T&T Supermarket

Good store for chinese groceries and the hot food deli has some nice things for takeout. Downside is the lack of parking at their locations and the poor customer service if you aren’t asian.
South side and wem locations i have stopped going to because the parking lots are always full.
As well if you are needing information from staff and you don’t speak mandarin or whatever you are out of luck because all the staff is asian.
You just get blank stare if you ask a question in english.
Another thing is that i would be careful when buying fresh chicken from their meat department .
I bought a few pounds of bulk chicken wings once and when i opened the bag the next day to cook them they were bad.

Great selection. Bright and easy to find set up. Good improvement overall. Excellent quality and selection for take out

This is my go to Asian supermarket. It’s conveniently located in WEM above bourbon street and so easily accessible from both the parkade and the mall. In addition to the huge supermarket, they also have a bubble tea and phở place attached.
I can find almost anything I want here. From spices to dry goods to produce and seafood, this T&T has it all. They even have a bakery and fresh dim sum stand! They have imports from all over Asia and their prices are very comparable.
Walking into this shop feels like I walked into a different country. There are so many little treats and foods that remind me of being back in Hong Kong that I always try to stop in here when I’m at the mall!

I came here bright & early today (Friday morning), when the store opened at 9am. There were quite a few people already waiting to enter, and as it turns out, they were waiting mostly to get their daily Chinese paper from the store, before heading back out.
T&T offers pretty much a one-​stop shop for all your asian grocery-​related needs! This location, and the Northtown location are my first choices when getting groceries for those reasons.
The great thing about going early is the lack of crowds of course, as it can get extremely busy with tons of people shopping & eating here.
The problem with going early is that many of the ready-​to-​eat foods are actually not ready (including the bbq-​meats) so if you were hoping to get certain foods to go early in the day, you’re out of luck.
They have fresh produce, veggies, seafood, breads and pastries. Ready-​to-​eat items include a variety of sushi-​related items, rice bowls, dim sum, Chinese fast food, Vietnamese salad rolls, Chinese cold salads, hot noodle bowls, congee & steamed buns.
If you’re not familiar with Asian grocery stores, then this place will be quite the eye opener I suspect. Go anyways as it’ll be entertaining to see all the weird and wonderful things available for consumption =)

I heart T&T. Sometimes it’s a drag to find parking but it’s worth it, considering they always carry everything I need and more. Seriously, they even have parrot fish! I bought 4 fresh large oysters and 4 large clams yesterday and it came to around $ 10– they often have fresh items on special. T&T fulfills my Asian grocery needs 100%, and their baked breads are always fresh and pillowy. FYI, asian doughs are partially cooked before baking– part of the reason why they taste so yummy!

When it comes to transit accessible Asian grocery stores, T&T Supermarket in West Edmonton Mall certainly fits the bill. While I’m occasionally overwhelmed by the options (and often only buy things if my purchases are actually planned in advance) this is a great place to stop for treats (like Pocky or a steam bun or mochi or something) and they do have a sushi section (but I honestly prefer actual sushi restaurants — even the mediocre ones — to grocery store sushi, even when there’s this much variety here).
I like the variety of fruits and veggies, noodles, and other staple foods that are harder to acquire in more mainstream supermarkets. That said pricing can be variable, and it often feels like a bit of a foreign experience if you’re used to shopping at more mainstream supermarkets, so be prepared for things to be a bit different.
Staff are generally pretty friendly. I once volunteered at a charitable gift wrap in this location and they were really great while we were there. I always wish that it carried more Japanese foods but it’s not a Japanese supermarket, rather it focuses more on Chinese foods even though it carries foods from all over Asia as well as foods that are available more commonly in North American and elsewhere.

