Oriental Supermarket

Always friendly & one of my favorite places to shop. In love with their leek kimchee!

Good selection of Asian foods. I was looking for items from the Philippines and was surprised by the selection available.

Love this place, have been shopping here at the very 1^st day they opened. The owner, his wife & son all very nice to us, maybe they thought we are Korean too? But after letting them know, NO, we are not Korean, they are still very nice to us. No matter what were they doing at the moment, when they saw us standing in line waiting to check out, they always came over (and instructed us) to open a cashier lane for us which made people very jealous as we have special bond!
The vegetable always good and fresh, good variety & choice of frozen seafood, bagged or boxed raw or dry noodle package, fresh make Bimbab on site & ready to eat Jap Chae in container from Café Vie.
FYI: Tous Les Jours — bakery store few steps away from Oriental Supermarket — Also owned by this successful owner.
If you are a Korean/​Asian food (Café Vie), French Asian bakery (Tous Les Jours), Asian grocery (Oriental Supermarket) fanatics, then you can visit all these 3 stores in 1 trip. Highly recommend you come to experience it.

Very good selection of Pan-​Asian goods! I can’t wait to come back.
This trip, we stocked up on some Asian staples:
Noodles (udon, soba, ramen, etc)
Owl Milk Tea sachets (AWESOME!!! $ 5.50 for 12 sachets)
Mochi ice cream
Gyoza (frozen)
Curry
and I’m thrilled to see a great selection of Filipino jarred fruit — for when we need Filipino Fruit Salad.
We’ll be back at least every month!

Beware. The store’s customer service is very poor. I bought a defective item and when I took it back to exchange it, I was treated very badly, in fact they were nasty and hostile. The store did not want to exchange the item. It was like it was my fault that the item fell apart when I used it. They were actually angry with me that I expected them to exchange the item. I was told that I should not use their store again. This is the first time I have ever entered an on-​line rating. I did so because when told a number of my friends about the incident, I was told that it is not unusual for the store to treat its customers the way I was treated.

Really love this market. The variety of products is huge and you can get anything from Korean novelty items to Korean housewares. Despite our shopping here many years, you wish the owner or his family would smile more often or at least gives me basic customer service.

One of my many guilty pleasures, I love Asian markets. There’s nothing more exciting than grabbing a basket of ingredients that look interesting and seeing what you end up with. It seems fitting to make my 100^th review of (in my opinion) the best Asian market in the city.
By far my favorite market in all of the KC metro. It’s definitely not the largest (that would probably be 888. Also good, but another review) but they’re incredibly well stocked, clean, and carry a few things that I’ve not found anywhere else. If you’re a fan of shabu shabu, sukiyaki, donburi, or any hot pots, this is the only market I have found with pre sliced meats (beef roast, ribeye, pork belly) that are shaved thin enough to be cooked quickly without falling apart.
Their miso and kimchi sections are both large, with a huge selection. The same goes for their ramen, which looked to be expanding again the last time I went in. Almost everything from southeast Asia is represented here, though the main focus is Korean.
There’s also a great little housewares section with anything you could possibly need to cook, serve, or store your dishes.
I’m not ashamed to say, I find every reason to stop in here (if only for a milk tea and some sweets) as often as possible.

If I lived in the area, this would be a staple grocery stop. The deli section alone has key items to get through life:
— spicy marinated tiny crab
— seaweed salad
— spicy pickled all the things
— gimbap
— kimchi in family size jars aka me size jars
— fried fish cakes in bulk
The rest of the store houses staple carbs: rice, rice noodles, ramen, rice cakes.
The fresh herbs section has a great variety and the shiso leaves look perky not depressed and wilted.
Spices, dried chilies, and aisles of salted seasonings and furikake for days.
The meat aisle alone would bring me here on the regular: #shabushabu #bulgogi
The only whack part of the store is ‘Oriental.’

Other stuff are decent, but the Asian pear is super overpriced! $ 5 for one?! And the price tags on almost all the rice has been scraped off for months, but they have YET to replace them still… this is unbelievable and unacceptable. Bad service.

I like this supermarket. They have plenty choices among Korean, Japanese and Chinese. The price is higher than 888 international market but I like the Japanese snack there.
I hope they could add more cosmetics and commodity both from Korea and Japan.

This place is not the biggest Asian market in town but I believe it is one of the best. It’s clean, it is organized, it has a nice kitchen items section, and you can pickup some fresh made gimbap (korean sushi). Yes, this place is heavily aimed toward a Korean clientele with pre sliced meats (for bulgogi, kalbi, etc.), a huge selection of kim chi, and also some ready to eat prepared foods like huge steamed buns, rice cakes, japchae (a sweet potato starch noodle dish), and did I mention the gimbap? The kitchen items section has a good assortment of products with a lot of them actually made in Korea. Want that stone bowl for that bibimbap dish, sushi boat dishes, Pororo cups for the kids, they have it. Of course, they also have a very good Filipino section. Try the lumpia shanghai (these are egg rolls if you don’t know) in the freezer.
Bottomline, this is where you go to shop for asian goods for your kitchen and table and not run into many of those touristy people who to go to asian markets to gawk at live fish in a tank (you know who you are!).

A great Korean supermarket that I wasn’t expecting in KC.
The selection here is impressive! The grocery store is broken out into three sections (I think originally three storefronts combined now into one). The far right will be the meats, kimchi, and drinks. You’ll find a decent selection of Korean drinks here such as various teas, pear juices, sports drinks, etc… You’ll also find homemade/​fresh kimchi in this section. I wish they had some pre-​marinated meats, but I haven’t seen it around.
The mid section has more of the grocery type items, vegetables, dumplings, noodles, etc… I’ll admit, I’m not the best cook so I only pick up a few items from here. They do usually have some decent candy and instant noodles though.
The last section would be the kitchen goods section. I think the inventory could cater to the home customer as well as someone starting a restaurant. You can find your usual assortment of high end rice cookers, bowls, pots, kimchi tubs, etc…
Overall. one of my favorite Asian grocery stores in KC.

