Pang Kee Bargain Market

This store too small, even though is a cheap store. The owners has a huge attitude problems if there’s many questions to ask, they don’t accept credit cards/​debit cards because of what have happened before many years ago. Cigarettes are sold with cash now a days because of what happened many years ago, the owners let customers charged cigarettes on their food stamps cards. So from that point on after they ruined the policy, they chose not to use the credit card/​debit cards machines for any customers. That’s the story behind why customers can’t use their credit card/​debit cards to make transactions

Pang Kee is a one stop store for all your Chinese/​Asian foodstuffs. Before you enter the store, the outside of the store has a large display of various snacks, cookies, can beverages, etc. In the store, there are four aisles, consisting of snacks, sweets and cookies to Chinese/​Asian condiments, spices, sauces, can goods to instant noodles and dried foodstuffs to some frozen items, teas and gelatins.
Overall, a good one-​stop shop for all your Asian snacks, condiments and foodstuffs. The workers are friendly. Maybe one negative is that the aisles are narrow and can be impassable if the store is crowded.

I like this store I go there whenever I am in town. They have a great selection of crackers and sauces that all I buy there. I don’t think I have ever bought anything there that was more than $ 1.50. Everything I have seen is super cheap.

I come here every Sunday I like buying stuff from snacks, sauces, drinks sweets, instant noodles, bowel noodle, cup noodles they have everything. If you are a tourist from out state or you from other cities in California, or from another country and you are visiting the whole entire sanfrancisco city had just banned plastic bags so you will have 2 bring your own reusable bag

Pang Kee has got it all when it comes to Asian snacks and sauces, for a very a good price, and you know that’s true since my mom has been taking me here since I was a little kid.
While mom goes and buys their sauces, spices and other items, I spend my time in the aisle of snacks and goodies, full of crackers, cookies, and candies galore.
The owners here are also very friendly.

I love this place! It’s hands down the best place to buy Asian snacks in Chinatown. I’ve been going here pretty much my entire life and it’s been the same people working there for as long as I can remember. The things that I generally get here are bulk orders of noodle bowls/​packs, assorted Japanese cookies/​candies, Philippine brand dried mangos, Vitasoy box drinks, and various Asian sauces. They offer great prices that are a bargain compared to other shops in Chinatown. They are easily $ 0.50 or so cheaper than other places on some of their items. Their English is limited but as long as you know what you want they are able to tell you the price for your purchase. Recently they’ve been offering Vietnamese lunch cartons with fresh spring rolls, grilled pork, rice, vermicelli noodles, fried egg rolls, etc. They smell really good so I’ll have to try one the next time I drop by.

Passed by this place when going back to my car and decided to go in when I wanted some ginger candy. I was overhearing the cashier boast about how cheap their prices were compared to others. So I walked about and started looking and sure enough seen some items that were cheaper. So I grabbed myself a bag a wasbi shrimp chips for $ 1.19, 2 bags of peanuts for $.89 each and a bag of ginger for $ 1.79.

Pang Kee Market has candies, cookies, fruit drinks etc. in crates and boxes literally blocking the sidewalk. not as bad as oaktown nor a block over at the produce markets on stockton st. near the ping yuen housing units but it’s noticeable.
been inside before, they have a vast assortment of bulk candies, dried fruits, etc to choose from.
felt fhirsty. saw some fruit type drinks
Drink: grab a can of guava juice (.50) paid the guy watching out for shoplifters and went on my way. tasted as good as any bobba drink i could have gotten elsewhere.

Just stopped in to pick up some loose tea and Chinese snacks. They have a good seletion of products. As with many shops in Chinatown the isles are narrow, hard to pass other shoppers. I bought some Lichee tea, and rice cakes. I thought the price was very good. I just wish I could read Chinese so I would know what many of the other products they had were. Someday.
Overall a very clean yet compact store.

I would have to say this place sells the cheapest snacks in Chinatown and the name «Pang Kee» says it all CHEAP. This place has a big variety of food, candy, drinks, and ETC. I would usually come here after school to get a drink and some ships.

i am in love with this place!
i use to come here almost every other day when i lived up the block from Pang Kee! they have a the largest variety of asian snacks in chinatown. you can find almost anything here, and they are also the cheapest you’ll find. they sell everything from candy to can food to instant noodle. my house was never running low in stock with this place around. now that i don’t live in the area, i hardly get to come here and stock up. but when i do, its all bad! i get bags full of snacks and instant noodles =)
the aisles here are pretty narrow, it’s really more of a 1 person aisle because where theres 2, you’re bond to be bumping backs.
PANG KEE FTW! =)

I came here again a couple of times this past week to shop. I didn’t buy anything but did notice for myself that prices overall are less now that I compared with recent shopping trips at other stores. One big example, a bag of Calbee tomato flavored chips I bought at New May Wah on Clement Street costed (I think) over $ 3.25; here it was $ 2.75. My friend’s mom loves shopping here on weekend Chinatown trips.

One of my favorite go to places in Chinatown for cheap snacks. There are aisles and aisles of snacks, sauces, food, instant noodles etc. The prices here are pretty cheap relative to other Chinatown stores (if that’s even possible) and they always have a bunch of cookies/​snacks pile outside the storefront that will tempt you into going inside.
Be careful if you carry a big purse though especially in the sauce aisle, the aisles here are SO narrow only half of you can fit inside. Don’t bother asking the workers here where things are, half of the time they’ll just point to some random space in the store as a way of getting you to leave them alone.

