Win Sea Food Market

Don’t come here for customer service, just for the great quality of seafood for a great price, they clean well just as you asked.

Fresh seafood love this place. My to go for seafood. Whenever I feel like having fish or any other seafood. The lady by the register is very nice. Love this gem on canal street. Stop by after work on a regular basis

I highly recommend this market for undeniably Good quality Seafood. Great selection , great prices, the seafood is always fresh and the service is fast!

WEIGHT SCAM! BE AWARE… The lady with the glasses overcharged me today 03-21-25. I went home and suspected the weight of the fish vs. the price. I took out my scale and found a difference of about $9. I called to inquire and she kept putting the phone down and ignoring me, acting like she didn’t hear me. I’ve been going here for years. I will never step food here again. I always suspected but never checked until today. I’m wondering how much they stole from me over the years. LOOK AT THE SCALE WHEN THEY WHEIGH THE FISH(assuming the scale is accurate/legit)AND DO THE MATH. They do it on purpose. Happened to me at another fish market nearby, but I caught the guy and he re weighted the fish. I will file a compliant with the business bureau and consumer fraud prevention agencies. I’ve the receipt and weights in video.

I am from uptown and go down for this fish market to get my seafood. They are fresh and the price is right. The workers are quick and friendly.

Best place to buy seafood, go at least once every year and get a bang for your buck. If you’re looking to cater or an awesome family dinner this is the place. I come all the way from the burnt down too.

The seafood is fresh and affordable. The man who manages it is racist. He didn't want me to pick my own food. He kept screaming at me and blocking me from examining the fish.

Be careful they toss the food around. All my lobsters were fine until the man that works there threw my bag to the side to count them up. All the whole lobsters were crushed !

ABSOLUTE favorite market. I travel from uptown to only go their market. Good service, prices and always fresh fish and seafood. Highly recommend them.

The seafood is fresh and prices are undeniable. The photo was after I boiled and seasoned it, the whole family enjoyed! Paid $38 for enough food to feed a family of four. 1 Bag of Mussels for $5 Jumbo Shrimp $5/lb Crab Legs $12/lb Crawfish $5/lb

They had hamachi Kama! Just what I wanted! Old school Chinatown fish market, close to subway

FANTASTIC SEAFOOD MARKET! People are afraid of buying fish in Chinatown and I am telling you that it is safe. It's extremely affordable and the seafood tastes fresh. Don't judge until you try, you're missing out and paying too much for your salmon at Whole Foods (luv u Whole Foods). We picked up some live blue crabs and red snapper for dinner and were very impressed by the low prices! Great service as well. $18 for a dozen blue crabs, $5.40 a pound for the red snapper. You'll notice how there are different men in the market, they're all selling their own items separately so you speak to each individual for pricing for their section. They give you a ticket once you've chosen what you want with the price. You take the ticket to the register (before grabbing your merchandise), pay for it and then go back and grab what you paid for. You can ask for the fish to be de-scaled (is that a word?) gutted and cleaned. Very inexpensive and our crab boil was a success! Will definitely come here more often.

It's not on Canal, it's on Walker, but close enough. Plenty of fresh seafood here... turtles, fish, abalone, and more. They'll descale (though you will need to do a bit of cleanup around the edges) and gut the fish for you if you want. Relatively cheap, compared to the grocery store. Lots of people looking on the street, though, it's right beside where all the tourists are running around, which is annoying, actually.

They accept only CASH and ETB. The prices are great. Today was my first time here I brought 12 live Maryland blue crab for $12 so I could make Ganjang-Gejang. Service is quick, efficient and friendly. When you walk in you can order the you seafood of choice from the employees standing by the fish. Once your done they will hand you a ticket that you give to the cashier, pay and they give you the ticket back so you can leave with your fresh seafood. This place was simple to find right around the corner from the canal street train station. I recommend this place, good variety. Price is just right for me, cheaper than buy fish from Shoprite by my house.

Fish looks fresher they added a plastic entrance door lovely the cleanness . No debit or credit cards accept is not accepted. Opens at 10 and Closes around 7 pm

Bought soft shell crabs here yesterday. Found a dead fly in with the soft shell crabs. There are multiple flies buzzing around the fish which is normal for this market, but finding a big fat one in with my crab is DISGUSTING!!!! I saw the man pick out the crabs in front of me. The dead fly must of buried itself into the orifices of the crab. I am so disgusted, its a good thing I really rinse the seafood off really well, or I may have eaten this dead fly. This is making me so sick. Ive lost my appetite for seafood for a long time...

Not impressed. First time trying these folks out but I didn't buy anything. The salmon wasn't fresh and had a greyish hue to it. Small storefront. Most of, if not all of their seafood is on ice, in bins and on display. Pricing was reasonable for the area but the quality just wasn't there. Would stop in again but only if in the immediate area. Eh.

