Hong Fa Market

The owners are this cute old Thai couple. Every time I come in mama always speaks to me in Thai since I come in to buy stuff like palm sugar, pickled radish, and kaffir lime leaves.
The husband usually sits in the corner while mama mans the cash register. They have an extensive amount of items for a small store. Anything from sticky rice to curry pastes, all herbs and spices, fresh veggies… anything you need to make your favorite dishes from your local Thai/​Vietnamese/​Lao restaurant.
The good thing about this store is that mama speaks very good English and can tell you what you’re missing if your making a particular dish.
The only downside is you have to find street parking which is no biggie since I usually moped it.

My favorite place to pick up all my Thai ingredients. They are so helpful here and the prices are cheaper than most places in Chinatown.

If you need essential Asian ingredients, this is the place to go. The store owners are very nice and always like to talk with customers. This quaint little store has been in business for years and brings the mom and pop out to this side of Chinatown.

This is my go-​to Asian Market. Luckily, I work in Chinatown so I can stop in as often as I want and buy ingredients for whatever I’m cooking that night. This is the place for lemongrass, galangal, kaffir lime, birds eye chilis, palm sugar and whatever other obscure SE Asian ingredient you need. She also carries croks (Thai mortar and pestle) and baskets for steaming sticky rice. But what I love most is that if I tell her what I’m preparing ingredients for, she helps me find exactly what I need and reminds me if I’ve forgotten something. Plus, she sells holy basil in 50 cent bunches so I don’t have to get a huge bunch that will just wilt and go to waste. Khop Chai Deux!

I really love this thai/​laos market! The owner is the only lady that sells shredded carrots and green papaya to make authentic dishes!!! Lots of different cans of curry as well as different curry brands!!!

Awesome little store – sometimes they have fresh treats like rice custard or saku sai moo. I’m bad with turning Thai words into English, forgive me. I like that they have fresh phở/​kuay tiao noodles in the fridge. One of the only places with affordable Thai green eggplants. And the lady that works there is so very nice! I don’t go in too often, but she always remembers me. She even speaks to me in Laotian/​Isaan and doesn’t force me to chop up my Thai like some other shop owners do since I’m obviously less comfortable with proper, formal Thai.
If you’re looking for SE Asian ingredients, I def recommend this place, along with Asian Grocery on S Beretania. Love them both.

Good little Thai/​Lao grocery store in Chinatown. Fulfilled my SE Asian needs at a reasonable price. I even got some Lao dessert here as well as a mortar and pestle. They have the various Thai dry goods as well as lots of various fresh produce including julienned green papaya for easy papaya salad making.