I was on the hunt for moong dal, and a friend recommended this store. I bought 4 lbs of moong dal…read morefor $6.99, such a good price! Don't go to Amazon and buy here instead. I also bought a few lychees, which were plump and juicy, some mango ice cream, mango Lassi, paneer, and their fresh samosas. Great store to buy your Indian food staples! Also, where else can you buy $0.99 chai?! Nowhere! Come support your local shops! Friendly service, too. The only downside is that not every item had a price by it. You can ask the shop attendant and they will let you know.

This is a very bizarre market. Everything is kind of slung around and disorganized, every time you…read morego there are different brands and it's fairly small. It isn't a grocery store but more like a corner store to get your random spices you need. Not a whole lot of selection of veggies. At first I thought it was just another run of the mill Indo-Pak halal desi market. While they do have your typical Indian and Arab foods, they actually have a nice selection of East European, and Balkan items as well. Smoked goat and veal from Bosnia, Bulgarian and Russian sodas, frozen byrek from Albania, Macedonian and Turkish pickles/dips. That alone makes it worth a stop to see some staple foods from a cuisine that is underrepresented in the south. They also sell incense, perfumes, shisha tobacco, and Hindu and Islamic paraphernalia at a good price. You can't find enough here to fill your fridge, but there is enough the odd and obscure little treasures to find that make it worth a stop.

I was looking for a particular item and found it there. It's a small but well stocked specialty…read morestore that should be included on everyone's list of places to check out. And as usual if you don't look like you know what you're looking for it's ok. Someone will be more than happy to help. I recommend this store and will be returning.

When you enter Pinoy Pantry you are greeted by a young lady by the name of Shannice whose smile…read moremakes you feel right at home and offers to assist you to find whatever type of Asian food that you may crave. The atmosphere there is like what I felt when I was in the Philippines. I am very familiar with Filipino food and culture, in fact, I teach a martial art called Pekiti Tirsia Kali which is from Negros Occidental, as well as, Baztekhan which is from the Bicol province where the food is spicy just the way us Texans like it !!! INSTAGRAM: JKD Sifu Mike Goldberg

Good goat meat, she comes and goes as she pleases but most times she is there. Some times I call…read moreahead of time if it is early in the morning. They have Nigerian original products ooooo from most tribes and good fish selection. Just too cramped tho. You can send money to Nigeria.

From the owner: Soboma African Food Store offers a wide variety of fresh meat, seafood, grocery produce and…read morepackaged food items. The store also features authentic African personal care and beauty products.

I tried this place in an attempt to not drive 45 mins. for betel leaves. The store is small but…read morevery specific. I immediately located some desired produce along with some needed pantry staples. Just when I "gave up the fight" for betel leaves, the young lady who was checking my groceries asked if I found everything. My old age also has me engaging in honest conversation these days, so I shared my desire but disappointment about betel leaves. She immediately said they DO have betel leaves, shared my desired with her co-worker, he asked me about how many leaves I wanted, emerged with them a short time later. After some research, betel leaves are sometimes preserved in favorable conditions (in an unseen area), so I was super excited about this store & service! Oh, and BTW, Siri's directions were absolutely wrong...

fun store to check out. there's a good bit of incense and assorted goods and food. they also had…read moresome soursop drinks.

They have eveything you could ask for and the prices are awesome the produce is always fresh…read more The only thing I could complain is a very young and thin male cashier always in a bad mood but the rest of the employees are super nice