New Yorkers, what's wrong with you? Why are there only 2 reviews of Win Choy? For all the weirdo tourists taking pictures (who DOES that? At least I know I'm in about a hundred stranger's photo albums grocery shopping, I guess?), Win Choy's employees delightfully ignore them. No sir, we are not recreating San Francisco's fisherman's wharf or the entire coastline of Seattle for you, not today. Win Choy is instead all business--what do you want, how much should it weigh, period. My strategy for Win Choy's was to go in blind, buy whatever looked amazing that day and then go across the street to Starbucks to Google what to do with it. Next to Win Choy's is a good meat market with ox tail, tripe and other animal artifacts often poo-poo'ed by Fresh Emporium. And when it's not dead-of-winter, the produce carts along Walker will do you right for fresh and cheap veggies. I've come back with my bodyweight in shrimp, baby octopus, smelt, salmon steak, crawdads, and once, three live lobsters. Now living in California, so far away from Win Choy's and its resulting dinners with my dad, it's an easy mark for nostalgia. Even without my dad and the gin martinis he made for us, without the tourists and carrying fish back home on the 6 line, Win Choy's is hard to replace. I've found other fish markets here in LA, but nothing's quite the same as my favorite fish market on Walker. Pros: selection so fresh it's still moving, variety, price, tradition Cons: it's open air, so chilly in winter Trivia: in a bunch of films, most recently Woody Allen's "Whatever Works."

When the compulsion to cook up some seafood noodle soup strikes you, then look no further than Win Choy for shellfish and whole fish. The lobsters, mussels, and whole crabs are fresh and reasonably priced. Once you get past the hordes of gawkers, the service is super-efficient. As with any fish market, it's best to get there early for the best picks of fish.

I've been shopping here for 5 years. I can say when I first found this place, I wasn't impressed with the service but can't beat the prices and quality. Over the years, they've gotten much better at speaking English, which really isn't a prerequisite for being in China Town. If your white and going into an ethnic neighborhood and aren't treated like a local, why the hell are you complaining? This isn't even deep into China Town, walk 5 streets deep and go into a store and no one will even look at you. Anyways, this place gets 5 stars because of the price and quality of the food. Everything is on ice. Just because it's not behind a glass display case doesn't mean that it's not fresh. I've brought a cooler with ice with me and made sushi with their $9/lb salmon and $8/lb tuna. Wanna make crab cakes? Their canned lump crab is $16, cheapest I've seen in supermarkets is $20, if I'm lucky. Alaskan King Crab Legs? $21/lb. All their shrimp is $7-$10 lb and they have beefy prawns for $13/lb. I'm making some ceviche and I just made the trip from Brooklyn to get my fresh fish from here. Yeah the cashiers were laughing at me for buying a whole grouper and getting fillets of it in Cantonese but who cares? I'm getting the freshest and cheapest fish you can find anywhere outside of getting it wholesale.

Their process here is confusing if you never bought fish from Win Choy before. Here's the gist of it: 1. Tell a random guy who seems like he's loitering around what you want. 2. Specify to guy if you want your fish gutted, cleaned, or cut. 2. Guy gives you a piece of paper with dollar amount. 3. Take piece of paper to lady at cash register. 4. Pay and get paper stamped. 5. Give paper back to old man to get your seafood. Be careful you note down the dollar amount on the paper and what the woman tells you to pay. I realized she overcharged me by $0.50. How sneaky and dishonest. Also since the old men just write down the dollar amount on the paper after they weigh it, pretty sure they also add a few extra cents or dollars to the actual amount. One man complained that I wanted to buy less than half a pound of shrimp. The other man took my side and said it makes sense that I'm buying for one person. I don't understand why I need to validate why I'm buying the amount I want to buy. But just ignore them if they try to make you buy more than you need. Even though the people here complain at you a lot and are probably cheating you, I'd still come back. The fish did seem fresher than the fish at Deluxe Food Market or Hong Kong supermarket. There was also more variety of seafood. I was looking for golden pomfret which is a flat wide white fish with a golden tinge on the scales. The golden pomfret at HK supermarket had sunken red eyes and the ones at Deluxe were wrapped and frozen so I couldn't take a look at the eyes. Most of the fish here had bright, clear eyes which is why I eventually chose to come here. They will also gut or clean the fish for you. The market is not the cleanest. I saw a bunch of shrimp fall on floor, and they just picked it up and put it right back. This is Chinatown so I expect nothing less.

Just went there looking for some crabs and cocktail shrimps. Immediately after we got in, my wife asked whether they had cocktail shrimps. A dude at the door said, awkwardly, "you can find cocktail shrimps in China, not here" then started chatting with another dude in Cantonese, and I overheard the word "cocktail shrimp" in their Cantonese while they chatted and laughed. So I said "you can always go back to Hong Kong if you want to speak Cantonese". To which they could not find a response. I hope these guys learn to not abuse the trust of their new customers and lose potential business due to their unprofessionalism.

