Wing Wa Oriental Market — Attraction in Salem

You need products for Asian dishes? This place has it. Frozen frog legs? Check. Super-obscure Chinese soy sauce? Check. Dan tat shells for filling with your own homemade egg custard? Check. Wheat and rice starch? Check. You want noodles? They have dozens of types. Dishes? In multiple designs. Pots, steamers, strainers? They have several sizes of each. How about teas? They have an entire isle of them. Want seeds to grow your own Thai peppers? Yep. How about incense? You can get a tub. Yeah, you read that right. A TUB of incense sticks. Frozen fish, mochi ice cream, octopus and squid and eel. Slippers, farmer's hats, scarves, and brassieres. Sauces and doughs and rice coming out your ears. Maybe you want dumplings? Oh, they have dumplings all right. SCADS of dumplings. Bao. Dan tat. Produce. Herbs. Spices. Candy. Supplements.

... you need it? They got it. If they don't have it? You're not finding...

The business has all the essentials you’d need, but the location is a bit sketchy, especially if you're not familiar with the area. During my visit, I noticed multiple police cars parked outside, with an arrest happening right in the parking lot, which added to the uneasy vibe. Additionally, the bars on the windows made me feel a bit uncomfortable. However, I don't think the business is at fault for this—it seems more like a reflection of the neighborhood. Last note: The inside was not well organized either, the refrigerators/freezers were very dated and grimy and after looking through the kimchi I would be surprised if fridge temps were being monitored by...

Love this place. Saves a major trip to Portland. They have some fresh vegetables at reasonable prices, frozen Oriental meats, different manufactuers of spring roll doughs, wonton/goyza wrappers, egg roll wrappers as well as different kinds of frozen dim sum. They also have fresh-frozen rice/egg noodles, which I buy a lot of, as well as a huge array of dried noodles, lentils, beans & rice varieties. If you are looking for desserts, they have a full isle of cookies, pasteries and canned fruits you wouldn't find in a regular grocery store. There's more but I'm (finally) out of words! As I said, I...