Seng Hong Oriental Market

This Khmer Market has been opened since the early 90’S. I dare say even before then. At that time this street was full of Khmer Viet business. To my surprise after 20 years I came back to check this neighborhood out. All the other shops have closed down, but Seng Hong is still there.
This store is great for those that love to browse kitchen wares. The selection of Noodles is HUGE. The veggies are good and nicely priced. If you are in the area, stop by. Get 5 ingredients and make a surprise diner.

Ok, so I have a old Volvo with ~250,000 mile on it. It has this thing where it just dies and if you wait 1 or 2 minutes with the ignition off it starts right back up. So today I was driving up Broad Street north of the Boulevard, south of the SEPTA regional rail overpass. Inga (my wife named her; since College I have named all my cars posie for Piece of S***IE) started to buck…
Anyway Inga takes a herring break at Broad and just south of Rockland, so using momentum I made a right onto Rockland heading east. I slid into a spot and waited a few moments and then turned the key. Inga says ya, shure, and we are off turning left to go north on Old York Rd.
On the northwest corner of Old York and Rockland there is a place with Sanscripty Thai ish script and English translation like ciigroceryanddeli just like that no spaces — they did not speak much English and they did not seem to have much I wanted to buy, but as I exited I saw across the street Seng Hong. What the heck I thought in for (insert your favorite phrase here — mad libs comes to Unilocal — ya saw it here first, folks).
Seng Hong is like the places that I would explore in NYC Chinatown as a kid in the 60’s — the parents would L-​I-​N-​G-​E-​R over lunch or dinner and 8 YO me would get excused and explore. Times sure have changed! One is curious how ‘modern’ kids and young adults function sans smart phone or even develop street smarts, but I digress…
My MIL wanted gold haut 70’s gold colored silverware for Xmas and I thought what the heck. They do have loads of oriental cooking stuff and various tschotskes as well as many different kinds of foods most unknown to me but not gold silverware.
This is a place that folks who know about Oriental foods will likely enjoy exploring, and if you live in the Jenkintown — Cheltenham area like me like me it’s closer then Chinatown, and less corporate then the admittedly excellent H Mart at Cheltenham and 611 at the Philly line.
They have the requisite Hispanic guy assisting the middle aged woman who seems to run the place.
If you want to check out a cool place and choose from Viet Namese, Chinese, and Thai stuff (to my untrained eye) this is a very cool place.
My (as of this writing) 5 YO niece and her 3 YO brother love eating with chop sticks, but their dad is not a big Oriental food fan, so I bought a set of 6 plastic chop sticks, a pinkish red plastic plate with a pretty rose on it the niece, a blue plastic plate with a strong masculine design on it for the nephew, and a medium size serving plate with Chinese characters on it (eat at Liu’s?) and 2 packages of ichi ban ramen for $ 13.26. The lady even let me use my MAC despite the bill being under 15 bucks…
Here is a photo from Google Street View — it looked safe enough but late at night I don’t know… goo​.gl/​m​a​p​s​/​8Wfnv