T&T Supermarket has come a long way when it comes to their baked goods. They’ve improved their texture and designs, which is wonderful. We ordered a small 10″ chestnut cake for $ 30 (minus 10% for ordering it early). It was delicious — fresh cream, light and spongy, and you could taste the chestnut. We ordered it for Christmas and asked for a Christmas themed cake and they threw on decorations, including the edible snowman.
They also have these flavoured Swiss rolls for about $ 4-​$ 6. I’ve tried the lychee and passion fruit rolls and they you can take the fruit in the cream.
Their buns are fresh tasting too. Buy 6 or more and they don’t count tax.
They have a wide variety of breads — we normally get the raisin wheel loaf to toast at home and apply butter.
T&T Supermarket bakery goods are a good competition for Garden Bakery inside WEM, as well as the other bakery places in Chinatown.

Shopping here is an interesting experience. I always find something I’ve never seen or heard of before. My husband and I keep telling ourselves we’re going to go in one day, and buy everything we need for supper, but it’s going to be things we have no idea what they are, or how to cook them. Yeah, one of these days.
There’s an endless variety of cool things to investigate, just pick a section. I like the Meat Department, with their variety of fresh, frozen and live foods. I actually like the way it smells. It smells like fish and seafood, but not of rotting meat or bleach.
I feel the need to point out, if certain meat products offend you, you might want to be wary. Some things you find might gross you out or upset you. My husband found whole frozen turtle today, shell and all.
I keep finding more foods I love. I just stocked up on packages of instant miso soup, and frozen seaweed salad. I forgot to grab some, but another of my favorites is the green tea flavored Aero bites. LOVE those!
Something else I should remind myself of is their hot and cold food to go. You can get Dim Sum, rice dishes, Udon, green onion cake, sushi and of course sashimi. There’s so much more. I always forget that I can just grab reasonably priced sashimi for lunch… and maybe a whole roasted duck for dinner!

Here’s what I saw at West Edmonton Mall T&T today.
At lunch time, I went to pick up some meat and chose pre-​wrapped smoked chicken platter at T&T meat section. I paid and left. A few minutes later when I sat down to have my lunch (I work at the Mall) I discovered that chicken was thoroughly uncooked. Brown liquid (blood) was dripping off the platter and the bones and meat at the bottom of the chicken were red. Not pink. They were red. After turning over a few pieces I found out that most of chicken was the same quality so I went back to the store to return the chicken and get a refund.
The cashier refunded the cost. The next moment I see her, she it trying to scratch the green sticker off the platter, that you put to mark product as paid. I start realizing that she wants to sell the same chicken to someone who won’t go into trouble returning to the store and getting a refund. She is unsuccessful at scratching it off, and she calls another staff to rewrap the chicken and return it to the meat section (!!!). I’m curious so I get back to the meat section. Guess what. My chicken has been re-​wrapped by the T&T staff who sells smoked meat and he put it back to other meat platters. I’m looking at him and saying: «You cannot sell this chicken. I returned it because it was uncooked». He’s smiling at me: «Is it your chicken?» I repeat: «I just returned this chicken because it has blood in it. Throw this out, you cannot sell the same product again». He makes a face, takes this chicken and demonstratively throws it into garbage”.
The end of the story. I’ve been shopping at T&T for lunches and groceries for over a year as I always liked their take-​away sushi, smoked duck and fruit/​vegetables selection. Now buying raw fish or cold meat is just scary. Re-​wrapping the chicken that the customer has just returned and putting it back to the counter before I left the store is plain stupid.

This place is so great for a quick bite to eat on the run at the mall or to bring home a few groceries if you’ve been out and about at West Ed.
Be careful of the prices because some things are greatly overpriced but you will also find some steals of a deal!
Love the Bubble Tea place right inside & they make FRESH PEAR Bubble Tea — only place I have ever found it!
There is a huge spice market full of all kinds of things that are unknown to me :-)
Love the bakery — Mmm… Egg tarts are divine and the steamed buns are always fresh and good for a bite on the go.
I also like to pick up the BBQ’d pork that hangs in the glass case when you enter from the mall side. It’s great for a snack, thrown in a stir fry, chopped up for homemade fried rice, as the meat on your salad, or to keep your toddler from having a hissy fit when starving and you’re in a rush :-)
Yay for T&T!

