New York Mart
“They have a bathroom (which is rare in Chinatown and a positive thing) but the bathroom is kind of grose…”
“This is not the place for an average 20-something hipster to pick up their organic kale on the cheap.”
“The meat section on NYM's back wall has the best priced, tastiest pork ribs we ever ate.”
New York Mart
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Accepts Apple Pay: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
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Great grocery store in the middle of Chinatown. It literally has everything you might need, from cooking pots to fish to veggies to fruit to even prepared pork and duck fishes. Prices are very reasonable and lines always move quickly.
Coming here is like hopping on a plane back to the motherland – it's that aroma of fish and sweaty feet in sandals. Stuff of nostalgia. I also raided the snack aisle and loaded up on honey wheat biscuits, those crunchy nut balls that I only ever eat when I'm stressed or watching Orange is the new black, dried chunks of sweet potato, and Hi-chew (!!).
The cashiers are mean and efficient. Don't be nice and actually try to help unload the contents of your basket onto the conveyor belt. You'll get the basket yanked out of your hands and a snarl for your efforts to be polite and civilized.
Place closes at the oddly specific time of 8:40.
(and because I'm a crotchety Asian grandma in the making, I feel obliged to tell you how ridiculously CHEAP everything was – hello, 3 Fuji apples for $3?! That may still be overpriced somewhere over in Cleveland, but I was over the moon.)
One of the busiest Chinese supermarkets in Chinatown by far, but certainly not the greatest.
The supermarket has a lot of produce, poultry, foods, and etc. as well as roasted meats on the other side of the supermarket. Customers here are quite rude and pushy. The aisles are a little tight, not much room to move around.
I came to this supermarket once to purchase an electric hot pot because my boyfriend has one too and it works very well. The price of mine was $49.99. We brought the pot home, did a test run and found there was a hole inside the pot and water was leaking through the hole when we did the test run.
We went to return it and explained the issues to management and was given a $50 store credit instead to use and shop with it. It can get pretty packed and crazy here. I definitely prefer Hong Kong supermarket on Elizabeth Street or going to similar shops to pick up what I need.
Hm. It surprises me that this supermarket gets such mediocre reviews. So it's Chinatown–expect to fight through crowds of tourists and grannies pushing their little grocery carts, expect wafts of durian (for the uninitiated, it's that nasty smell that you think is garbage), expect slimy floors that make you regret not wearing boots in the middle of the summer, expect long lines at the cash registers and having to scrimmage for cash when you realize you're a few cents below the minimum for credit card.
If you've got your expectations set, you're ready to do some serious shopping at New York Mart. This place has fairly good prices (comparable if not better than Hong Kong Supermarket). What I love is the selection of fresh veggies. It's like a warehouse (and feels like one too – see note above about the floors). They usually carry everything I need except for yam cake, which is bizarre!
I advise taking a tip from Chinese grannies and coming earlier in the mornings to avoid insane crowds around midday and the afternoon. You can also come in the evenings, but the selection might not be as great. It's nice to have an indoor supermarket where you can do you one-stop shopping. It's not going to be as dirt cheap as getting your fruits and veggies from the outside stalls lining so many of the streets in Chinatown, but it's somewhat easier.
Great selection of seafood, veggies, condiments, EVERYTHING. My mom got a 老婆饼, which is one of her favorite pastries, and she gave her stamp of approval.This is the place to go to if you want to prepare an authentic Chinese meal. The prices are great and the variety is amazing. The store itself is not super clean (definitely no whole foods) so embrace yourself.
The goods in this medium-sized market tend to be crammed together on the shelves and around every corner. It kind of gives me a closed in feeling, but since this is one of two large Chinese supermarkets in the area…here I go.
New York Mart has a really extensive produce selection, and it is crazily cheap. I also like that lots of stuff can be purchased in plastic bags already weighed to be 1 pound. Their selection of dry goods is solid and definitely sufficient, but for a wider variety, go to Hong Kong Supermarket just around the block. This, as well as the fact that their seafood tanks are hideously dirty, is why NY Mart gets just 3 stars.
NY Mart is one of those one-stop shop for all your grocery needs that neither impresses or disappoints. The convenience of having fresh (but more often semi-fresh) produce, staples, packaged/frozen good is always a plus. However, big crowds and the frequent need to dig through the fruits and vegetables for freshness makes one hesitate to want to enter in the first place. It does have a bigger variety of produce than Dynasty two blocks away, so there you go.
Lastly, a shout-out to NY Mart for being open on the day where Chinatown is being bludgeoned by The Blizzard of 2016.