Sunny Supermarket

Went there last night to pick up some stuff. They have a good variety of S.E. Asian condiments and noodles — several brands of pancit canton (which are so easy and delicious to prepare at home). Fruit/​vegetable area has improved. They had fragrant guava imported from Mexico yesterday — and you can always find Thai basil here as well as FRESH PANDAN and galangal (if you get there early on a Saturday). This store also carries a lot of Korean products (at a reasonable price — certainly less than the Korean stores) and also a good selection of Taiwanese products.
The fish counter: improved somewhat — the staff who work there are very obliging and helpful.

This is a review on Tianjian crepes. On the weekends, at the front of the store farthest away from the produce section, a lady makes fresh Tianjian crepes. Tianjian crepes are made of buckwheat flour (I think), and then an egg is cracked onto it and spread out to form the second layer of the crêpe. It makes for a slightly spongey crêpe. This crêpe is then topped with cilantro, green onions, hoisin sauce, some kind of fermented bean sauce, hot sauce, and either a what resembles a giant crispy, thicker wonton wrapper, or a deep fried dough stick. This is then folded in half and served piping hot in a paper bag. For $ 3.50, it’s pretty awesome.
There are enough people buying this that there might be a small line, but it goes pretty quickly. There aren’t many places that serve this kind of crêpe (T&T and Xin Jiang being the other two I can think of). It’s a great breakfast/​lunch/​snack option. It’s also pretty filling.

It’s clean. Decent. Doesn’t smell. There are so many «independent» chinese grocery stores that I can’t tell the difference anymore. I wouldn’t come out of my way to shop here, but I can see it being a destination for those in the immediate area.
The thing is, I am used to large supermarket formats (my bad) so I just find the selection here, although it has the staples, just small.
By the way, they were selling $ 1 house slippers when I was there!!! Couldn’t resist and ended up buying a couple for house guests.

Located at the Finch-​Leslie Square, this supermarket is quite large and serves its surrounding area quite well. Most of the employees (and customers) speak Mandarin, so do take note of that if you ever come here.
I find the produce section much better than T&T’s (then again… any produce sections beat T&T’s nowadays). They carry the famous «Mrs. Chan» vegetables, which are locally grown and very fresh. The other items are relaitvely standard, though they have a separate meat/​seafood counter, I guess to minimize that «smell» that’s traditional with most Chinese supermarkets.
Overall it’s a good supermarket for those who live around the area, but for me it’s not a place I’d visit often (there’s another Sunny Supermarket within 10 minutes of my house anyway).

The supermarket is convenient to where I am so I come here at least once every three weeks or so.
The produce… it’s average. Freshness is inconsistent. It is definitely no TnT. But that’s fine. The price is what draws me here. I usually only purchase veggies at this place (sometimes a bag of calbee chips! yumm) & some chinese buns from next door.
What I usually don’t like here is… the parking. sigh… Try and avoid weekends. I usually come here after work and it seems to be fine. When you encounter a slow @$$ camry/​corolla/​mercedes driver just count to 100 and let it go…

Quite convenient location from my workplace in Markham. Produce looks good and fresh. Cooked food section prices are incredible (10 shrimp tempuras for $ 2!!) as well as Combo lunch dishes (TNT has raised their prices). Their sushi section was modest but I still had to make that extra trip to TNT because my son only wanted cucumber sushi. Their baked section was very extensive, however I found the chinese buns (hotdog, tuna, curry beef, etc) wrapped in too much bread. I will come back but I hope they expand their sushi section.

This is the closest Asian grocery store for us. It’s not TNT, but is relatively clean and smells fresh! Produce selection and quality are decent; a separate and adjoining room for meat and seafood, which is a rather smart way of maintaining room temperature and cleanliness.
I wouldn’t recommend you making this a destination for Asian grocery shopping. If in the area, this is worth a quick stop.

Crowded and a bit pushy but good selection of produce and Asian items. Primarily Chinese-​oriented with smaller selections of Japanese, Korean, and Southeast Asian good.
Not especially clean looking, but not as dirty as some.
Parking lot is oddly shaped and hard to manipulate around. People seem to ignore the back part so if you can find a space, try there.

It’s not TNT, but they have renovated nicely, turning it from dirty chinese grocery, to a clean make you want to buy environment.
The produce section is ample and cheap. I like coming here to get my Hot Chilli Oil which I was searching for, for years, and I found it here. The jar is a white lid, and the label is yellow and red. In Chinese it says Chiu Chow chilli oil. In English is says, Hot Chili Oil. No Brand name. I don’t know what I’m going to do one day when I cannot find this anymore!
It’s a great location, and since I don’t live up here any more, I just come by after dim sum with the parents. Don’t make a trip here, go to TNT or something — but if you’re in the area, it’s super convenient.

I would not suggest you to make a special trip to Sunny Supermarket. It is not bad if you are living in the area for Asian groceries but the selections is relatively limited and the fruits and veggies are not the freshness!
There are quite a good selections of Korean grocery to cater to the population in the area.
I would come by to pick up some last minute or urgent grocery items but not going to be my to go place for my Asian grocery!

Well that’s a way to make money, CHEAT YOUR CUSTOMERS!
CHANGE
ok so when you pay for your groceries with a $ 20 and it comes to $ 10.47, how much change do you expect to receive… calculators…
That’s right $ 9.53
Well at Sunny’s, math is not their forte… or they just play pretend it isn’t.
My cashier gave me $ 10.50 change and just ignored the $ 0.03. Do you know how many people go through this grocery store? They have about 10 active cashiers constantly working because there are that many people that shop at this supermarket.
I wouldn’t complain because I know accidents happen but this has happened so many times that I think it’s a store policy (steal the change from your customers, they won’t notice).
Now, I demand for the change and when the cashier looks at my blankly, I throw out my receipt in front of her and open my hand with the cash she gave me and count it in front of her.
I think this is a horrible way of getting extra money from your customers. I am slowly weaning myself off of this supermarket and trying to find another place to by my goods.

It used to be called «Big Land Farm” ’til those bastards changed it to ”Sunny Supermarket”. How gay. C’MON MAN. I joke. But when they changed the name of this supermarket at first I was in denial since I grew up with the old name so I kept calling it the old one, but later I forgot and gave in.
It’s the same as any other asian supermarket, but not as big as T&T but still provide a great variety of produce and what not and since it was refurbished a few months ago or few years, it’s a lot more SUNNY inside with a big room just for seafood so the whole place doesn’t smell!
— Hard to find parking
— Zombie cashiers but not zombie enough to sometimes give off a bitchy attitude.
(I hate it when they leave their hands out for your money, it’s like they’re hurrying you for your money. CALM THE FK DOWN GIRLS, jeezuz)
— Cheaper than Loblaws, No Frills and all that jazz
— Long line ups