Caroline C.
Yelp
I love love love Asian grocers! It doesn't matter that they all stock pretty much the same things, I still spend way too long looking at each and every item. It just never gets old. I always drop in for, say, soy sauce or lemon grass, and end up leaving with bags and bags of stuff I may or may not actually use (I still have a can of Banana Blossoms that I don't know what the hell to do with).
New Saigon is everything I want from this kind of store - a bit grubby, a bit smelly, with sacks of rice piled high, and shelf upon shelf of noodles, sauces, spices, soup mixes and oils, as well as packages of mysterious dried sea creatures and bottles of odd pickled vegetables. They offer a great selection of fresh produce, from all the usual things you'd find at Sooper's to more exotic items like dragon fruit, lotus roots, persimmons etc. Their fresh meat and fish is great (though not quite as extensive as Little Saigon Supermarket up the road) and the prices are crazy cheap.
I left with three bags of stuff for under $20. Love it!!
PS Their kim chee isn't that great, and I can't say I liked the green glutinous slab of tapioca-type dessert (tasted grassy). The pickled carrots are amazing though.