The perfect pit stop to get goodies without traveling all the way to Chinatown. But something to really lat attention to are expiration dates. We've come by for some household staples and of course have to shop the delicious eats before heading home. We get our char siu and pork belly here when we're in the area. You can get it with rice or without, I usually just the protein and cook the rice at home because it's fresher. But can't beat the price and the flavors. read more

Ha, I didn't even know I was capable of writing a 1 sentence Yelp review until I re-ran across my now 11 year old review of Richwell Market. I'll just update it with a few current photos of the place and menu prices. As everyone else has said, it's a great and handy, albeit smallish, Chinese grocery market for us in the near north suburbs and many products can be had here without an annoying and long trip into either Chinatown. 3 sentences, yowsa, not counting this one! read more

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Always come here for the duck and barbeque pork and never fails with the flavors. Nice to pick up ready made food and go grocery shopping for those asian spices and ingredients. read more

The first time I went to this Richwell many years ago was to purchase a bag of rice (our favorite brand). I found the grocery store too jam-packed and small; I grabbed the bag of rice which was close to the entrance, and did not really spend time to shop in the store. However, when we were not going to Chinatown during the pandemic and the best choice for Chinese grocery became Richwell in Morton Grove, I shopped there again, and have been happily doing so for more than two years now. I found that most shoppers there are polite and patient (including myself) and would not get in your aisle if you are shopping there, as the aisles are narrow. Like the Chinese idiom says, "Even though a sparrow is small, it has all the vital organs". Although shelf space at this Richwell is very limited and they only have a small quantity of each item on the shelf, they do have a great variety of Asian and mainly Chinese merchandise. I usually get stuff like dried mushrooms, dried red beans, cane sugar blocks for making dessert sweet soups, and ingredients to make Chinese dishes. They also carry merchandise that we need for Chinese New Year's festivities, mooncakes for Mid-Autumn Festival, and bamboo leaf dumplings year-round (not just for Dragon Boat Festival). Prices are reasonable. There is also a live seafood and meat department, quality is good and staff are friendly. It is a big plus that there is the Jason BBQ's inside Richwell. That is the only place where you can buy freshly made BBQ food inside a food store, and the quality is good. It is very convenient that I just pick up a few cooked dishes for dinner when I shop for Chinese grocery there. Our favorites are Beef Stew, which is sold per box, Salt Baked Cage-Free Chicken, and BBQ Pork (Cha Shui). Their Beef Stew is very flavorful and tender. I always called earlier ahead to order to make sure that our favorites are not sold out. Their Roasted Duck, Roasted Pork, and Soya Chicken are good too. Mrs. Tam, the female owner, and Mr. Hui, the meat cutter, are both very friendly and accommodating. Although the parking lot is small, parking has not been a problem for me. There are only about 10 parking spaces in the small front lot, but shoppers usually do not stay too long, there was only 1 time that I had to wait for a few minutes. Moreover, a side street, Mody street, that is right by the market, provides more free street parking. All in all, it is a good food market to shop for Asian and Chinese grocery in the suburbs. read more

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Great chineese grocery and BBQ! Maybe not quite Chinatown quality, but better than having to fight traffic into downtown.

I love this market. It's not huge but it has everything you need for Chinese groceries and food. They also sell a variety of Chinese pastries and I always get the sponge cakes. They also sell rice noodles with shrimp at the checkout counter, which is delicious. I also always stop at Jason's Deli, which is a roasted meat vendor inside the market. I typically order their roast duck, but everything looks good including their roast pork and chicken. read more

Richwell Market - Roast duck, century egg and pork congee, sponge cakes, shrimp rice noodles - International Grocery Near Me - Morton Grove, Illinois

It's a little Asian grocery store competing with others in the area. More Chinese based. I love the bakery section for red or green bean round pastry with a salted egg in it. Yum. Jason chinese bbq is fantastic also upfront for ordering and then picking up after you are done grocery shopping. Parking tight in the little lot but plenty easy in the side streets. read more

I love how you can find a Chinese grocery store with a bbq stand in the suburbs. It is a little more expensive than the stores on Argyle or in Chinatown, but you'll save gas and time coming here if you live near Richwell! I did buy some bok choy from the grocery section. They were fresh! I also ordered 1/2 of a Princess Chicken. For $11, I turned that 1/2 chicken into 4 meals!! Very worth it :) It was also delicious! The chicken was juicy, flavorful, and so was the ginger and onion sauce. The only thing that scared me about the Princess chicken was that it looked a little bloody, but I put it in the microwave for a little. I will definitely come back and buy groceries and try some other bbq meats! read more