#24 of the year yaaz queen…read more This location has plenty of parking just keep an eye out on the cars turning in from the service road, they don't slow down. Similar to the other locations I will post that review below. I love this chain of super markets. Every time I step inside It takes me back to growing up in Mexico and hearing and smelling the nostalgic of my childhood. Probably my favorite thing is how they decorate everything inside. The fish department has a mural of the ocean with some fish. The juice bar has like a tiki bar vibe with the straw roof. The produce section has those fake trees and underneath it the fruit so it looks like it fell off the tree. The smell of freshly baked bread coming from the bakery is wonderful. The sound of the tortilla machine chirping away takes me back to when me and abuelita would go early in the morning to get fresh tortillas. Second I love the food court area, sometimes me and my parents will go on the weekends to get food there and we will sit down in those picnic tables and eat. Sometimes the little and simplest of things in life are the best. Pro tip, if you are making tamales or gorditas and need the corn dough to make them. The store sells that dough where they make the tortillas in house. Just tell them you wanna buy x pounds and they will ring you up. It is a bit more expensive compare to what they have in the freezer section but quality and freshness is way superior. Third is the butcher shop, you don't get this kind of service or variety from the big retail supermarkets. My parents use to go to fiesta or minyards when they were around but now they are closing more and more stores making them hard to come by. The closest Fiesta to us is in Arlington and there are more El ranchos and Michoacanas around so this is more convenient for us. The butcher shop has many different cuts of meats and many cuts are pre-marinated so it takes all the guess work out. There are certain meats that have to be cut but the staff is pretty happy to cut them to your specific liking. Sometimes I go in there and say "hey I am making xyz and I don't know that the cut of meat is, could you help me" and 99% of the time they know what I am talking about. If its a popular dish or if you can describe the type of animal meat it uses they will probably know. Fourth, I love coming here because I know I will find those Hispanic brands of food that cannot be found anywhere else. I love going to W.M but sometimes they don't have the Hispanic brands I need or sometimes they do have it but they only have the small cans and I need to Texas size cans lol. Another reason I love it here for the spice wall. Just like Bucees has the wall of Jerky, every el rancho has a spice wall (not a spice rack but a whole wall of spices). A lot of them have the spice printed in both English and Spanish, i always learn something new when I read the lables. They come in whole or grinded to a fine powder. Six reason I love this place (well mostly my parents love it), the produce. We are able to find some ethnic produce here fresher and sometimes cheaper compare to W.M  or targee. When its Christmas time this is the first place I go to get the ingredients to make Mexican punch. The lines on the weekends can be pretty long so be prepared for that. Lines on weekdays are not too bad. I have gotten my mom a birthday cake from here in the past and it was delicious. She loved how it was decorated and the lady at the counter was friendly when I asked for it to be double boxed.

My husband and I are always looking for new ethnic food stores and we got lucky when we found the…read moreInternational Food Land store in Arlington. It's an Arab grocery store that contains a variety of fresh Middle Eastern, Greek, Turkish and Eastern European products all squeezed into a very small space along with a restaurant! They have a bakery and to go deli items with Tabbouleh, Hummus, Stuffed Grape Leaves, and Baba Ghanouj, as well as specialties such as Chicken Shawarma, Kabob, Kibbeh and Falafel.I really loved the olive bar with its very reasonable prices. Of course there's a Halal meat market with goat, lamb and chicken butchered in convenient pieces for cooking and packaged ready to go. They even had bulk feta cheese here. The small seating area for the restaurant is cordoned off and your daily special or menu item is cooked fresh ready to go or eaten there. We bought olives and spinach pies from the bakery. The cross section of Indian and Middle Eastern food items was pretty unusual and definitely a good find. I was amazed by how much they were able to showcase in this place. It was so clean and well organized with a large inventory. International Food Land Store has very courteous people in every department and we will definitely go back.

Great variety of seasonings priced far lower than a conventional US grocery store. Produce is…read moredecent, and lots of it is less expensive. Interesting selection of bread products. The only issue- much of the Frozen produce and several aisles had no prices. I feel like I'm bothering somebody to ask them to price things- they only do one at a time but it's an entire wall of frozen vegetables that have no prices. You have to bring things to the front to get them scanned. And even when they tell you what the price is in the aisle after they've checked with the front, the cost changes when you go to the cash register. It's not that big a deal but it's something they could improve on. Very nice people and good customer service.