How could you be a fan of a supermarket? When your family eats as much rice as mine does, and you…read morecan by cheap rice in bulk (as well as supplies for Japanese food), then you would also be a fan. In comparison to other Korean supermarkets, this one is pretty huge. Generally, if they don't have it, you don't need it. Btw, if you sign up for a red card, you amass points which you can use for future discounts.

It's so strange how one IGA can vary so much from another. This IGA has some of the most reasonable…read moreprices for an IGA. Things were always reduced by quite a margin here, and there are always markdowns on the produce.

If you need anything Sri Lankan - this is the place to come to - small but everything you need -…read moresome hot rolls and other food available on weekends but get it early .... and pick up some elephant brand ginger beer in the bottles from the fridge - true ginger flavour !

Ever felt the desire to cook bak kut teh from scratch? Need to find some sort of root or spice for…read moreChinese cooking? This is our go to shop for all things Chinese in Hornsby. While sometimes I require help with the translations ( I understand 0% Chinese), I have not been steered wrong yet. Have always found this place to be good value.

Prices are reasonable but today bought some beans but not the price I thought it was, they said for…read moreanother vegetable bit all there were was green beans. Put the right Prices or have it in English not Chinese! I'm Chinese but can't read Chinese. Their customer service is appalling! I'd rather shop elsewhere. Learn to speak English if you work at a place not only Chinese people shop at!

I was only having a discussion with someone a week ago about Persian supermarkets. His argument was…read morethat the Persians make the best kebabs, to which I said, "well get thee to Joe's Pizza and Arax in Lindfield (review http://frid.co/nhjor1 )". To this he retorted that he would not be able to survive without regular visits to his local Persian supermarket... And so less than a week later I walk by a brand new addition to the Hornsby community. It was pretty small, and some of the items I think I might be able to get at other shops, but admittedly I am no expert on this type of food. That said, when I saw a bottle of sour cherry jam, I had to have it. I love a good sour cherry. Especially if it is in a German strudel... or ... as it would seem... on toast with a bit of peanut butter... :-) I know right... I am all class. :-) In any case, if this is something you are seeking out, and you are in the area, this is going to be one of your only options. They have only been open for 3 weeks so far, so are still filling out their stock base, but it is always great to be able to find different types of foods (at least I think so).

Years after moving home from England, I'm still staggered at the price of fresh produce. I know…read morewe're an island in the middle of nowhere, but come ON! This is why you need a good greengrocers. And Freshco is very well stocked (including Sonoma bread!). It's by no means the cheapest - keep an eye on the specials out the front for a good deal - but the staff are lovely and it's the place you can confidently go for all your healthy produce. That's if Thomas Dux doesn't lure you upstairs.

While I am often a bit suss of the value to be found inside the store, you can often find a decent…read morebargain just out the front. I normally will check the prices before heading to Woolies or Coles. Makes for better peace of mind when shopping, as there is nothing worse than buying something and then finding it cheaper only minutes afterwards...

