jducoeur

Our answer to that around here is Gold City, in Chinatown Queens (larger and healthier than the better-known Chinatown Manhattan). It's the size of a regular supermarket (in New York City, i.e. about the size of the produce section of a suburban supermarket). It has a gazillion kinds of fish, mostly whole and largely alive. It has a gazillion kinds of green vegetables (e.g. eight or ten varieties of bok choy), of which the ones you could find in a regular supermarket are about two thirds the price they would be in a regular supermarket. There's an aisle or two of dried noodles, an aisle of noodles packed in water, an aisle of Oriental cookware (woks, steamers, rice-cookers, strainers, wok-paddles, etc.), an aisle of Oriental herbal remedies.... There is no overflow parking lot, so people wait in line, blocking the adjacent street, to get into the parking lot, which often has a couple of store staff directing traffic. It's fun, unless you're looking for something specific and don't know where they keep it, because most of the staff are pretty shaky on spoken English.