Fresh World

This is an international grocery store that is almost as big as a typical American Grocery store. They have a large selection of fresh produce and seafood. You can find unusual fruits such a durian. They stock kimchi and a selection of banchan in the deli area. They also have aisles of processed and frozen foods and treats from all around the world. Besides being able to find your favorite foods from your native country, this is a great place for those unfamiliar with international cuisine to find new things to try or your favorite food from a vacation abroad.

A good variety overall but had one bad experience with buying roast pork at the little stand near the food court area. It went bad within a day. Like BAD. Might have been one time, but once is enough for me!

I was impressed with the options in every variety of Asian ingredients /​groceries. There was help available to show you where things are. Live fish available, actually looked a little sad. Deli served hot food. Prices were really good.

I LOVE Fresh World! Seriously this grocery store is wonderful! The best thing about it is the seafood selection, the fish is fresh and really affordable. They also sell fish heads and such so this is definitely the place to go if you’re making fish stocks. They also have a few cuts of lamb and goat but I was a bit disappointed in it’s being so small.
They have the best produce section in the area (that I’ve found so far) which is awesome, because realy who doesn’t love fresh produce!
A huge selection of snacks and sweets so I tend to allow my self one unhealthy treat to get for the week when I come in. They also have a great selection of sodas, one is a sangria flavoured soda and it’s freaking brilliant, I highly recommend it!
Honestly the only thing I don’t like is that I end up spending hours shopping for the week and people watching, which is obviously my problem not the stores.
Oh also the restaurant that’s is there is awesome, try the burrito platter it’s delicious and enough for two meals.

This was heaven. It was so big and selection was endless. I almost maxed out my card because I wanted everything from there.
They have different kinds «Latino, Asian, american* sections where it’s impossible to say no to many things. And their meat section price is unbeatable.

Fresh World is a little more crazy and crowded than H Mart but I think prices for meat and produce are generally better at here. Haven’t been to a Super H Mart in a while, but Fresh World has a better selection of non Korean Asian food than the H Mart in Annandale.

New to DC and have been looking for a one-​stop Asian store. We will return to this place many times, for as long as we live here!
This place was way out of our way but we seriously needed some Thai, Japanese, Filipino, and Korean ingredients and we found almost everything we needed and then some.
I have never seen a bigger vegetable section anywhere compared to here – an assortment of green leafy vegetables (like bok choi, chives, string beans (long beans), Chinese ones that I can’t even spell) are available, different length and size eggplants, tangerines, apples, bell peppers, limes, lemons, lotus root, ginger, chilies, etc. Different types of kimchee line the shelves, an amazing variety of seafood (small fish, large fish, shark, and shellfish) is available, an incredible selection of all kinds of beef, pork, and poultry (to include goose and duck) cuts line glass cases, chests, and shelves, topped with small dried fish and shrimp for Japanese and Thai cooking (or what have you)…all this before getting to the aisles of frozen and packaged food.
In the frozen food section there are all sorts of things like frozen coconut milk, shredded young coconut, takoyaki, squid balls, crab meat, edamame, lumpia (made with different types of rice paper), Japanese kamabuko, frozen fish; you get the idea.
The aisles are wide and labeled by ethnicity – i.e., Japanese, Korean, Latino – but also sorted by type of food – noodles, rice, sauce (condiments), etc. When ethnic food shopping is complete, cruise on over to all things American, plus a complete juice, milk, cheese, and cold cuts section. You really cannot go wrong in this store.
The only thing that I was unable to find was kimchee base but I’m sure I just missed it. I know it’s there. I’ll look next time, because there will be a next time!

They have pretty fresh vegetables and also meats at a good price!

I shopped here this afternoon and within 3 hours my credit card had been compromised and somebody charged $ 1,500 at local stores all over the Burke and Annandale area. This store was the only place I used my card today. I’ve filed a police report. Clearly, their system has been hacked or whatever because this was immediate and hyper-​local. DO NOT shop here unless you pay cash!

Japchae for $ 2.99 and kimbab for $ 3.99? Why thank you for a quick and cheap lunch and snack! Love this place!

You can dance the salsa towards the tomatoes and no one will care. Now grab some ripe but firm mexican mangoes (from mexico), a jalapeño, cilantro, lime, onions, and garlic and you can salsa all the way home. YES, YOU ARE SOOO WELCOME. Don’t you love this place like I do? All kinds of fish, all kinds of vegetables. You can get all kinds of salads and ceviches on. Go on, mix it up and get all sorts of crazy exotic.