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Small Asian grocery store with live fish and some of the best bbq on the north side. A real mom and pop hole in the wall that will surprise you. read more

Needed to get some Chinese (Lunar) New Year groceries without having to go down South to either Chinatown or to Argyle Street for some stock items, vegetables, and prepared foods when visiting my Aunt this year to celebrate CNY.. Gung Xi Fat Choy - Year of the Rabbit Heard from an old friend that Richwell Oriental Market and BBQ sold whole chickens, duck, and roasted and BBQ Pork to celebrate and open the New Year properly that my 93 YO Aunt had remembered celebrating with her six (6) other siblings, one which was my Dad. So, I picked up a whole Bak Jamb Guy, 1 lb of Fong Yuk, 1 lb of Chai Sui and some Gee Kack Chu and other fresh vegetables, baby bok choy, Fu Gwau and a few other snacks that I found at the prepared food counter. Duck feet and Marinated chicken wings which ended up being some of my favorites. Service was great, fast and simple to order and even if you have broken Chinese or if your limited in speaking either Toi Shan or Gwaung Dong Whah. Everyone is at ease and you can always just point at the item that you want or use the menu as a last resort. The market space is an average size local grocer and it's conveniently located just across from my Aunts favorite Chinese resturant that she is a frequent guest, well at least once a week either by herself or with some of her Chinatown friends that have also moved up iNorth to Morton Grove, Skokie and Evanston, IL. Richwell Market is a typical local Chinese grocery markets that you would find either in NYC, LA, San Francisco, or in Toronto with live tank seafood (Crabs, Lobster and other large fish), seafood on ice like shrimp, scallops, whole fish and mussels. They also have a large meat counter that you'll find pork, beef and poultry and aisles and aisles of frozen foods and stock items both canned and packaged. From noodles, spices, sauces, snacks to candies and kitchen goods like butane side burners, rice cookers and woks .... If you need it, you should be able to find it here. Tip: The parking lot is very small but you can park either on Dempsey or on the side street. Highly recommend coming if you don't want to fight the traffic to get New Chinatown/Vietnamese town on Argyle St or head down South to Chicago's iconic Chinatown on Wentworth and Cermak Road. read more

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They have delicious duck and charsui. With the guy would wear gloves though. I make yummy duck noodle soup with greens. So delicious . read more

Richwell Market - Uggg Saturday line - International Grocery Near Me - Morton Grove, Illinois

Decided to tell everyone to be careful when you go there to do Asian grocery shopping! I wasn't going to write anything but decided to do something about this! I was looking around and saw this item and noticed that they changed the expiration date on it! I was so disappointed and just left! Sorry didn't get too many photos! read more

Richwell Market - Note the change on the expiration date! I was here on 9/1/2022! The original expiration date date is 9/3/2021! OMG!!! - International Grocery Near Me - Morton Grove, Illinois

A great little Chinese market in the suburbs. It's nice that we don't have to go all the way to Chinatown or Argyle (Vietnamese Town) to get a Roasted duck of bbq pork. The prices for the food in the front is also very reasonable. The market itself is small overall and yes parking is limited but there's parking on the side street right next to it and I've never had a problem not being able to park so that's not really a big deal and even though it's small the market is still usually busy whenever I go there. They have a variety of fresh vegetables, frozen items, cookware, etc in a small space. I would call it an express market/Chinese grocery store that has all of the essentials. read more

Richwell Market - Half duck $12-$13 - International Grocery Near Me - Morton Grove, Illinois

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What a gem. They have all the basics and don't miss out on the dessert freezer right when you walk in. The BBQ shop which you order and pay separately has all the heavenly chinese BBQ and some specials of the day which are absolutely amazing! Parking lot is tiny so you may end up with street parking. read more

Best bbq around. In my opinion it's better than what you can get in Chinatown or Asiatown. Prices are more moderate. Family owned.