The feeling I get, walking into a brand new Aldi supermarket, is like giving the Gold Coast Titans…read morea duffel bag of white before game day... and then testing their pulse. Forget Bunnings. I think everyone on the planet gets the Bunnings Buzz when the smell of sawn timber hits the nostrils. That subtle waft of brand new paint on products, mixed with shrink-wrapped brushware and... dare I say it, nuts and bolts... Aww yeah. Well a brand new soopy easily outscores the hardware high. Pristine floors that squeak as un-bastardised trolley wheels roll effortlessly across them. *snooooorrrrrttt* Centimetre perfect product placement. You feel like a criminal removing an item; and as the OCD kicks into overdrive you find yourself hastily rearranging products to ensure that the next customer is greeted with a flawless display. Let's face it Aldi is *the* unisex supermarket. As a bloke I feel right at home here. In Woolies and Coles, it's "housewifey", and that era is dead son. This is a brand spanking new Aldi, and it is a biggun. Choose your superlative. Gargantuan. Colossal. Behemoth. It feels freakin' monster. It positively dwarfs the Aldi at Hornsby, but maybe that's because this new supermarket is almost completely empty. The Aldi sits on the site of the old, old Pizza Hut, that we used to come to as kids. (that Pizza Hut had the original hut-shaped roof that the logo is based upon; was eat-in with the huge red-and-white tablecloths and had the traditional 24" family pizzas. Oh man I can still taste it... and shrinkies??? OH WOW!) Look. Aldi gets me. Everything is well laid out, the aisles are like twice as wide as the competitors. I could drive a boat down them and still have room for drunk mates to dangle their legs over the sides. Everything is in arms reach, and quite frankly who cares about brands because I look at everything and it is all jumping out at me (yes, even the $3 grout that ISN'T Selleys). Cola for 69c? reminds me of the days we used to shop "No Name" for cans of cola, which let's face it, were always better than Coke. That flat, caramel 'n' clove cola is tonnes better than the branded alternatives. Always was, but for some reason we all love a brain rinse with some soapy suds. I dearly wanted to give this a 5, but being a new incarnation there is a few kinks... The service was a bit slower than what I was expecting, and the store was largely unmanned (only 2-3 staff on, one at checkout, one restocking, one doing trolleys). It's a shame this Aldi isn't in the Parkway Plaza shopping centre, because I think it would get double the foot traffic. But for those new to Aldi's the open space of this stand-alone store may win more converts. It really is exceptional, I'm still giddy. Are you green with trolleys? This bad boy uses the coin-in-to-get-a-trolley technology. Put your buck in, pull the key out and your $1 is locked away in your trolley whilst you shop. When you return your trolley put the key (from the trolley in front of yours) into the front of your trolley's keyhole to push the $1 clear. Hey presto, that's how they keep the trolleys in the bays instead of roaming the countryside.

Big store, holds almost everything they offer I suspect. Great selection from the bins in the…read morecentre. Own parking underneath.

I love this place. It's got a myriad of Asian food stuffs - most of which I don't have the…read morefoggiest of what they are. But if I learnt to cook well, went to a Chinese/Korean/Thai/Japanese cooking class I bet I'd find all the ingredients I need here. I walked down the stairs and felt like I was in a foreign land - blonde and blue eyes I stood out like a sore thumb. A bit of a stickler for looking at ingredients on packaging I need to befriend someone who reads Chinese/Japanese/Cantonese/Mandarine so that I know what I'm buying exactly. Perhaps I should start learning to cook first! They stock everything from fresh fruit and vegetables with a range of Chinese vegetables, noodles, sauces, condiments, frozen dim sum, snack foods, iced teas and drinks.

When I die, sprinkle my ashes across some fried bread and leave it in Asian City for someone to buy…read moreand devour. This is how much I love this place. Okay, so, thing the first: CHEAP-ASS FRUIT & VEG. We're talking $1.99kg tomatoes, $2.50kg cucumbers, $1.20 bunches of coriander, $1.50 bundles of delicious garlic shoots that I've only just learned how to cook, and every kind of almost-costs-more-not-to-buy-them bok choys, choy sums, and about a billion other variant of the same. I buy all my fresh schtuff here now, way cheaper than Coles & Woolies and really good quality. Freezers, entire freezers, of dumplings! Welcome to the promised land, son. Pre-packed, wafer-thin beef and pork rolls to drop into your instant ramen noodles, millions of soy and oyster sauces, billions of chilli oils, gummis, Poki, bamboo shoots, it's happy hour at the freaking flavour factory and you've got the golden ticket. Of course, at least half of this place is things that I don't recognise and will probably never try (read: weird, so weird) but I try one new thing every time I come here. Doesn't always pay off, but 1 in 3 times it does. Like the chilli oil with cured pork chunks that's now my new favourite condiment, holler. Just don't buy the garlic that's imported from China - it's bleached, and the girl at Cornersmith Picklery told me it goes bright blue when pickled, naaaasty.

This one has been here for years, probably almost 30 years now. It survived the Westfield being…read morebuilt and the new train station and apartments around it. Kind of amazing it hammer l hasn't changed. Good prices and decent range of Asian stuff.