Hing Lung Asian Food Center — Attraction in Sacramento

Excellent prices on fresh meat and seafood. The best baked BBQ Pork Baos in Sacramento. Communication is pretty easy when it comes to food, even with little English being spoken. The staff is old school and quiet so many people mistake this for being rude or conceited but it's really not. The folks there are respectful and kind. If you need help it will come! I've never felt unwelcome or uncomfortable here!

They carry live fish and crustaceans, the pork butt is gorgeous. I made char siu with it and it was better than all the others I've tasted in Sacramento. They have hot foods at nice prices. You can find cookware, frozen Asian convenience foods/snacks like Siu Mai, dumplings, and Baos.

There are sauces/spices/marinades of all kinds, most of which are not carried by major grocers or even advertised and unless you're familiar with Asian foods, you'd be suprised to see them. They have a small but power packed produce section with real pricing. Fancy stores can sell exotic Asian pears for 4.99 a pound while AFC prices them around 1.99 a pound. The produce always looks fresh and shows that they move what they bring in.

Try the store out and you'll find something...

BE AWARE WHEN YOU ORDER COOKED FOOD

They don't wear gloves when cutting/handling the cooked food such as the roast duck, chicken, pork, etc. When I asked for them to please wear gloves before cutting my duck, the young clerk became very defensive, claiming since her hands were clean the gloves would be unnecessary. However, I saw her using the same rag that she uses to wipe her hands on the chopping board! I then simply asked her not to cut the whole duck and just give it to me whole (since I didn't want someone else's hands on my food before I eat it), and she instantly insulted me, saying "you must not cook at home, huh?" How rude! Why not just put on gloves? Or if you don't have gloves, just tell me, and then not cut my whole duck? This also happened previously when I ordered the steamed chicken, so this definitely isn't a one off thing. That time was worse, though, since they also cut it up right next to the raw chicken and pork. As other people have noted, there are numerous basic health violations. Due to lack of hygiene, definitely don't go here for cooked food. Just go to Ranch 99, it's the same price and at least they...

I went here by bus because I wanted to watch my emissions and was glad to see an asian market close to my downtown apartment. Looks like they have a good variety of asian food, specifically Chinese, though I saw some of my Filipino basics.

I tried to get shaoxing wine with my ebt card, which is acceptable at other places, but the cashier said that I couldn’t buy it with my card. She almost even asked me for ID. For shaoxing wine! No one is tweaking on that stuff, I just wanted to make a chicken shiitake soup and forgot that I ran out of it.

I didn’t have enough cash to pay for it, so she said I could pay for it by card, but it would be like a $.50 surcharge or something. And this was for an item that should be covered by ebt in the first place. Sorry to the earth, but I left and drove to Shun Fat Supermarket to get my cooking wine out...