CAM International Market — Attraction in North Randall

Catering primarily to Chinese and East Asian immigrants, Cleveland Asia Market (C.A.M) is your typical neighborhood ethnic grocery store on steroids: within the sprawling complex (a converted Toys-R-Us store), conveniently located right off of I-480, can be found an amazing selection of products. The widest selection - and best deals - are of dried and canned goods, including rice, noodles, sauces, condiments, dried fish, and preserved vegetables (including what is likely the largest stash of pickled spicy radish you will ever spot outside of Chengdu). Unique among Asian grocery stores in Cleveland, C.A.M. has a small “European” section that features an eclectic mix of Russian goods ranging from snacks to sausages to jams to beverages (I highly recommend the fermented kvas if you’re feeling adventurous, but the Baikal brand mineral water and Tsar Nicholas II tea are also good). There’s even a small bubble tea and potato pancake bodega in the lobby so patrons can nosh while they shop! Despite the various attractions, there are some downsides to C.A.M.: the produce is overpriced, as are the frozen foods and the (very limited) selection of baked goods in the lobby. Additionally, C.A.M. does not have a particularly wide selection of kitchen supplies or bulk foods – for those items I prefer visiting Park to Shop in Cleveland’s Chinatown district. Despite these shortcomings, if you’re having trouble finding a specialty East Asian food item elsewhere in town, it will most likely...

I love this place. They have a large variety of Asian produce and Asian products from China, Japan, Korea, Thailand, etc. I got some Asian cookies, tea and milk, and a brown sugar milk tea with jelly and a taro milk tea with jelly from their prepared food counter. The milk tea was delicious. It was not too sweet, and the jelly had a really great taste and consistency. The Puku Puku cookies were great if you like wafer cookies. They are shaped like fish, which is super cute. The chocolate inside is milky and airey. It has bubbles in it, so it's not dense chocolate, but it has a nice flavor and, again, not too sweet. I got instant ramen, which they have tons of varieties from different parts of Asia, and I got an instant tea with milk mix that I have yet to try, but it sounds good. Oolong and milk. I can't wait to go back because they have so many spices, produce, frozen dumplings, soup mixes, noodles, instant ramen, and prepared foods to try. I also got a frozen ice cream that's similar to a Vienetta that I haven't tried yet but was excited to get because I haven't been able to get a Vienetta since the 90s. So I'm hoping it tastes similar because it looks similar. My order came to about $60.00, which was relatively inexpensive considering how many things I got and how many...

This is the only place we know for genuine Asian groceries. I, my husband, and our friends have been particular about finding things such as pocky, ramune, sushi nori, sticky rice, gyoza wrapers, and gyoza. More and more stores offer some of these things.

FYE and sometimes Spencers, Hot Topic, or Five Below will offer ramune (a really unique Japanese soda served in a cool glass bottle with a marble stopper -- you're cool if you know how to open it) and pocky (a fun Japanese snack that is a cookie shaped like a pretzel stick and dipped in various flavors of yogurt a lot like a chocolate-dipped pretzel. The stick is sweet and not savory and the yogurt flavors can be green tea, strawberry, chocolate, or hazelnut {these are typical flavors}. There is usually one flavor per box.)

For awhile, Giant Eagle offered pocky, gyoza wrappers, and sushi nori (roasted seaweed paper used in making sushi rolls and wraps), but now, I can't find these things there. I can only find...