Richmond New May Wah Supermarket’s — Attraction in San Francisco

There's a place in Richmond where you can buy everything you'd ever need at a price you can always afford. Assuming everything you need is vegetables, meat, seafood, and various dry goods imported from Asia, you'll be set.

New May Wah is a great market. There are not enough superlatives to justify how fresh the produce is, how inexpensive and nice the meat is, and while I haven't yet taken home a whole live carp, I want to every time I walk past the chicken carcasses that are crying out to be made into soup. If you don't have the right cleaver to chop up the bok choy, you choy, and spinaches, they sell them in the back next to the clay pots, but I don't come here for the utensils. I come for the rice selection, the spices, and more instant noodle options than I knew existed.

In a city that doesn't seem to sell plain gelatin (Trade Joes, f you), New May Wah has it. That's turned into my mantra. As long as you like to actually cook, not just microwave frozen organic whole-wheat pocket sandwiches stuffed with kale and squash at 5 dollars a pocket, then you will love New May Wah. Any Asian mother would.

If you don't love it, enjoy your...

While prices may be competitive here, the quality and freshness of the produce vary significantly. For example, I purchased some clams and one lobster, and while the quality of the lobster was passable, the clams were not particularly fresh.

More importantly, the fruits seemed to have been tampered with a special treatment to conceal its freshness.

For instance, I purchased two bags of mangosteen, and although they may still appear green (and fresh) on the outside, they were all rotten inside.

I don't know how Richmond New May Wah Supemarket has treated the mangosteen to make them appear fresh when the fruit actually isn't, but this experience has created the doubt of whether the other kinds of food sold here have also been specially treated.

I am Asian and I have never had a similar problem where a business applies techniques to hide the freshness of its selections in an attempt to fool its customers about their freshness.

Strongly advised to visit another business instead: shady practices as such should...

Avoid this market as much as possible. There is nothing super about it except for the workers in the meat, vege and seafood sections. The other half of the market is chaos. They may have recently changed over management but they have 1-2 people working the cash registers during peak weekend times while others are milling around looking busy. I paid this market a visit two weekends in a row and both times the line to check out went to the back of the store.

Today was a bit more egregious. After standing in the long queue (I started in the back of the store) I got to the front to see one of the busy-looking employees open up another register and help someone who had been standing off to the side complaining. Instead of taking the next person in the long line. The person behind me also saw what happened and was ignored when she mentioned it was unfair to take people out of the queue. The cashiers didn’t care and just said “Do you want to pay your stuff or not?” Skip this market if you want to keep...