Let me first say if you go here you have to have patience. I discovered this store a couple years ago was recommended by a friend. I was looking for some ingredients for a Trinidadian dish and finally found them at this market. Anyhow on to the review, the prices are awesome !! The produce and meats are amazingly priced. I felt like a kid in a candy store being I love to cook and experiment in the kitchen. This store has it all it seems tons of variety from Korean, Vietnamese, American, Latino and even some Indian food. The thing I don’t like about going here is how the store is already packed then they have people putting out stock with huge carts blocking the aisles. Also seems the majority of the people shopping there don’t know or care to say excuse me !! But it’s whatever to me I suck it up and deal with it for the prices it makes it all totally worth it that’s for sure.

Fresh World? or El Grande? Same place, different names… confusing! In any case, this place is your standard large Korean grocery store, with a huge selection of produce at much better prices than Giant, Safeway, or Shoppers. That alone should bring you in the door. They don’t have much when it comes their varieties of meat and cuts, but their fish and seafood selection really makes up for it. Sure, there are areas of the store that are not well lit and are slightly sketchy, but if you want to buy $ 80 worth of groceries for $ 30, this is your place.

Love this place! This is where you can purchase a wide variety of fresh produce, meat, seafood and various grocery items at really low price. I like the fact that you can find many fruits and vegetables popular in Asia such as jackfruit, rambutan, Thai eggplant, various types of basil and Chinese broccoli.
They have many kinds of fish here. You pick your fish and tell them how to clean/​cut it up at no extra charge.
I also like the X.O. Taste Express at the food court. They sell various Cantonese style barbecue meat. I bought a pound of Crispy Roasted Pork and half of a roasted duck and they are very delicious impulse purchase purchase.

I came here because rambutans were on sale. I ended up buying more than that. Chicken quarters and rib eye steaks were on sale so I stocked up on those. The produce were cheap and really fresh, better than any Giant or Shoppers I’ve been to. Seafood was fresh, but not the «live» seafood swimming in their tanks. Those things looked sketchy so I would avoid those. As another reviewer said, they looked like abandoned aquariums. Service could be better. The one and only cashier working seemed to have an attitude early in the morning. I’ll come back for the groceries though.

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I’m not coming back here! It’s disorganized, chaotic, and not a Korean market
I usually make my own Kimchi, but I needed some right now and just bought it. I’ve of course had store bought kimchi before and usually, it’s ok, this was ok too.
meat: I bought two packages. one was ok, the other had to be thrown away because of it’s odor. so just be aware. I of course give everything a thorough inspection before I put it in my cart. but it fooled me.
I also over paid for udon noodles and udon fish packs.
I was hoping to get all my grocery shopping done here but I couldn’t. I had to drive over to H mart to get the korean items that I couldn’t find over here.

Similar to H Mart and other Korean-​owned supermarkets, shopping here is like attending «bring everyone in your family to work day» at the United Nations. I like it. The produce is fresh, abundant, varied, and cheap and the only reason I come here. Lots of seafood but it’s hard to tell what is alive and what is dead in the tanks. That section is like visiting an aquarium that had been abandoned until the neighbors realized they could break in and sell everything that day. I’m not exactly taking notes, but it seems like prices on regular packaged items aren’t good with few exceptions, so I get my cans and boxes of food from TJ’s or Safeway, or Costco if I simply must have 64 oz all at once.

This is a pretty decent place to get produce and Asian ingredients. The store is clean and the shelves are well stocked and neat. There were two guys moving boxes around and they made sure I could get through with my cart. I went on a weekday mid-​morning to avoid the crowds. The place has a pretty large parking lot.
I was disappointed to see they sold almost every part of the chicken, but no chicken backs. They do have all sorts of organ meats, so if you like that type of thing or like to feed hearts to your dogs, you can get a good deal here on some fresh ones.
Produce looked good. Blueberries were only .99, where they have been almost $ 4 in the chain supermarkets. Really nice, fresh looking mushrooms too.
The selection and prices are not bad, but they are not as good as LA Mart, which is only 5 minutes away. I would go to LA Mart first, then if they didn’t have what I need, stop at Fresh World.

I love this place… its better then H mart — chinese great wall market, grand mart, etc. They have some pretty cheap meats and veggies. They have a pretty good selection of veggies.
This place can get really crowded and bunch of people just standing there blocking the already tiny aisles. I also saw a half dead pig here. highlight of my day.
They have more of Korean/​Japanese/​Mexican food than Chinese foods.

Ok… it this place is the only supermarket in the neighborhood to get my Asian foods… I’ll give them a 3 star. BUT… I went in looking for a few things and didn’t find a few things that I wanted. NOT OK!
Frozen meatballs? Not fresh? Not good!
Lots of live seafood though… even crawfish. So that’s cool!
Other than that… if I can find a better place to get my Asian foods… I’ll go elsewhere. The shopping kinda sucked too… too many bums there!