Lots of traditional Cantonese and Mandarin canned, frozen, fresh meats, poultry, and fresh produce. Fresh baked items like pineapple buns, egg tarts, breads rotated in daily. Decent packaged sweets section such as seasonal mooncakes. Slightly higher prices than Argyle or Chinatown, but works out if you live nearby and don't want to spend gas to go into city. read more

Not really the best Chinese food market out there, but this is really your best choice in the Chicago suburbs if you're looking specifically for Chinese items and aren't looking to run into Chinatown. There are some drawbacks to this market -- the aisles are small, everything is jam packed, parking is very limited, selection is kind of limited, etc. Huge Korean markets like Assi, Joong Boo, and H-Mart provide a much larger selection of meats, vegetables, fruits, sauces, etc. not too far from here. On the other hand, if you're looking for Chinese bakery goods, they have a bit more selection here than other suburban Chinese grocery stores. If you're looking for Chinese BBQ, this is probably the only place in the suburbs that makes it fresh (without going far west like Naperville or Aurora). If you're looking for mooncakes, this is one of the places that will carry a larger selection of Hong Kong brands rather than Taiwanese or Chinese selections. If you are looking for prepared foods like rice noodle or sticky rice, this is one of the few places that also carries a full assortment of these items. Stuffed within the store is also a nice selection of teas, frozen foods, home goods, live seafood, fresh meats, and other items you'd expect from a Richwell Market. They may not be the best quality, but this will save you a trip into the city. Overall, it's really your only choice when searching for Chinese specialty goods, particularly of Hong Kong/Cantonese style without going into the city. But, objectively not that impressive of a market -- even if it's only measured against other small Chinese specialty stores, as the mainstream stores like Heinens, Garden Fresh, Jewel, Mariano's, Costco, etc. stock an increasingly better selection of Chinese goods. read more

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I like how this is the closest groceries to my house. I find them to be a bit cheaper than H-mart and have most of Asian products staples you can purchase. I also purchase ready made food like grilled chicken and dim sum. Well worth the visit. read more

Solid Chinese market in the suburbs that also has a great Chinese BBQ market for roast pork, roast duck, bbq pork, and other delicacies. Another spot on my weekly rotation! read more

The prices of Richwell Market goods are more expensive than Chicago Vietnamese town and Chinatown and the produce is not as fresh. But if you live in the suburbs and don't really want to drive too far, this is not a bad alternative for more specific Chinese grocery items that are not already carried by H Mart. Otherwise, H Mart has higher inventory turnover and volume of inventory so the prices and freshness are better there. What's worth the visit is the Mei Mei BBQ stall that's built within Richwell Market. The HK style BBQ is quite good. read more

Nice small Asian market on Dempster. Great asian food selection, a meat section, fresh vegetables, and fresh rice noodles, that I was looking for. reasonable prices. read more

Richwell Market was a nice surprise for me and am very (VERY) happy I found it. I know I may say that a lot, but ever since settling down in Melrose Park, I found it a pain to drive downtown for some Chinese ingredients. Yeah, Mitsuwa and H-Mart and some of the other Korean/Japanese markets nearby may have a few of the stuff I need, but Richwell is the first place that had everything I needed to have the Chinese shelf in my kitchen pantry fully stocked. All of the weird, packaged foods that I needed and sauces that I can't seem to find anywhere else were all there. That's the good. The not so good is that the place is entirely too small and nearly impossible to maneuver around in their already tiny carts. Because the place is on the smaller, cramped side, there's not a whole lot of produce to choose from, but you can still pick up some of the main vegetables expected at any Chinese market. Also, it's not really a place I would pick up my meat from unless I didn't have another option, but I was happy to see they carry some of the familiar frozen fish ball brands that I'm used to seeing in Texas. So thumbs up for having good fish balls. And even though this place won't probably win the most friendly staff award, this place gets 4 stars rather than 3 for the sole fact that I finally found a decent Chinese specialty food store outside of Chinatown. Also, they sell bbq duck right outside of the store. And who doesn't love duck? read more

Richwell Market - Combo lunch over rice $7 and very worth it - International Grocery Near Me - Morton Grove, Illinois

Be careful. Bait and switch. The shelf price said per pound for a type of bread. The cashier refused to honor the price. They protected each other and were very abusive and quickly changed the price without honoring it. read more

Probably some of the best Cantonese style bbq in the Chicagoland area. My wife and I got half a roast duck and half pound of charsiu. The charsiu especially is night and day compared to what we've had at Sun Wah. read more

Richwell Market - Charsiu and roast duck - International Grocery Near Me - Morton Grove, Illinois

