Sun Hop Fat 1 Supermarket

I’ve been here for years but things changed. Beware when you step into this place:
1. CHECK the quality of the produce/​meat/​drinks and everything else. They may be expired or molded.
2. ASK the cashier for a price check if the item does not have a sticker price… Why should you? Check #4 and #5.
3. CALCULATE about how much your total cost of groceries BEFORE you get in line to pay. Why is this important? Read #4 and #5.
4. Check your RECEIPT BEFORE you leave the store. The cashier might make you pay more than for what you buy. They made me, my family, and other customers pay more as much as $ 40. Sometimes if there are 2 similar products (most of the time it’s oranges and grapes) being sold at different prices, the cashier may charge you at a higher price.
5. When you get your CHANGE, DO NOT put them in your pocket/​wallet yet! Sometimes they didn’t give you enough change. If you come back to the cashier about this issue, they will say something like «I saw you put your money in your wallet, so you’re possibly lying to me to get more money» or «I want to check your wallet because I know you hide the change I gave you in your wallet.»
If you want to speak to the manager, be ready to wait for a full 15 minute.
Some people there are nice, some of them are questionable. Take care.

This Store is great if you want to make a pot of gumbo with live crab. I don’t think I would purchase any fruit’s or veggies from here. And they also have several different style noodles which is great. Customer service not that great so it’s kind of good to know what you want before you get there.

Came here looking for proper mi noodles and Thai basil. Found both.
Not the washed and bleached experience of Whole Foods. More the ‘raw food’ experience that real cooks crave.
Will be back soon to restock.

Since this is the only one source I know in Oakland to buy the Vietnamese mint and other herbs, I must go there but I am fully unhappy for their customer services (mostly the front staffs). I actually appreciate and respect these men behind the fish department as they provide good services and they responded with decency.
I give them 5 stars and this place zero star.

This place is my Asian local supermarket
I would come here for the meat and other stuff but never would i buy fruits from this place. they have molds everywhere in the oranges, apples, peach, pears and mangos it was horrible.

Read this article about the owner and make your own judgement! smh.

Have been going there since 2007. Liked their fresh fishes. But the meat corner kinda stinks. The owner is so friendly but the staffs speak limited English. Overall, not too bad.

This place is awful, the cashier does not speak English, they Don’t accept credit cards? Hello do you know where you are? Most people don’t like to use cash as a method of payment. Fix these problems or get out of here you are not wanted in this neighborhood.

Talking about selling expired stuffs. I was getting some thai ingredients and found that its been expired 2 years ago! The place is dirty too!

Small market, but prob has most of what you’re looking for. Produce is pretty fresh, but my tofu was not. :(I bought some fried tofu and when I cut it open at home, it was slightly pink and smelled a bit sour. Needless to say I threw it away. I’m still on the hunt for a good Asian market in this town.

This place don’t want to sell stuffs to you mang. We came around 6 to get some beef for phở but the guy said they don’t want to slice them. It’s doesn’t even take that long to clean the machine!

This supermarket is pretty big. They have wide variety of food and their meat and seafood are fresh. Don’t expect black tie service (although I did see them help other customers carry out rice bags and boxes of groceries to their cars) and don’t expect any cleanliness. They have pretty much all the asian variety you can find and can be your one stop shop.
Nonetheless their prices are cheaper than other places. For example, the Vietnamese coffee I buy they sell for $ 4.49; other places in the area sell for $ 4.99 and Ranch 99 sell it for $ 5.99. Their condensed milk regular price I found was cheaper than their neighbors special price. For their meat and seafood, it can be a hit or miss.
One downside is that they DO NOT take credit card, only debit.

Asian supermarket, awesome! This place has a huge meat market as well as sea food l come here for the huge oysters in shell and crab. Crab was 2.99lb come on now you can’t beat that with a price reduction bat! They even clean it for no additional charge. When u get hm there are still guts attached but he’ll ill wash it off for 2.99lb it is sometimes hard to communicate with employees bc of diff language. But I use body language lol n they get it.

I love grocery shopping at Asian supermarkets. I’ve forgotten how cheaper they are compared to big chain stores especially when it comes to Poultries, meats & veggies. You looking for affordable prices, they have it. Wide selection of ramen/​noodles which is one of the main reasons I shop at Asian supermarkets. Asians snacks are always a plus. They have their own parking lot. It’s a bit small but a lot better than driving around the block looking for parking.