Love this place!
I can get plenty of snacks and ingredients for cooking. The downside is the small aisles.

Candy Land! For chinese kiddos that is. To me it’s like a strange travel experience in an asian country when you step throug the doors. Brightly colored packages of processed food galore awaits you, but if you are like me you have pretty much no clue what anything is or claims to be. We came here in search of a special mochi candy treat and they were out so we had to get a larger (not as good) alternative. However walking down the isles left me very intrigued to come back to try to experiment with more possibilities of hidden sugar treasures I may have been missing out on during my childhood in America. I will venture back next time I’ve got a sweet tooth to attempt to find my next favorite strange textured sugary (bad for me) treat.

Shopping in Chinatown you quickly learn to abide by the unspoken rules.
The Basics:
1. Crossing the street diagonally (and sometimes on a red light) is perfectly acceptable.
2. 5 PM is when mass grocery mayhem hits. Join the crowd or get the hell outta the way!
3. Use cash only. (‘Nuff said about that one!)
The Extras:
4. Don’t wear flip flops because that’s gross, just trust me!
5. It’s pink plastic bags aplenty here. Save a bag and bring your own.
6. My personal rule: If you can’t read it, try it anyways!
I have the most fun trying out foods that I can’t pronounce or can only vaguely guess at their contents. Sometimes this technique has yielded wonderful discoveries. Other times it has sent me running like a mad woman for a glass of any kind of liquid. (Word to the wise, not all Chinese candies are sweet or would even be considered candy by Western definition.)
Well, I’m just going to say it. My pet peeve at big grocery store chains is entering the «Ethnic Section» for anything beyond the norm. I love that places like Pang Kee have Asian (not just Chinese) snacks that are otherwise unheard of, not unreasonably marked up, and I don’t feel like a freak of nature for shopping there! It’s perfect for stocking up on pre-​packaged items: cookies, cakes, candies, nuts, chips, crackers, sauces and canned goods. It’s a relatively clean store and being right off Broadway it’s also fairly easy to find.
My latest discovery is that they carry my favorite instant hot sesame dessert. Back in college, one of my roommates used to refer to this black, sandy concoction as «Dirt Soup.» Doubters, just hand that bowl over to me! I’m also totally hooked on red bean: in boba drinks, puddings, whole, or crushed inside a mochi or jin dui, I LOVE IT! My favorite thing to do is to buy the canned paste version (available at Pang Kee) and then spread it on English muffins like jam. That’s what I call the modern version of a red bean bao. Hmm, wonder if that goes with peanut butter…
I remember being in this market around Christmas time. Standing in the snack section, I listened to two girls sing Frosty the Snowman in Cantonese. Minutes before I had been inside an Italian deli in North Beach and listened to Frank Sinatra singing the very same thing. It was a near perfect San Francisco moment.

Love this store! I go here to buy all my «must have» Asian junkfood. I had another store in the Richmond district but they suck ass! The workers are so paranoid. Yea… I’m really going to steal that $ 2 bag of candy. Then they feel so moded each time when I buy a FULL basket of goods.
Okay back to my #1 store… Pang Kee. I’m 100% Chinese but don’t look like it. Almost everyone thinks I’m Filipina. Anyways I buy whatever goods I can fit into my two arms. I usually go before work so when I get to the register to pay, I say «good morning» in Cantonese and sometimes they give me a surprised look. So funny. Or maybe they’re not used to people greeting them since almost all of their patrons are Chinese. LOL! Whatever the case may be, they are so nice. I just love to watch their fingers fly while typing in the prices.
Everytime I walk by this store, I always, ALWAYS have to look at their goods outside of the store. Then I make my way in and go left. That is where all the yummy goods are kept.
They have almost all of the Pocky flavors. If you see Meiji’s white chocolate meltaways, you MUST get it. They are soooo good. It’s my favorite flavor of the meltaway family.
Products here are pretty cheap/​reasonable.
This is Chinatown so yes… CASH only.
Parking? Um, you’re in Chinatown… good luck! There are a few parking garages but really, how much time can you spend in Chinatown? I say walk there or take the 30 Stockton or 45 Greenwich bus.
I hope they never close this store.

One of the few, as well as first, large markets in Chinatown. It’s about 2 stores combined into one. Like many other in the area, they use the outside as part of the store and have many items to attract customers. Of course, space is premium and every potential spot is room for inventory and more ways for income.
They carry a lot of everything and at better prices than a lot of smaller stores. The store is very tightly packed with boxes taking over aisles and you’ll need to go sideway to accommodate other customers browsing and shopping. Besides all the standard grocery, they also sell quite a bit of fresh noodles and Vietnamese items like the pork loaf and such next to the registers.
They have this individually packed crackers my mom likes at only $ 1.09/package.

Here’s a bargain tip from your Recessionista: Morton’s iodized salt for 39cents.
You’re welcome.
Disclaimer: Beware of pushy old grandmas, in the aisles, in line, in the doorways, on the sidewalks, crossing the street, getting on the bus, on the bus, and getting off of the bus.

For all the Cantonese speakers out there: Pang Kee is HO PANG UH!!!
I have never seen another store in SF that sells imported snacks from Japan as cheap as they do in PK. As a matter of fact, it’s so cheap that I don’t mind pushing down old ladies to get to my mango gummy.
They also have an excellent variety of sauces, desserts, and teas.