Overall a clean and well stocked mainly chinese focused mini market in the burbs. The store has everything you may need for home style cooking. The frozen food section is quite extensive. The meat section is staffed by friendly butchers. read more

Have been here several times. The store is compact yet very cozy and full of critical items to ease my home sickness！The frozen dumplings， baozi & all other stuffs are of nice quality. 镁镁 is especially amazing, though it looks very low key. I am very into the chicken feet(way better than the ones in Cantonese restaurants in town such as MingHin... ) read more

Richwell Market - Chicken feet@MEIMEI BBQ - International Grocery Near Me - Morton Grove, Illinois

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Richwell Market has been around in the Morton Grove area for many years. They provide Chinese groceries as well as roasted duck, pork, baked goods, and buns. Many people come here for a quick stop to purchase a some ingredients for cooking, or to stop by to get some of their ready-to-go bbq items. It is convenient to come here rather than trek all the way into Chicago around the Argyle area. They have their own lot so parking is a breeze. +local Chinese grocery store read more

When you need Chinese groceries & roast meats and forgot to get in chinatown- this is the place to go. Produce is always high quality and fresh it is Less crowded the ranch 88 on Oakton and Mei Mei bbq is in the market Duck chicken and pork. Plate lunches for $7-8. Special order whole roast piglets $7.95/pound (around 30 lbs) Recommend-roast pork as good as both chinatowns and salt baked chicken- options for regular duck is pi pa ducks Char ahi was a little lean and dry read more

I found this place today totally by chance! Happened to notice a cute sign that said MEI MEI BBQ, glanced back and saw whole roasted ducks in the window...... My bbq detecter went off the needle! Made my gorilla stop on the way back, took $20 in and hoped for the best...... Can I just say, this was the best bbq pork, chicken and duck I've had since the original sun wah on argyle. The Mother daughter team behind the steam table were very friendly and appreciative. Food was clean and tasty, lunch special over rice with baby bok choy was $5.50. Also felt I could ask questions or get a sample of that delicious looking black bean beef stew, UNLIKE sun wah. (YOU know what I'm talkin' about....sun wah is the equivalent to seinfelds' soup nazi) My money gave me a half of duck which I tasted ;-p and froze for later use in gumbo or stock. Two large pork tenderloins and a boneless chicken over rice meal. Now.... for the market. Small and chock full 'o' goodies! Veggies fresh and affordable, fresh noodles, duck eggs, lobster and fish in clean bubbling water with NO ODOR! I have seen many an asian market and have studied products intently for years and found items I have never seen before. Really fun..... Lastly the cherry on top.... the teenaged gal at the register had no problem taking me to the fermented black beans.....They had me at bbq read more

You don't come here for service or comfort, you come here because you know exactly what you need and will be in-and-out in under 10 minutes. Every Chinese person I know in the northern burbs come here for the Chinese BBQ, where you order by the pound, and they butcher it for you. Every Chinese person I know also comes here for anything else they need (groceries, bakery items) when they're in a bind and/or are too lazy to drive to Chinatown. We come here to get fresh Asian vegetables if we don't feel like going to H Mart. One star off for the crappy, tight parking lot and seemingly dirty aisles. They need to mop and dust this place from floor to ceiling, wall to wall. Word to the wise: Don't piss off the lady behind the BBQ counter. She banned someone I know because this person criticized the meat they got! However, if you are an established customer (thanks mom and MIL), the lady will hook you up with the good cuts. read more

Be very, very careful to check the expiration dates on anything you buy at the Dempster Ave Richwell Market. I used to live in Pilsen and went to the Richwell Market on Canal all the time. Great store. Now I live closer to the Richwell market on Dempster. I've been there a few times. After my most recent visit I noticed something disturbing. As of August 2016, quite a bit of their stock is expired as per the dates on the packages. Many items are over 1 year past their expiration date. All of the vegan snacks near the checkout were expired. Every last one. Some from late 2015. Some of the soda in the back was expired from late 2015. Various varieties of candy were expired. I saw enough that I would be very reluctant to purchase any food items that do not have an expiration date on them. As as result I no longer shop there. Instead I recommend Assi Plaza at 8901 Milwaukee. read more

my cousin and i found the ingredient here for my pad see ew i couldn't find it at assi and h-mart ... and here were the ribbon noodles waiting to be cooked!!! i know they have it in argyle but this is soooo much closer to my house glad we stopped by on the way home to my house read more

