A-Dong Market & Deli

I have not been here and not found what I needed. Good selection, and advice when needed.

I agree with the reviews. This shop is around the corner from me. I spent 4.5 years in Japan, and there are certain sauces I need that the grocery stores (though they are getting better) don’t have. Usually this store has them. I’ve found that if they don’t carry what I am looking for that the owner will break out a catalog and help me find it and then order it for me. I am a fan of the shredded young coconut that they keep in their freezer section. You can use it like noodles in cold salads with mango, mint, and peanuts. Yum. Also, their selection of gluten free starches is impressive: tapioca flour, potato starch, rice flour… They make fresh tofu and agedofu (fried tofu). Not a cosmetic beauty, this store, but a great resource to have just down the street.

Looking for an Asain market closer to home. Not too much luck — but since I live in St Johns and possess a vehicle — it’s often easier to just go North to that vast wonderful wasteland… A-​Dong Market is pretty cool. Seems like they should have more — meat? stuff? I don’t think they even had meat — yet it’s a deli. Huh…
But it’s a nice med sized market and seems very clean and well kept — very little smell. Not much english spoken, but customers of varying kinds. They also have some cool plastic dishware that I dig. I bought 3 awesome soupy spoons like the ones in the restaurants! And they had bowls and such to match!
Not nearly as much produce as I would like to see. But got some awesome dried shrooms, a way too big a bag of bean sprouts, flavored tofu and some canned veggies for my new favorite asian inspired noodle soups.
The guy ahead of me was buying cans of curry en masse. I asked him about that. He said he and his wife love it — just add meat/​veggies. Am I the last person to know this? And why would they be in the asian store? Well — I get why. So I got massaman, green and red curry — why not? I made the most awesome dish with massaman, green curry sauce and coconut milk as the sauce — and just added potatoes, carrots, pork, tofu, and zuchini. I said it was awesome already — right?
Anyhow — I’ll go back, but the Pacific Market in NE has more to choose from — just more of everything! Meats, frozen dumplings, choices of canned goods. Get more stuff, A-​Dong!

Don’t let the outside, neighborhood, or inside scare you. They have great unique good food you can’t find in any other store around for cheap, cheap, cheap!

All this lil asian markets are stink. Lol but, being that im from hawaii I love these stores. Here is where I find some things to make some food I grew up eating.
theres another one further down the road that has more stuff as well.

There’s another slightly larger Asian market further East down 4^th Plain; it has cheaper products, but not nearly as many unique or hard-​to-​find ones. A Dong is perfect for such a small store; it has lots of really unique foods, and while even as a regular the Asian owners aren’t friendly at all, if you ask them for information their attitude changes and they enthusiastically help you find things.
My recommendations, if you don’t go to Asian markets often: get the aloe vera juice with lychees in it, which is very affordable at $ 1.29. Everyone I know who’s ever tried it thinks it’s delicious. Cracker Nuts are also very good and very cheap. Be careful of products with MSG and extra sulfites though; there are a lot of them in Asian food.

Very simple Asian market with very reasonable priced items. I get my Thai curry here and its only $ 1.09. Its about $ 5 to order on-​line. Nice people and easy to find stuff. Only neg is a minimal produce and freezer section.

I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and I guess I got kind of spoiled as far as possible food choices. When I moved to Vancouver it was tough to find the things I needed to make my favorite Vietnamese and Pacific Rim type dishes. I finally came across A-​dong market and was relieved to find that they have just about everything you would ever need to make your favorite Asian dishes. I was able to buy everything from the serving bowls to dried noodles, sauces and even produce. Now it’s the only place I shop for specialty foods. All of the produce I have bought there seems to last three times longer than what the major chains sell. Each time I stop in, I try to pick out something I have never tried before, and now I have a new favorite brand of fish sauce. MMmmm fishy. The prices are VERY reasonable and the people who work there are friendly and will answer any questions you have about anything in the store. If you want to make your own Phở, this is the place to go. Heh.