Jia Ho Supermarket

Overpriced grocery in Chinatown — prices markedly higher than H Mart/​Cambridge. For those allergic to sticker shock, you’ve been warned.

Very cheap, not the cleanest but its perfect for me. ⁵⁄₅

A good oriental store to get your asian food essentials (asian cookware, sauces, condiments, snacks, vegies, meat, rice, noodles, frozen pot stickers etc). Cheaper than other oriental stores I’ve been to in Cambridge area. Variety is quite good too.

Awesome authentic market with a taste of China so real it seems ridiculous that I can get on a train a block away to Plymouth Rock! Highly recommended and check out the wall of ramen.

This market has a lot of tea choices! They had the tea I had in China that was so amazing! I’m so happy! They also have super cute bowls that have cats and piggies on them
One thing I will say is some things (like veggies and fruit) were somewhat overpriced that some places. But nonetheless they had a wide selection of pocky (my friends and I got four different boxes lol). I am so glad I went here to get tea!
You should check it out if you want Asian based food, I will return to get some and I’m excited!

Average 2.5 star supermarket with asian veggies, snacks, noodles, and meats. It’s quite hidden if you drive by real fast. There’s cheap veggies here but be warned! Some of the veggies are quite gross. I bought water cress here and found SNAILS on my leaves. I threw half of the bunch away and triple washed and inspected individually the other half. I had bought bittermelon here as well which was ok. Overall, I’d come here for clean veggies and snacks if I’m craving them. Just be very careful about washing your fruits and vegetables.

Great selection and produce looks pretty good. Much larger than Sun-​Sun and the produce looks noticeably fresher. There are also more checkout lines so it’s faster. I especially prefer coming here because it’s so much closer to my apartment than the other Asian grocery stores around here.

I didn’t know about this supermarket until recently, when I had to find another option last weekend since C-​Mart was closed from burst water pipes. C-​Mart is a little bigger and has a bigger fresh produce and meat section, but prices at Jia Ho are pretty much the same level of astoundingly cheap and I was able to get everything I needed. Solid second option for groceries in Chinatown.

Great supermarket conveniently located in Chinatown. It gets very crowded during the day. Not sure how they provide carts that you can push around considering how narrow each of the aisles are.
Otherwise, it’s our top pick for groceries when stopping by Chinatown if you’re able to find parking. Great prices, great selection, and great location.

DON’T EVEN MENTION ABOUT THIS SUPERMARKET. THE OWNER IS THE RUDEST MAN I HAVE EVER ENCOUNTERED. My experience with the owner is OUTRAGEOUS
It was great until stuff happened between me and the manager.
I went shopping with a friend, i went to pay first. After I pay, of course I have to go back and wait for him, I don’t just leave with stuff I purchased. I carried my red bag of groceries back into the store. It felt too heavy so I decided to stuff my goodies into my backpack.
Okay, it was my mistake that I put in the groceries in my backpack at the wrong place and wrong time. The owner saw me putting the stuff in my bag. He did not bother to come up to me and ask to look at my receipt or anything, instead he STALKED ME for whole 15 minutes. 5 minutes into the stalking, I asked my friend if he was following me. He said no, he’s just doing his job. But ever aisle I walked to, I SEE HIM AT THE OTHER END OF THE FUCKING AISLE.
First of all, if you’re suspicious please come up to ask to see my receipt. No big deal. I don’t mind because I didn’t STEAL their shit. I don’t mind and I got no shame. Why are you fucking stalking me, Isn’t that illegal? I’m 5 feet, 17 year old girl and he’s like in his mid 50’s? Was he afraid that I was going to beat him up with my short legs?
I was a little scared at first, but the way he is stalking me is just too real. I was on RAGE, and got the courage to actually walk up to him. I took out my wallet first for the receipt and asked in Chinese, «Are you stalking me?» He completely ignored me like I was NONEXISTENT. WHAT??? I rose my voice and asked again. Ignored. I loudly said, «I have a receipt, do you want to check my bag?» Ignored. «Why are you following me?» Ignored. What kind of person is this?
I got even angrier and talked to the other coowner of this store. Returned everything I bought. Never coming back EVER again. Neither are my family. Well played.

Decent Chinese supermarket. It isn’t super large, so their selection isn’t either. The vegetables are not the cleanest or the freshest. My gf and I have been there many times to shop because it’s what’s convenient, and we’ve both been disappointed at the veggies and the fruits. I still shop there fairly, but mainly because I don’t have too many better/​convenient choices for Asian veggies. The meat section isn’t bad, though. I wish they had more chicken breasts (they had only 6 lbs total when I last went). They have very cheap chicken drumsticks, though, and I like those. The butcher there smokes right outside the front door on his smoke breaks, and the smoke travels into the market, so that’s a bummer.
Verdict: shop here if it’s convenient.

Sometimes I’ll see non-​Asians coming here out of sheer curiosity, a good thing, up until it gets insultingly anthropological.
A word to those being adventurous and wanting to buy some new vegetable for some fun recipe – go to H-​mart or maybe even C-​mart. The amount of sad wilty looking produce here makes it someplace to look for a decent deal, but only if you’re confident in your ability to choose a good specimen. And all the discerning old grandmas have probably already had their pick.

We wondered into this back alley supermarket in Chinatown named Jia Ho Supermarket. They have a small back entrance that is opened, but somehow their bigger entrance was closed on Washington St.
Market itself had decent size, probably one-​sixth of a warehouse store. They have quite a selection of fresh seafood, but other products seem a bit lacking and actually pricier than back home in the rural area. I guess logistic in Boston is very bad?
They also close quite early, they started closing and turning off all the lights while the sun was still up outside. We were hassled to checkout and left the store.

So glad there is a grocery store here again. It is nicely stocked with lots and lots of fresh produce and fish. I agree with reviewer who pointed out that it is much cleaner and brighter than the old C Mart that was at the location before it closed. We go this store almost every time we are in Chinatown, and were upset when the CMart closed. We’d been going all the way out to Burlington to H Mart, where the prices are much higher and the parking no easier than in Chinatown.
In response to the person who is worried about «out of date», keep in mind that for many items an expiration date is pretty meaningless.

Has a pretty good selection of foods typically found at an Asian grocery store. It’s not huge so they don’t have everything, but it’s not tiny so you will probably find something in the category you are looking for. This location used to be a C-​Mart, and it is definitely cleaner and brighter now. Sometimes it’s fun just to browse through all the imported snacks packaged with bizarre marketing messages and dried foodstuffs you don’t find in most American grocery stores. My favorite thing to do is to get some frozen dumplings and buns and things and make Dim Sum happen at home. Yum!

Be sure to check the expiration date on the package, tons of stuffs there were expired.

I was looking for a place to get some Asian veggies after lunch one Sat since I was in Chinatown. I saw a lot of people walking around with the red plastic bags and tried to figure out where they were coming from. After almost giving up hope on finding the place I saw their entrance in a little alleyway. YES!
It’s a decent sized supermarket with the staple Chinese fare. I think their frozen section is a little small though. They have a lot of fresh fish/​seafood! I remember looking down at some tanks they have on the ground level and they have HUGE fish. Like… who buys those? Lol.
Their veggies are pretty fresh and the prices are reasonable. Haven’t tried too much of their fruit tho. They have also have a good variety of sauces and canned fruits like logan and lychee.
Oh, there are two entrances to this place. One side has like 4 registers and the one on the Washington only has one register so it usually takes a lot longer…

Great selection, much much much cleaner than the C-​Mart that was here previously