La Coma Market

La Coma Market is sort of a seedy, somewhat dirty, dump of a grocery market specializing in cheap foods with a particular Haitian/​Caribbean ethnic bent. Hence, I would not recommend it except to the most experienced of shoppers capable of spotting quality at a glance and knowing their way about the maze of ethnic ingredients.
Some of the patrons also tend to be on the «iffy» side of life as several times I have been offered cheap cell phones, so-​called diamond rings and watches by other customers of the market, some of whom politely approach me with the «excuse me sir» routine and others just with the attention getting «hey (then a reference to the light color of my skin),» or once with the «I gots someth’n outside you longhair folks like;» to which I didn’t respond as I’m sure he wasn’t talking hair gel.
However, those are the exceptions as by far most of the patrons are merely grocery shoppers looking for bargain prices in ethnic foods, such as frozen octopus, hog hocks, turkey necks, goat, plantain, assorted chili peppers and the like.