Mid-​sized Asian supermarket focusing on Korean food stuffs. They have Chinese and Vietnamese items also, such as your rice wrappers, noodles, bean curd, etc. They have a decent sized frozen food section. This is one of the cleaner and well organized Asian markets that I’ve been to. Definitely going to come back and check out the loyalty program card!

This is the best place to go to get all your ingredients to make sushi or gimbap and they have a great selection of kimchi. If you are craving asian comfort food, come here for the ingredients and try making it yourself at home. You can put a twist to all your favorites by adding whatever you like.

I stopped here to pick up some groceries this afternoon and I was pleasantly surprised at the size of this market. There is a free loyalty program called Bonus Card that gives 5% off purchases over $ 10. Once you earn $ 10 in bonuses, you get some sort of reward. I think I should have paid more attention, but rewards «for free» are great (different from paying for a membership to get 5% off like at International Marketplace in Vegas).
The store is divided into 3 sections. Upon entering on the right, there are mainly teas, refrigerated goods, desserts, and drinks. Some banchan was for sale including what looked like house-​made kimchi. I saw a lot of Japanese ingredients in the store, which was great considering it is primarily a Korean market. For the first time, I found sudachi juice!
In the middle section of the store was a huge number of aisles featuring noodles, sauces, oils, dry goods, spices, sauces, furikake and snacks. These were organized primarily by country. There was a Filipino section, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese. Also, there were several frozen cases in this area, including lots of seafood, dumplings, and sweets. This section also had fresh produce.
The final section to the left had kitchenware. There was a significant number of Asian-​style serveware, cookware, and kitchen tools. I think I had most of the tools. There were clay pots, bento boxes, and everything else you could imagine. The cashier was very friendly and seemed to recognize some regular customers. I was able to find mentaiko here which is awesome, along with thinly shredded strips of fried tofu in the frozen section. This is a great place to get Asian ingredients.

I shop here regularly for Vietnamese food staples. Occasionally they are out of some items and don’t restock them frequently (fresh basil, phở noodles of certain brands) but overall I am pleased with this store.
The quality of the produce is good and the store is clean. This is my favorite Asian market in KC. The store reward card, as others have mentioned, is a nice incentive for shopping there!

I love this place! okay so it’s not as big as 888 but it’s so much cleaner! Very organize, and well it has all my favorite Korean items
There had lots of mochi! from Japan and Korea, and the SWEETS! omg the Asian SWEETS! I miss my travels in Asia, and this is the place to go!
And it’s cheap, super cheap! (I think)
Even though I live in the Northland, I would drive all the way to metcalf just to shop there… Than again I usually have to drive to Lenexa to work anyways =p lol. What I’m saying is, it’s worth the trip out there.

Has everything I need. Very clean and well-​organized and the very nice staff is always happy to help me find anything. I come mostly for the Korean groceries (rice, kimchi, bulgogi meat, dumplings, etc.) but we’re pretty multicultural in our tastes and also buy our Thai curry paste and pad thai and Chinese ingredients here too.
The produce is also good – the skinny purple eggplants that are much tastier and never bitter, bok choy at ¹⁄₃ the price of the regular grocery store, sprouts and other specialties. Great tofu selection, mochi and prepared foods area.
Oh and I love the expanded housewares department. Bento boxes for my kids’ lunches, cool strainers and bowls and sushi rollers and lots of other ingenious and useful kitchen stuff that’s super cheap. Like Pryde’s at ¼ the price!

Korean, Japanese and Chinese food are accessible in Kansas City kitchens with a quick stop at the Oriental Supermarket. The Oriental Supermarket has grocery products from East Asia, including prepackaged food, snacks, beverages and a variety of ingredients. For the convenience of those who may not be fully literate in East Asian languages, many products have directions and ingredients printed in English.
The store is large, and each aisle is well organized with its stock. Near the back, one can find household items, cookware and dishware for the table or as gifts. If you do not yet own an electric rice cooker, even appliances can be found in these aisles!
The store is clean and has a good selection of frozen seafood (if perhaps your regular market does not carry squid or octopus) and fresh produce. I come here for many reasons, but the fact that it is the only place I know in KC where I can get fresh shiso leaves rates the Oriental Supermarket high on my list.
Whether you are looking for guest chopsticks, tea, soup, rice, curry, Pocky, a set of lacquer-​ware bowls, or just browsing through the aisles, the Oriental Supermarket is one of the more enjoyable shops you will make as you run errands today!

Went on a hunt for mochi a few years ago after my husband decided it was his favorite food. Buying them one at a time at the sushi restaurants was becoming expensive. I finally found mochi here. Great flavor selection. I get a little sad when they run out of my favorite brand and they won’t tell me when a new shipment will come in… they just tell me to try something else.
I’ve made a lot of trips to this store since then. I’ve found a lot of other food here as well — quail eggs for example. I stopped looking for these a long time ago. I had just given up. There they were — just when I least expected it.
Bought some zodiac themed teacups here for a few birthdays. They have a wonderful assortment of dishes and cookware. Their candy selection is very exciting.
I like to wander the aisles and look at everything.
The location is kinda hidden — it’s close to Jose Peppers, but not in the same section of shops. It’s in the big strip mall.