Tang Frères

You find here all you wish and more...a lot of asian products, new and interesting for us.

Staff are either very nice or very surly. The clients seem to leave their manners at the door. Good selection of Chinese groceries with some Korean, Thai and Japanese items. Reasonable prices. Bladerunner setting.

I just left the store 15mins ago, the staff at cashier 8 (lady with glasses) was super rude. When she saw me came to line up, she just yelled at me to go to cashier 6 which has a clear sign says “fermé”(closed). The lady at cashier 6 was counting the her money. So I kept lining up, when it’s my turn she didn’t not apologize for yelling at me or even said anything. No manners at all!

Tons of variety, fresh fruits and veggies, and even a stand right at the entrance where you can grab a banh mi among mnay other warm food to take away.

Tang Frères is hands down the best spot outside of Asia to find an incredible selection of Asian fruits. From fresh green baby mangos and lychees to dragon fruits and rambutans, they’ve got it all, and at great prices! After savoring some rich garlicky escargots, head to Tang Frères to cleanse your palate with their crisp, tangy green baby mangos.

Smaller than I expected. But still a really good choice of products, especially exotic vegetables hard to find elsewhere. The queue was reasonable. Of course, you have no idea what most of the items are but that’s exactly why you’d want to go there.

Tang Freres is where you want to find Asian foods including typical Vietnamese foods such as coriander, rice rolls, dumplings, spring rolls... fresh and delicious food. In addition, there are many special spices, no shortage of anything, including moon cakes during the mid-autumn season or broken rice for those who like to eat broken rice - a typical dish, must try when coming to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Huge Asian supermarket with many locations in Paris. Their prices are reasonable compared to other supermarket nearby.

I live in NYC, so I've seen my fair share of Asian supermarkets. After all, NYC has an excellent Chinatown. When I first wandered the 13eme, I wasn't very impressed; I saw only a smattering of Asian traiteurs and grocery stores. When I reached Tang Frères (literally, when I turned the corner), my eyes almost fell out of my head. I've NEVER seen such an enormous Asian supermarket. The way that it's arranged is not very intuitive to me (even though I feel like I have a lot of experience wandering around Asian supermarkets); I can't ever seem to find the spices / sauces that I want. There also aren't very many workers walking around, so it's extremely difficult to find help. However, that allows you to wander around and explore all the awesome things that they sell. :D Chives are surprisingly expensive. (I just had to say that :x It's really weird for me). There's a huge variety; I can't overemphasize this. I think you can pretty much find any Vietnamese / Chinese thing you'd need for any sort of cooking. Prices are decent for Paris. Today, I bought a lychee drink, a mangosteen drink, two sets of wonton wrappers, 500g of ground pork, chives, five-spice powder, coconut milk, and tiny tapioca pearls for only 11.20€. Amazing. ALSO! They ground their pork fresh :O It's so cool. I've never seen that. You do need to get a ticket in order to get served by the Boucherie, though. I totally didn't expect this at all and I stood around like an idiot, wondering how people knew it was their turn to get served. I guess it's a new system. It's a little out of the way, but it's totally worth a trip. :)

Coming from LA, I've seen my own share of Asian supermarkets. This one does compare. It looks kind of "up-dup" (hello Cantonese friends) but the variety of vegetables and fruit is sufficient. I was sad their snack section was so small. We also met this really nice lady customer there who guided us to a fantastic Chinese restaurant for dinner.

Coming from Seattle where there's a lot of large asian grocery stores, this was refreshing to find in Paris. Odd, but fun to see a large asian grocery store with prices/tags in French and asian languages (chinese, japanese, thai, laotian, etc). (Paris is the capitol of mom/pop mini marts, imho.) It had sriracha that I was looking for to enliven a stirfry and fresh/cheap asian veggies. Their Chinese BBQ chop house was pricey. Half a fresh roast duck was 17euros ($23+/-). Easy to shop, just make sure to bring your own grocery shopping bags. Pas mal- supermarché asiatique dans le quartier chinois? Vraiment facile pour les novices, pour trouver tous les ingrédients nécessaires pour nems, soupe miso et les sautés chinois. Leur nourriture rôtisserie chinoise est cher, allez ailleurs pour ces plats, p/e traiteurs chinois.