While I wouldn‘t buy normal groceries here (as prices tend to be higher), when needing that unusual Asian ingredient, this is the place to go! Even more so if you live on the west end! I come here every couple months for my matcha stock up and if shopping at the mall might grab a bubble tea.
Now one thing that surprised me was that a lot of workers do not speech English. While I would expect this in China town, but I was not expecting that at such a populated place like the mall. The reason why I am saying this is because when you are new to T&T it can be difficult to find a specific item and since the workers don‘t understand English it can become frustrating! But still, it is a conveniently located area and great for your asian groceries that normal supermarkets do not sell!
Also! Try their hot food! It is cheaper and better than normal takeout!!!

I buy mostly cooked food. Their prices are considerably higher than Superstore for the same items in groceries, but obviously there is a greater variety of Asian foods here. Their variety of cooking sauces come in handy for home cooked meals, if you know what to do with them.

This was the sole reason I would visit West Edmonton Mall before they opened up the other location.
Parking can be tricky depending on how busy the mall is (read forget about finding a spot near the shopping season).
I prefer it over the ethnic supermarkets as its clean and the variety is very good.
It a good spot to grab and go for prepared food. I like the seafood section as the prices can quite good if they have promo on.
Service can be hit or miss and some people will just walk by and offer no help.
I guess one doesn’t have much of a choice in Edmonton if you are looking for particular item.

A friend of mine decided that she wanted to make a Japanese soup, so naturally she came to her only Japanese friend for advice. While I probably could have supplied her with the necessary ingredients from my own kitchen, I figured it would be better for her if she learned what to look for in case I’m not around to help her in the future.
So, off to T&T we went. Gotta be honest, from my perspective, walking through that store isn’t any different than heading off to Sobey’s or Save On; I don’t think of it as an «Asian» grocery store, I just think of it as a grocery store.
However, watching mi amigo wandering through the store with her eyes almost popping out of her head was rather enlightening, and made me do some serious thinking about just how amazing this store is.
Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Indonesian — this store has it all. I do a lot of cooking (again, to me it’s not «Japanese» food, it’s just food), and it’s nice to be able to find everything I need in one place instead of running the gauntlet of the other Asian grocery stores in town.
In keeping with the honesty, I will not buy any meat or fish from this store — knowing what I do about the food safety practices in some parts of Asia, I just won’t risk it. Dry goods, produce, and packaged/​frozen stuff, yes. Meat and fish, hell no.
Oh, and since some folks care about this sort of thing, I find the prices to be reasonable for the items that I tend to buy. Buying «ethnic» groceries is always going to be more expensive than the «regular» stuff, but at T&T, I find the difference to be negligible.

The best aspects of having T&T in West Edmonton Mall is that it’s convenient and they have a variety of fresh food and groceries. The negatives are the long lines and not very good customer service.
T&T also offers food tasting stations on Saturdays but that’s one of their busiest days, even in the morning. I do like they sell sushi, dim sum, buns, bbq meats, Vietnamese subs and salad rolls, and the prepared Chinese dishes. For less than the food court, one could get soup, rice, and two, three, or four items. Often there is enough food in the two items for me to share. I like the lemon chicken, beef brisket, bean curd, and tofu with bbq pork.
In the fresh meat department and produce sections, I find the prices are cheaper than most grocery stores. The packaged meat can be very expensive though, last time I check chicken breast was more than $ 7/​lb!
I like the rice combos but I don’t always like to eat in the seating area. It can be quite dirty as there’s not always enough staff to clean up. The garbage area is disgusting but I shouldn’t expect more for where garbage is placed.

T&T is great. They sell a lot of varieties of ramen noodles, which is great for poor students like me. They also always have small pastries for $ 1 – 3 that you can buy if you want a little treat but not too much. Some of the cake slices they sell are the same cakes you get in some restaurants, but around half the price. The downside to this market is that it is always crowded and the line ups take forever to get through.