This place is usually a mad house with people clambering to pick up fresh seafood to take home and cook. Be prepared to wait in line, be confused because you realize you're not actually in a line, find out that sometimes you need to pay before you pick out your seafood and sometimes you should pay after you pick it out, feel like you're unable to communicate with some of the staff because they act like they don't speak English but then you find out they speak it flawlessly... it's utter confusion just like that long, run-on sentence I typed above =) Yet, there is a bright side to all of this confusion--that is, Win Choy features some of the best priced, fresh seafood around NYC. So, is all the craziness worth it? I'd say it is. But, just be warned, it takes a bit of work to walk away happy... but you'll have some mighty tasty shrimp to cook up when you get home.

Been getting crab legs from them all the time. They are not always best looking, but you just have to look and pick the right ones. Prices are good too, you can't beat them. I tried prawns too but they were yuck, old and not eatable. And i don't like fish in general so i need got any from them, only crab legs and they are bomb. They take cash only i think and they also got the old bay which of course i use extra when i cook. Def recommend.

Me and my friends decided to have a seafood feast so I yelped and found win Choy. So happy I did. We bought 6 lobsters, 6lbs of medium shrimp, 8lbs of snow crab legs, 4 dozen large clams, and 8 dozen blue crabs for $240. Feeding 8 adults and 4 children and of course we had plenty left over. Everything was fresh and all tasted delicious. This is my new fish market. Thanks yelpers!

The only reason I go to Canal St. I have been purchasing my crab legs, shrimp, lobster tails and fish from here for over 10 years. BEST crab legs ever!

This place doesn't disappoint there seafood Is fresh &the employees are a little pushy, but excellent prices I strongly recommend this fish market

Was here's this past weekend, ... And I must say coming from Harlem, it's well worth the trip! Got 3 Lobsters some shrimps and I feast out! Will be back this coming weekend

This is one of my favorite places to buy seafood. Great prices and usually fresh. I only ever go to Chinatown to buy shrimp though, have yet have enough courage to venture out to buying live/raw fish there. For shrimp though, in my experience, is great. Love the prices and the selection! My go-to spot now with Ocean Star added to the list.

about as good as you can get for a canal street fish market pretty straight to the point you pick what you want ask the Chinese people standing around they bag it up weigh it and give you a ticket and you pay

The prices are really awesome here - that is until you bring the seafood home, and have to try to eat it, and realize it tastes like it's been sitting out all day. And I mean ALL day... Maybe getting here early in the day would help, I was browsing here after work around 6pm, but nonetheless... there should be a "if it ain't fresh, don't sell it" policy here!

Snow crabs fresh shrimp and smelt fish! Open early and always always fresh. There are various sizes of shrimp which is a plus because different shrimp recipes require a certain size shrimp, not just medium or large. Super Fresh Seafood!

One of my favorite Chinatown fish markets, the lobster I purchased was lively and awesome. The prices are excellent. I've been buying fish here for eyars and I've never bought anything here that wasn't super fresh.

Passed by to get some crawfish. They have a Large variety and it's inexpensive. The service is a little rude but that's probably the case for most of the businesses in Chinatown. I recommend it

The fish is fresh and the price is cheap, but the service is the worst, they had no knowledge (or pretend not to) of english at all. One of the workers tried to make me pay again, when he saw that my receipt had fell to the floor at my feet. They harassed me for a cleaning tip. I gave them a $10 tip and when I got home I had to clean the fish myself. They would not filet the fish and there were a lot of scales, guts and even worms that they use for bait, left in the fish. I was disgusted. I could have done better at my local supermarket, which I will go to from now on.

crowded, fishy stank, but definitely cheaper than the market right next to them. in case you want to package the fish and take it back to CA (like my dad), they do wrap it up and put it in a bucket for you to bring it on the plane (check in of course). they charge $5.

0 STARS IT PAINS ME TO HAVE TO GIVE THEM EVEN 1! I am planning a party for this saturday so my mother and I decided to venture down to Chinatown in search of better prices on red snapper and shrimp. We live in the Bronx so it was quite a trip. I insisted we go to Win Choy because I'd read the other reviews here on yelp. We went in and were satisfied with the prices: less than 6 dollars/lb for the snapper and 13 dollars for a bag of cooked shrimp. The man working the store picked the fish my mother pointed out, weighed it and sent it back to be cleaned. He insisted that we find the pink slip he gave us after about five minutes which sent up a red flag. There's no way you can clean 10 lbs of fish in 5 minutes and we'd already paid so there was really no reason to insist on getting the ticket back. We paid and left even though my mother noted that the fish she received looked a bit pale. Once we got back on the train we noticed a seriously foul smell coming from the bag. After enduring the disgusted looks from people on the train we got home and did some investigating. 90% of the fish we purchased was rotten. We called back and now have to go all the way back down there. Hopefully, they'll redeem themselves by giving us a refund or some edible fish.