Shanghai Market

Category:	Grocery Store
Address:	1546 Como Ave, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
Phone:	+1 651-646-6181
Rating:	3.9
Working:	9:30AM–8PM 9:30AM–8PM 9:30AM–8PM 9:30AM–8PM 9:30AM–8PM 9:30AM–8PM 9:30AM–6PM

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Reviews 23

Jonathan Lin

Quality Asian Supermarkets are tough to find in the Twin Cities. There isnt one supermarket that can satisfy all my grocery needs. I always have to go to multiple supermarkets to get what I need. With that said, Shanghai Market is a decent place. I came across this supermarket unexpectedly. I was planning on going with my friend at the time to Shanghai Wholesale, but accidentally selected this one instead. They are both somewhat close to each other, but different indeed. Shanghai Market is a very small, but well packed market. They have a decent selection of vegetables like bok choy, napa, enoki, mushrooms, and others. Theres some frozen meats as well, but Im a flexitarian, meaning is A semi-vegetarian where i will eat occasional inclusion of meat products. I only eat meat when I go out to eat, which is a couple times a week. The vegetables are pretty fresh for the most part. I mainly come here to buy soft tofu for my soondooboo. The soft tofu here is a lot cheaper than most other Asian supermarket competitors in the area. Its only $1 at Shanghai Market, compared to $1.59 at United Noodles. The only downside is sometimes they dont have a lot in stock. I buy things in bulk, so Id hate to make the drive here and find out they only have a couple left. The rice here is also a lot cheaper than United (almost $10 difference for the 40/50 pound bag of rice). Something to note when shopping here is check the expiration of those canned, packaged products!! There are a lot of expired stuff here that they continue to sell. You can tell, they have overstock of products that dont sell well. They just keep it on the shelf. This mostly applies to their canned products, but double check everything in case! If you do that, then this place is a decent place to get your groceries. But as I mentioned earlier, I only come here to buy the tofu. Lastly, this place does take credit card, but there is a minimum, which I believe is around $15. This place also gives discounts if you pay in cash, so make note of that!

Andrea Schneider

Love this store! Has tons of the food things I got to taste in Taiwan, and which I was craving before finding the Shanghai Market. My favorites: peanut rice milk (better than any chocolate milk), peanut soup and congees, the 1000 layer cookies, Thai milk teas, hot pot mixtures and the stuff to put in, like those cute cutouts with the pink flowers, but also tons of great tofu ingredients, really good soy sauce and oyster sauce, and pork floss or meat floss, and pot sticker dumplings, and I,m getting hungry as Im writing....

Yen-Yi Ho

I would have give zero if I could. The cashier is a very MEAN women. If you bought something, even dry good such cookies ...etc. They wont let you return it the next day even its unopened with receipt. The guy inside has serious racial discrimination against people from other ethnic background. The staff here is rude, unkind, and prejudice. Do not shop here if you can.

Chao Gao

Everything is so expensive,rather go to shanghai wholesale instead.这里的东西价格超贵，从没看到过价格那么贵的中国超市，以后再也不会来这了，宁愿去上海批发。

Ana Lucia Piedrahita Fernandez

Algunos productos no tienen nombre en inglés así que no es muy fácil saber qué son todos los productos

Alaina Rose

The people who work here always have a smile for my 3 year old, whether we are strolling by or stopping for a bottle of water. In the future I look forward to checking out the products more thoroughly.

Carolyn Ritter

A fantastic variety of traditional Asian ingredients. Vegetables looked super fresh, prices are very reasonable. There is a $20 minimum for credit card purchases, so bring cash for small trips!

Ronald Tu

Been my grocery store for 20 years. Not big but I Can find everything I need. Price is not always the lowest, but it is very convenient. Owner is always willing to provide help.

SchaOn Blodgett

Needed something last minute. I dont carry cash, and they require a $20 minimum for credit card charges... so, left without getting what I needed last minute.

Deng Fodan

Good Asian grocery store. Have some unique ingredients and various frozen food options. Also it is a good place to search for hot pot food and soup base.

preethi srinivasan

Products labelled in Chinese.so if u want a specific product,unless you know how it looks r if u know Chinese,u r lost in this place

Wei Chen

The fresh oriental vegetables are the best in the twin cities. And the prices of goods are very reasonable.

James Grommersch

Great selection of foods and other items. Very helpful staff and good prices

Andre Batchelder

A very nice grocery store like any store ripoff prices but otherwise

Haoyu Liu

中国食品很丰富

Zhen Zhang

Make sure check the expiration date on the can food.