I have a love hate relationship with T&T.
LOVE that it’s in the west end and i don’t have to drive all the way downtown.
2. T&T has the most variety of fresh Asian produce.
3. They have a large selection of dry and frozen goods.
4. Great bakery and cooked goods; Bun Bao.
HATE it because people are so rude, especially when it’s jam packed in the weekends; like sardine cans.
2. Customer service is aweful; meat department. They don’t acknowledge that you’re standing there for 5mins, or they act like they have better things to do.
3. The cash line is so slow because cashier’s talking to customers or their friend.
4. Old ladies always try to bud in-​line, some pretend they don’t speak English or they just don’t care and are rude.
5. Lastly, the place smells like toilet.

I LOVE T&T!!! I love ethnic food markets but this one is so much more.
They have several different ready-​to-​eat counters — the one along the wall near the bakery has a fantastic selection of food — you have to try the beef brisket stew with vegetable (can’t remember what vegetable it is, could be Chinese carrot — and be warned — the meat is a little fatty and chewy but that it’s my favourite), or spicy shrimp (I don’t even bother taking the shell off), or try one of their barbeque combos, which is what I did today — got a mound of rice, veggies, a soy chicken leg, a good chunk of Chinese bbq pork, and a bowl of hot&sour soup, for only $ 6.99! Can’t beat that price for the amount of food you get!
Their sushi is ok — the spicy salmon roll is the best, and they have pretty good salmon sashimi and a pretty good chirashi bowl. They also have really good congee (I don’t know what the seasoning is but it’s soooo tasty), and chicken teriyaki bowls.
They also make a ready-​to-​go series that are different kinds of foods packaged in a little aluminum container and wrapped in plastic wrap, that you can bring home, steam for 20 minutes, and it’s ready. My personal favourite is the black bean garlic spare ribs — better than what you get at dim sum — it’s awesome with a bowl of steamed jasmine rice. The chicken feet and beef tripe are also very good, just like you would get at dim sum.
T&T is great for getting Chinese fruits, veggies, spices, weird cuts of meat (lots of organ meats), everything! They also carry Korean, Japanese, etc food stuff.
Oh you can also buy bags of chicken and pork bones, which are great for making stock. Lots of live fish as well — they have great deals on the weekend on crab and lobster.
So my point is… go! It’s awesome!

T & T Supermarket offers Asian food products that are not available in other stores. Honestly I don’t cook and I don’t even buy anything from here because of that fact but if I did I think I would shop here often. They have so many unique things that you just can’t find elsewhere.
They also have a seafood department where you can find fresh fish, crab, shrimp, etc. They also carry great sauces and noodles that look like they would make great meals. They carry sweet chilli sauce which is great to recreate sweet chilli chicken.
Since it opened in West Edmonton Mall it has become more popular by the year and it makes sense. It offers ingredients not readily available at the regular supermarket. If you are looking to get creative with your cooking and switch things up this is a great place to start.

Ever since T&T opened, there has been very little need to go to downtown Chinatown. Why walk from store to store and fight off city bums and that funky smell then I can just come here? T&T is a one-​stop shopping destination for my Asian cooking needs.
T&T has pretty much everything you could look for when cooking Asian. Their fish is very fresh and you can see your fish swimming around in their tanks, along with lobsters, mussels, eels and other sea animals (see pictures). The meat here is also very good– their bbq is tender and savory. They also have a good selection of fresh vegetables and fruit: whether familiar items like apples, pears, oranges, broccoli, carrots, to more exotic items like dragonfruit, Chinese pears, seaweed, and other items. I like the selection of asian spices and sauces available here, and my preferred brand of rice and noodles is also stocked here.
I like the sushi section and the recently added dim-​sum section. It’s great how you can buy something and eat it right away. The prices here are reasonable, especially when they start discounting their items in the late afternoon to get it off their shelf (after all, sushi needs to be eaten fresh). They also have a great bakery section with an assortment of pastries and stuffed-​buns, and their cake selection is very impressive and flashy.
This place can get very busy during the weekends, but it is worth it coming here and finding everything in one location. It might be unfortunate for the Chinatown downtown, but this place is much closer for me, and their prices are very competitive as well.