Yue Kee Grocery

Oh go on then. Might aswell pay homage to my favourite Asian grocery store in Adelaide.
The staff are extremely friendly and helpful, and the place stocks most, if not all the Asian ingredients you might hope to ever need for your home cooking needs. It does help if you speak Cantonese or Mandarin, but the owners are equally conversant in English.
Rows of fresh greens and melons, noodles, and chinese sausages, aswell as spices and condiments; and around at the far end, all the kitchen utensils you might want for your own dinner party experience. There is even a wall selection of Asian DVDs if it tickles your fancy.
Yue Kee’s is cheaper than the other Chinatown highstreet supermarkets and as mentioned in a previous review, not as busy. But I’ll tell you why. Their main customers are actually the many restaurants in and outside of Chinatown. They get up very early in the morning, buy in bulk and deliver goods in their bright yellow van. If you stand around long enough you will see local restaurant owners popping in for those last minute ingredients before they open up shop.
Quality goods at very good prices. Treat it as your own wholesalers, as much of Gouger Street already does.
Would definitely recommend this place seeing as I’m here at least once a week to refill.

There’s that dreaded three-​star review again. It’s not a bad review, by any means, but if you’ve come on here to read review you are looking for a recommendation, and unless you see a four or a five, you’re not to bother with the place.
So, by that logic, I don’t even need to explain the three-​star review. But I shall. Don’t ask me why. I’m probably not meant to say.
If you hate eating Asian takeaway, or at Asian restaurants, little supermarkets like this provide you with the means and instruments to have Asian food homemade. And they say nothing beats homemade. Which is a fallacy. You know what beats homemade? This:
It’s a riddle. Only, I didn’t give you much chance to guess the answer.
Aside from that, there’s nothing special about the place. Not that you’d expect there to be. Indeed, this supermarket is precisely what you’d expect it to be. It’s perfectly capable of fulfilling its function. Does that mean it deserves a five-​star review? I don’t know. It’s one of life’s most perplexing (and important) conundrums.

Another secret just slightly off the main track, but worth stepping over and into if you are looking for bargains and special atmosphere. It is only a supermarket of Asian grocery, but it is jam packed with everything you need and the hours are not set in stone, though they favour the earlier part of the day — sometimes the owners are open at five in the morning some times a little later.
There is all the usual stuff, cock, chili, pepper, chicken, duck, soups and noodles, oils, flours, frozen flour goods; everything you require for Chinese cooking or pretty much any Asian cooking. Fresh vegetables and lots of character. Possibly slightly cheaper for you if you come from one of the Asian countries. I know, that seems rather odd doesn’t it, but I do think there’s a discount on some greens if you know the language let me put it that way.
I almost always would pop in here to get my odds and ends for laksa and noodle soups or stir fry because it is not as busy as most of the other Asian groceries around, and yet they do have a steady flow of customers — not so many tourists I think!