Thursday, August 20, 2009

List of asian supermarkets in Perth

As Singaporeans, we definitely need to get our food fix and not surprisingly, Coles, Woolworths and IGA do stock some asian food but not a lot. At the end of the day, we still need to go to asian supermarkets to get our things like durian cakes and you tiao. Yum yum. These supermarkets can be found all over Perth as there are a lot of Asians here. I've listed some of the supermarkets that we frequent and found according to whether it's north or south of the Swan river. Again, I'll update the list as I get their address.

North of the river

Emma's Seafood - 319 William St Northbridge WA 6003 Tel 08 9228 8899
Popular supermart with the local asians especially with the Singaporean and Malaysians because of the fresh yong tau foo that they stock. If I remember correctly, the owners were from Singapore so you can find lots of things from Singapore and Malaysia here.

Maruyu Japanese City Supermarket - Shop 2 33 Barrack St Perth WA 6000 Tel: 08 9202 1764
A small Japanese supermarket right smack in the CBD area. A little bit hard to find but once you see 33 Barrack St, just go into the building and it's at the end. Not many products but enough to satisfy my craving. Whenever I make tempura, I rather get the flour from here as the other shops do not stock tempura flour from Japan, instead it's one of the local brands in Aus and I don't like the taste of it. They sometimes sell expired items at a major discount and I'll always buy those as long as they did not expire too long ago.

South of the river

Market City Gourmet and Oriental Groceries - Market City, Canning Vale
A popular grocery shop run by an Indonesian family. They have some of the widest range of sauces from all over south east asia ranging from Vietnam to Indonesia which I've never seen most of the sauces before I stepped into the shop. Again it is one of those one stop shop that carries almost everything you will need to cook up a feast of Asian food.

Chan Bros
- Leach Highway, Myaree
Another popular asian grocery run by a Singaporean family. Will go there whenever I need to make bak kut teh as they sell a version that is peppery which I can't find any where else.

Willeton Seafood
- High Road, Riverton
A branch of Chan Bros which stocks the same things as the branch at Leach Highway.

Oriental Cash and Carry - Junction of Bannister Rd and Willeri Ave
This is the warehouse for Kongs supermarket so you can get virtually everything you may need here. What I like is that they have a policy of giving discount when you buy more which is good for me since I stock up on food now that I'm in the country.


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for taking the time to share this information. As a new comer I found it very useful.

Ric

Anonymous said...

Thanks for taking the time to share this information. As a new comer I found it very useful.

Ric