Hiep Thai Food Store — Attraction in Garland

First of all, this is a Vietnamese grocery store. I've been shopping with them when they were in a smaller store located on the southwest corner of Jupiter & Walnut next door to Ba Le many years ago. Hiep Thai is someone's name and it is owned and operated by a Vietnamese family. They're not from Thailand and would be offended if perceived that way. Please have some respect for them, people. For a small store compare to SF Supermarket in Saigon Mall, they have a fairly good selection and the prices on some of the items I buy are a little cheaper than other Viet supermarkets. I like the fact that they have seasonal fruits like mango, rambutan, longan, and lychee in bulk pack or case. The store has a stronger fishy smell than other Viet supermarkets though. Two things that they can improve on is to keep stock on individual french breads and not to repack the vegetables and restuff the wilted ones in the middle of the bag instead of throwing them away. Everytime I shop there, I've seen customers digging through the whole pile, both bulk and packaged fruit and vegetable, to pick the fresh ones. If everybody does that, which happened more than not, then products don't get rotated. It's a big dilemma for the retailer. They can't ban picky customers and create a public backlash or risk losing good customers because they constantly get...

Best selection of fruits and vegetables in dallas, especially hard to find and exotics. Fresh squeezed daily orange juice is excellent, about the same price as Central Market but the juice is so sweet, more similar to what I used to get directly from the orange groves in Florida. The only store in Dallas that I've found sapote, a South American fruit that tastes like creme brulle, and passion fruit at half or less other stores.

The seafood selection is very fresh, great prices, huge selection. You can find every variety of seafood, and the clams are kept in tanks where the water rises and falls to mimick natural tides. This allows the clams to not only thrive but rids the clams of all sand and grit. Much better than clams kept on ice in other stores. You not only taste the difference, you can see the difference when you cook the clams. The price is also less than most stores.

The meat market cuts meat daily and offers a wide selection. A great place for hard to find cuts, like beef shin when I'm making Hungarian goulash. A beef tenderloin roast, chateaubrian, or filet mignon is less than half the price of most other grocery store, and the quality has always been just as good. If you are buying the full tenderloin you will pay half the price of other stores and its already been trimmed of...

Went to this store 2 days after my Thai wife arrived to the USA and we were looking to stock our kitchen for her cooking needs. Disappointed in the cleanliness and smell.

Cons: besides being smelly and not that clean they put out (and my wife, who does not read English was drawn too) some fish that had a sell by date of October 17 that my wife put subsequently put jnto our cart. We visited the store and purchased this fish on November 22 - over one month past its sell by date - for $18.99. We bought over $250 of stuff and I didn’t check everything she put in the cart trusting it would be somewhat fresh. Big mistake. She put it in freezer when we got home in November and today (December 11) she pulled it out to thaw and cook the next day and I saw the sell by date and was disgusted. This should never happen with any type of meat or seafood. Can’t believe this is not a health code violation. $18.99 for rotten fish…

Pros: for someone needing everything you need to do authentic Thai cooking they have pretty much all you need (hence the 2* and not 1), absent fresh...