Tip-run in, get your lobster, pay (btw, they never say hi or paying any attention to your presence) and run away outta here as fast as you can

The last time I went to this market, they had those sticky strings on the ceilings to catch the flies, and let me tell you there were a bunch of dead ones. T___T If you don't mind the smell where the seafood place is nor dead flies it's good to walk around and find what you need.

I have only been in this supermarket twice and both times I was asked to leave my bag at the front of the store. This isn't a problem to me, but while I shopped I noticed everybody else had their personal bags with them. I don't think it's right that I am asked to do something that nobody else has to do. Just because I look different than everybody else there doesn't mean I'm a thief. My money is worth the same.

Look, a Chinese supermarket isn't like Whole Foods or Stop and Shop. This place has no frills, no B.S. no crangrape juice, just the best ever in Asian foodstuffs. Tea? they have it. Fresh fish? they have that too, swimming when you get there. Crabs? Shrimp? still wriggling until you throw them in the pan. Asian veggies galore, like every other place on the earth you have to look before you buy, but the prices are unbeatable outside of NYC's mammoth C-town places and hey when you have to have those blue crabs or eels you know are fresh because you ordered them killed, this place makes it all happen on a budget anyone can agree with. I go ever so often, it's not the cleanest place but it's like it would be for most people in the world and you may even find that hard to find tamarind paste to make the perfect Pad Thai or whatever else you've been craving but didn't want to pay someone else to make for you. A mainstay of anyone serious about cooking real Asian foods.

They have a huge variety of asian groceries. I would come here often for some asian snacks or some fresh vegetable that you can pick yourself. They have a parking lot here so its easy for people that drive, and its an easy walking distance for me so i love this place. They'll have frequent promotions where certain groceries would cost less or frequent promotions where if you buy up to a certain amount, they'll give you something. This place is usually crowded during the weekends, when asian go to these super markets to stock up for the week. There was this one time where i waited 10 minutes just to buy a bag of peanuts. My favorite snack from this place would be the seasoned, garlic flavored peanuts.