Java Indonesian Foodmart

I found what I need here from emping, teh, tempe and all kinds of bumbu. On Saturdays and Sundays, they carry snacks home made by Indonesians living in Atlanta area. Easier that making them myself. And the restaurant is right next door too!

I totally stumbled into this place by pure accident.
Being a visitor in the greater Atlanta area with my dad (who can eat nothing but Chinese food), it was imperative that the first stop (and many more stops after) is Chinatown (or whatever resembling Chinatown here inAtlanta). Well, through the help of my friend, Google, I set my GPS to guide me from the airport to the Chinatown mall, which is roughly 25 miles away according to my trip odometer in my rental car.
Anyway, we ate. We were full. And my sister wanted to go have some bubble tea. I pulled out my phone and consulted with Unilocal,which guided me to go to a nearby Quickly. I went there and lo and behold!!! There’s an Indonesian restaurant, «Tempo Doeloe» and right next door to it (well, attached to it more likely) is the Java Indonesian Foodmart.
You have to go through the restaurant to get to the foodmart and even though it’s small, it has a lot of Indonesian crap that I wasn’t able to find in the Houston area or in the Dallas area (come on, Texas! Up your game! Everything is supposed to be bigger in Texas, right?!). It has sweet soy sauce, Indonesian drinks (teh botol, teh kotak, etc), Indonesian instant noodles (Indomie, mi sedap), the highly sought Indonesian margarine, «Blue Band» (which is readily available at your local 99 ranch market. However it’ll run your approximately $ 30 for a 4.4 lb can at 99 ranch and it’ll only cost you $ 18 here), Indonesian snacks (Taro, regal, etc).
My sister was ecstatic to have found this place and she couldn’t stop saying that she wished we had something like this in Texas.
Unfortunately for me, I’m only here for a few days and I can’t quite get as many Indonesian crap as I’d like to. However, if I were living in the Greater Atlanta metro, I can see myself coming back at least once every couple weeks or so. But in the mean time, I’ll enjoy this place and I’m definitely going to try the Indonesian food next door at «Tempo Doeloe».

Love this place… Being from Australia, Indonesia are our neighbours so we have alot of their food influences… This is the only place I can find where they sell a box of Mi Goreng noodles! They also sell my fav ayam goreng sauce… for all your Indonesian cooking needs, this is the place to go!

This place is a godsend to anyone getting into (or already into) cooking Indonesian food. Most Asian markets around town are geared towards Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese, and Korean cooking. I found this place on a tip from a friendly Indonesian fellow who sensed my frustration at not being able to find daun salam leaves at the Buford Highway Farmer’s Market.
Java Indonesian Foodmart has said daun salam leaves, as well as pandanus leaves, candlenuts, Indonesian sweet soy sauce, dried shrimp paste along with other staples such as banana leaves, lime leaves, galangal, turmeric, etc., that are essential to Indonesian cooking but are more readily found elsewhere. They often have prepared foods in the back that are either made on site or close by.
The store is owned by a friendly Javanese family that were all too happy to help me find everything I need and give me pointers on their cuisine.