So, it's been nearly 9 months since I've cooked truly Asian food in my own place. I did it regularly when I lived in the States, but part of my own Paris experience has been to completely avoid the foods I was used to - Asian and American cuisine - in order to fully appreciate and acclimatize to the French way of doing things. I recently became sufficiently convinced that I had entered into the French customs of food and had been plenty of adventurous (pig trotters, anyone?) and decided to give in to some of my more primal needs, like that for Asian food. I bought a rice cooker and a bunch of Asian ingredients I had gone a long stretch without. I slept fat and happy that evening. That was because Tang Freres doesn't have everything. Not by a long shot. But it has A LOT of good stuff. Asians will feel very at home here. And make their home here in Paris just a bit more homey.

Finding this grocery store was like finding a gold mine in the middle of Paris. I cannot go without Asian food for more than a month. I had no idea how Asian I was until I lived in Poland and Germany the previous years, where there were no Asian grocery stores and no Asian food. The one grocery store in my village in Germany only carried a bottle of Kikkoman shoyu! I vowed then that the next year, I would live somewhere with a Chinatown! The only problem was finding this place. For some reason, I. Could. Never. Find. this place! EVER! I always felt like a complete idiot stumbling about Chinatown trying to find the hidden door that was Tang Freres. I think it was just me, though, because I always saw tons of Asian people walking about with Tang Freres grocery bags. And I always went the same way, too. I'd get off at M: Porte d'Ivry (I think), walk past my favorite Vietnamese restaurant, Hawaï, pop in for a meal, then wander the streets like a bumbling idiot looking for Tang Freres. If I actually got there before they closed, I'd stock up my pantry with a wide variety of Asian sauces, spices, and condiments, fresh leafy Asian green vegetables like bok choy and choy sum, exotic fruits like jackfruit and sweet coconuts, Asian beverages, teas, and frozen foods. I threw a dinner party once for a bunch of visiting French, Spanish, German and Polish friends who requested that I cook Asian food and Tang Freres saved my life. The frozen nems, or Vietnamese spring rolls that I used for hors d'oeuvres made my prep so much easier--just fry and serve! =P

This is definitely the place that saved my life when I lived in Paris. Being an Asian-American coming from a city that is immersed in Asian culture, I thought to myself.. how am I going to live without spicy food and spices to make?! Well, Tang Frères was there to save me on those days. Major plus is that their chain is open on Sundays when everything else is closed!

The chicken is really smelly even I had washed it many times. Finally I decided to throw it away.

Ridiculously cheap, larger than life (in Paris at least) super market. You can find just about every kind of noodle, soy sauce, condiment, that has ever existed. The produce is ûber cheap and of fairly good quality. The bit of novelty that goes with this store is just the right amount and as you push your way through the throngs of people that are shopping is just perfect (not too much...). AND the obligatory check in for caddies and large bags is more or less trustworthy. I've been going here for the past two years and still it amazes me the things I can find here.

Anything Asian you want to cook you will find the ingredients here. This is one of the best Asian supermarkets I know. Very busy and especially on Saturday hard to Park