*Potsticker recipe included* You know how some people crave potato chips or chocolate or both together (what up with that!)? Well I always crave potstickers. After eating one too many sub-​par frozen potstickers I Googled a few recipes and we headed down to Sun Hop Fat 1 Supermarket.
Here’s what you should know about this ethnic grocery: JAMAICANS rejoice — they carry oxtail, tripe, goat meat, green & yellow plantains. Standing near the cut of meat you want at the counter in the back & keeping eye contact will ensure that you don’t get passed over for service. They’ll cut the meat to order (ie: we ordered some beef for Phở and they cut it really thin as requested.). The parking lot is an indicator of what it’ll be like in the store; if ya see a ton’o cars, its busy! While you won’t find friendly smiles and easy to navigate aisles, you will get a well stocked store and fresh produce & meat. And who doesn’t want that?
Now onto the recipe: Pork/​Beef & Ginger Potstickers:
Ingredients:
2 cups Napa cabbage, finely chopped
½ pound ground pork or beef (not too lean)
1 small carrot, coarsely shredded (about 2 tablespoons)
2 scallions, thinly sliced (about ¼ cup) green & white parts
1.5 tablespoon fresh ginger, minced (from ½-​inch knob) I really like ginger
2 cloves fresh garlic, minced (about 1tbl)
2 tablespoon soy sauce
2 tablespoon Asian sesame oil
1 tablespoon Sriracha
2 teaspoon sugar
¾ teaspoon salt .
¹⁄₈ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
½ egg, lightly beaten (Optional: You get a juicier potstickers w/​o it, but w/​it the chances of your potsticker not breaking is higher)
1 (14-​ounce) package potsticker wrappers (I recommend the round ones or large square ones)
5 tablespoons vegetable oil
¾ c ups water
Preparation:
* In large bowl, toss together cabbage and ¾ teaspoon salt and set aside for 30 minutes. Transfer to clean dish towel or cheesecloth, gather ends together, and twist to squeeze out as much water as possible. Wipe bowl clean, then return cabbage to it.
* Add pork, ginger, carrots, scallions, and garlic and stir to combine.
* In small bowl, whisk together soy sauce, sesame oil, Sriracha, sugar, pepper and egg; then stir into cabbage-​pork/​beef mixture.
* On dry surface, lay out 1 potsticker wrapper, keeping remaining wrappers covered with dampened cloth or paper towel.
* Place a 1.5 teaspoons of the pork/​beef mixture into each of the potsticker wrappers. Fold the wrappers, and seal the edges with a moistened fork. (I suggest watching a video on how to fold these correctly as I failed miserably!)
* In a large, deep skillet (I suggest a non-​stick pan to ensure that nothing sticks), heat 3 tablespoons vegetable oil over medium high heat. Place the pot stickers into the oil seam sides up. Heat a minute or until the bottoms are a light golden brown. Pour water into the skillet (carefully to avoid splatter). Gently boil 7 to 8 minutes, until oil and water begins to sizzle, then add remaining oil. When the bottoms begin to brown, remove pot stickers from heat.
Makes about 30 potstickers. This is a spicier modified version of Ming Tsai’s recipe
combined with this recipe:
. The filling I came up with is delicious, now if I could only figure out how to fold these puppies better they’d be perfect! If you make them, let me know how they turn out.
** Sun Hop Fat 1 Supermarket is more 3.5 stars than 3stars.

This Sun Hop Fat could do a better job of keeping a nice rotation of their stock to ensure that they don’t end up selling spoiled food. While I do come here when I need some vegetables real quick since I live in the area, I can’t help but feel like I often see quite a few of the same exact items on the shelf month after month. It’s a little disturbing as to how old some of the items in their refrigerated and frozen section might be. Yes, some items last for a long time and the expiration dates may be referred to, but there are just some things that shouldn’t be there.
I wanted to stock up on a quick noodle meal and decided to get a packet of Japanese noodles from their refrigerated section. When I went home to proceed to cook it, I found that the noodles were moldy. I was very disappointed because it should not be that hard to maintain some instant noodles. Four bucks gone to waste!
I find it difficult to communicate with the cashiers and workers here because they seem to have a hard time understanding English. It makes it hard to have good customer service if there is a language communication barrier.
This difficulty in communication is why I am not even bothering to get a refund. I just won’t go there anymore unless I REALLY need to. There are plenty other markets in the area that serve as my option.
Oh and $ 0.75 charge on top of your total if you’re using an ATM card. Useful if you really need an item but don’t have cash, but it would be nice to have a minimum charge instead.

Pretty typical Asian supermarket. Has all your vietnamese, chinese, thai items scattered all over the place. I do love that theres a parking lot…
However, this place just feels dirty all the time… like they need a deep cleaning… and maybe get better fridges for their meat. and their veggies dont always look fresh either… ehhhhhhhhh.
This definitely isn’t my number one choice for groceries… =X

This girl keeps rambling on in my car. Makeup, work, problems, and so on. I have a lot of patience. Getting yelled at work, people messing up, ignorant people, I can take it all.
This place actually sparked a reaction in me. Overall store is ok. Veggies good price. Alot of seasonings and ingredients to make most Asian dishes. They take credit? Awesome.
But the meat dept. Omg I wanted to scream. I stand right front of the guy and he looks the other way and helps someone else. Ok maybe she was first. Then it happens two more times. Look homie. I’m right here. I literally had to get ghetto to get help. Took his sweet time. Grrrr. Alright maybe he had a bad day. Then I come in again the next day to buy meat for the big game. Should’ve learned my lesson. This guy does it again. He helps two other people that came after me. Look DAWG, two in a row is unforgivable. I scream «hey 5 pounds spareribs». I think the owner heard. Everyone else in this place is so nice. They even remember my neice, nephew and mom. If you don’t like your job then leave. You can’t do that to customers, which basically hurts the owners for business, then you might not have a job.
Someone give me 5 shots of jameson stat!

Easy to get in and out, if you can find on street parking, the parking lot scares me. I like to get bulk tofu, veggies, green onions, ginger, + kitchen and house wares here. They have huge receptacles for cooking in, glass storage wear with plastic lids that snap on, etc. Beverages and more than I can believe fits in this store! Fish and Meat counter.
Look up for more electronics and other items. I got a toilet bowl brush/​container here. The title of the little poem on the baby blue plastic container reads– ‘The Beautiful Life of Family’ and it’s all about 3 Bears.

Good to buy:
Chicken-​y chicken. Where do they get this stuff? It tastes like the chickens I plucked and slaughtered myself as a child on a sustainable farm.
Fish. Any Chinese or Vietnamese fresh food. Vegetables.
Avoid American food– check the expiration dates or you’ll get serious stale crap. Mealy Appples. Even the organic ones.
Once the owner fed my dog a sausage and he spit it out. My dog is a stray I picked up in Mexico, so this act was unthinkable.
50 cent fee for debit and credit cards.