Laleh E.
Yelp
I'M BACK. I try to come here when I need Asian ingredients for cooking, it's just very out of the way. Doesn't matter. While they have a very different selection than stores like Super G, they have more live seafood and hard-to-find meats. Their live seafood section has everything from fresh fishes to eel, turtle, frog, and lobster, but their fruits have been lacking recently. I drove all over Charlotte trying to find fresh lychees, and they have them, but many of the packages had fuzzy mold growing on them :( Kind of gross, so I didn't buy them, but they are probably very hard to find out of season, even for wholesale purchase by a store.
The café is unbeatable. They certainly give you your money's worth of food, and it's VERY affordable. The menu is small, only 11 or 12 items, but they have lots of side dishes and dumplings. The service is great and the quality is just...UGH it's so good. I get the same thing every time I come- #1 on the menu, barbeque pork with duck. Tender, juicy, flavorful, and a ton of food. Nothing has changed. That's the way it should be. I stopped by the bakery this time and got a lychee smoothie, which is the best one I've ever had. I couldn't believe how fresh it tasted- I think it had fresh ones blended into it. 5 stars despite the moldy lychees because the cafe and bakery food is so good. Will be back as soon as I can. I crave it every day.