Perhaps it was just my bad luck that day, but regardless, my experience in Tang Freres was so awful that I hope this won't happen again to anyone else. I am writing this not to prevent people to come to this shop but rather to suggest that the shop staff never treat their customers the way they treated me. My family just moved to Garches last October from Houston, Texas. After about a month here I wanted to find Asian Groceries (we are Asian). I googled and found information about Big Store in Paris. So I traveled all the way there, did my shopping and put all my groceries in my backpack and one Carrefour shopping bag. While walking to the station on my way home, I saw Tang Freres and I thought I would check if they had a particular spice that I couldn't find in Big Store. I was only browsing the isles for 2 minutes, when I left because I couldn't find what I was looking for. As I passed the cashier, the lady was pointing at my bag and spoke in the loud voice with rude tone and expression. I obviously didn't understand any French but it was pretty clear that she was accusing me of stealing. In fact I wouldn't have minded if the she had asked me to show her the content of my bag in a decent manner. My mistake that I didn't know - after only a month here- that you are supposed to leave your other shopping bags at the entrance. I tried to explain to her that I bought the items in another store, and showed her my receipt. She was unwilling to listen to me. I was very upset and humiliated, my whole body was numb and tingling, I found it was hard to breath I even asked for help, but she just ignored me and picked up the phone calling security., At that point both of my hands were literally paralyzed-I couldn't move them-I was so scared that I was having a heart attack. One customer helped me get my phone from my jacket and called my husband at work. As he asked me to calm down and take deep breathes, I found that I was eventually able to move my fingers again. I was so concerned about my health that I couldn't even pay attention to the security, who ignoring the state I was in, looked through my backpack and grocery bag without asking my permission. He checked everything, item by item. I was so mad but I let him do it because I knew he wouldn't find anything. I asked him if I could just stand outside the door that was only about 2 meters away to breathe some fresh air because I felt like it was hard to breath. He rudely told me to stay. At the end he said there were 2 items that were not in my receipt and insisted that he wouldn't let me go until I admitted to stealing the items. I spent 93 Euros, traveling almost 1 hour to do my groceries and he accusing me of stealing some 3 euros worth of items! I told him he must have just missed the items. But of course he wouldn't listen to me. I only spoke in English and he only spoke in French. One of the items he accused me of stealing has a price tag and it was worth 2.50 Euros. The other items has no price tag. I looked at my receipt in his hand and pointed at the only item in that receipt that cost 2.50 euros, but he said that it wasn't the one he was talking about (even though it was obviously the one because there was nothing else that cost 2.50 euros on the receipt). It was so frustrating because it seems like no matter what I said, nothing can convince him that I was telling the truth. Then one nice French lady who speaks English tried to help us communicate. I told her that I wanted him to check the list together but she said he felt like doing it once by himself was enough. I asked if they could call Big store and find out the name of the "stolen" items so that we could confirm that it was actually on the receipt. He didn't agree to do that either. I told her that I didn't mind if he wanted to call the police, because I was not going to pay for 2 items I didn't steal. It was not because I didn't want to spend some 3 extra euros but because paying would be like admitting and I had nothing to admit to. The lady explained to me that the security suggested that maybe Big store's forgot to scan the items even though it was obviously not the case because there was something on the receipt that is priced 2.50 euros. In the end my husband was more concerned about my health so he convinced me to pay the 3.45 Euros so that I could meet him at the hospital. Luckily, after going to the hospital emergency room it turned out that I was OK and just probably had an anxiety attack from being so randomly and wrongly accused of a crime I didn't commit. I hope Tang Freres' management reads this and I hope they never treat anyone the way they treated me again. Like I said, i understand that they have the right to checked anyone's bags, but they definitely could do it in a much more polite and decent way. That way, even if they had made a mistake they wouldn't have to be embarrassed to admit it. Flora A.

One of my favorite grocery stores in the world! I love the fruit/veggies (incredibly reasonable prices too!), the fresh-made food, frozen food, teas, sauces, noodles, etc ... Just an amazing selection overall - it never disappoints. I can spend HOURS shopping here. And it's open on Sundays. Per-fect.

Rice noodles! White Rabbit candies! Real tofu! Lychee juice! Coconut milk! Curry! Fresh Asian fruits and vegetables! Soup spoons, teapots, bamboo steamers! Even little bonsai trees! This place is a treasure. And it is MASSIVE. Anything Asian you need, it is here, you just need to look a little to find it. Just do yourself a favor and do not go on a weekend: throngs of pushy impatient shoppers + huge selection + confusing labels + noisy noisy noisy = absolutely overwhelming.