Read the reviews and decided to give it a try on my way home from an appointment today. I was not disappointed. Ordered a pound of bbq pork ($8.50) and saw some of the other goodies they offered. You need to pay separately for the BBQ. For grocery items, you pay at the checkout. There is a wonderful selection of everything here. Prices are a little higher then some of the other Asian markets on Argyle St. or near Chinatown but I expected that. The pork was tender, juicy and better then expected. Staff is a bit abrupt and can be seen as rude. Being a big man, I am sure some of the comments made in Chinese between the staff were about me. Call it paranoia but when they look directly at you and start speaking, you know. Still, I will go again and spend a little more or bring cash to the grocery side as the checkout lady got a bit terse when I paid $8.00 on my charge card instead of cash. The photographs of the menu are a bit old as the prices increased at least $1 per item. read more

Located in a pocket of Asian businesses in Morton Grove, Richwell Market is a small Chinese grocery store with packed shelves, but there's still reasonable space between the aisles. Inside you'll find produce, meat and seafood, frozen goods (dumplings, buns), dry goods (tea, noodles, rice), a small selection of alcohol, condiments and sauces, snacks, some baked goods, cooking utensils, and Chinese herbs. While not as good a selection as the grocery stores by the Argyle El stop, this market is probably more convenient for those in the North Shore. Prepared food is available from Mei Mei BBQ inside the store. This market has its own (small) parking lot in addition to street parking. read more

The services are terrible. Some of the staffs at the meat counter could be unfriendly and have attitude. Sometimes the staffs at the cashier are not polite either, didn't even know they better say ''hi" or "thank you" to the customers. Many of the products do not display their origins. Many cooked food packages don't have proper labels, some of them don't have no expiration days. read more

Amazing food if you like Sunwah on Broadway I love everything bbq chicken/pork and bbq ribs

Excellent little Chinese and Southeast Asian grocery store. Odd name for a Chinese and Southeast Asian grocery though, don't you think? I would expect a store named "Richwell Market" would be a place I could get some Wonder Bread and baloney, but they don't have either, I'm pretty sure. Instead, they've got a nice selection of fresh produce for East and Southeast Asian cooking, this is a much better choice for Chinese eggplant or Bok Choy than Whole Foods or some other overpriced upscale supermarket, and a better selection of imported goods than the usual small neighborhood Asian grocery. They have some goods I haven't been able to find elsewhere in either Milwaukee or Chicago, outside of Chinatown or on Argyle, like salted duck yolks, Filipino or Vietnamese style instant noodle soups, frozen cuttlefish balls, Chinese hot pot sauce (four different brands), Chinese spam, it's actually really fun and interesting to shop here. Impressive selection of frozen and fresh fish, good choice in marinades and sauces, Chinese and Southeast Asian frozen foods, and Asian frying oils. They have Chinese style tea pots and serving ware (practical, everyday inexpensive, not the fancy stuff). They also sell Chinese barbeque here too. Obviously convenient for people living within a few miles of Morton Grove, it's also very close to the Edens, and surrounded by good Korean restaurants, so it's actually worth an afternoon jaunt for those of us who live a little farther away. read more

Good chinese supermarket, but a little too crowded. I understand it might be because they wanted to squeeze all the food into the narrow aisles, but they were jammed. Vegetables were fresh, particularly the Chinese eggplant, but they could have left them open instead of wrapping everything so tightly in plastic wrap. read more

Richwell is tiny, but it's a decent alternative to driving all the way to H-Mart, Argyle, or Chinatown. Parking can be troublesome on weekends since there are only ... 12 spots? Also be sure to check out Mei Mei BBQ, which is housed right next to the entrance to Richwell. They have great lunch specials for ~$6! read more

I love this Asian market! It's a great "little" Asian market, to pick up a few of those key ingredients, you can't find at your local grocery store. The people are very nice, the produce is good, and your select of grocery items and frozen items is solid. One of my favorite things, is visited the Asian BBQ shop in the front of the store, it's awesome! The only have take-out, but it's really good roasted and smoked meats of all types. I'm a big fan of their roasted Chinese duck, roasted pork, bbq pork, chicken wings and ribs. Honest, it's worth going out of your way to visit this place! Just remember, the bbq shop isn't open on Wednesdays. read more