Holiday International Market — Local services in Huntsville

I've been coming to this grocery store for several years now, and have gotten to know the owners of the place since. The family who runs this place are kind people who work very hard, so even though it's not in the most convenient location for me, I do go out of the way to patronize their business!

This place probably has the most variety of Korean products in the entire city. Products are always fresh, and the in-house prepared food items are excellent quality. This is one of the only places I buy house made kimchi from (aside from Haru in madison, when they were able to sell kimchi.) More recently they started carrying more Japanese food items as well.

I like coming here because the owners are always stocking the store with new foods to try and several different brands, including flatware and cookware, so every week or so there's new products in stock. They carry popular street food items such as Korean corn dogs and plenty of noodle and tteokbokki dishes. they have an entire aisle dedicated to ramens and instant foods!

Over the past few years this store has really blossomed into a booming business so I'm very excited to see if they plan on expanding their inventory...

We absolutely love this place, as we are Korean. It has all the essentials that you need for Korean stuff. Maybe it doesn't have those particular 'brands' that you prefer, but who really cares? This is Huntsville. You have people reviewing on here acting like this is downtown Atlanta or LA. Our demographics are 2.2% "Asian alone" in Huntsville, 60% white and 31% black.

There's no massive demand and so it's a tougher market to operate in as an Asian market. You guys act like this is supposed to be H-Mart, this is a family business doing their best to get stuff to us. and to top it all off, as someone who used to go to ATL all the time for groceries (like everyone else in Deep South Alabama), it's clear that they're not trying to rip us off in prices. They actually don't mark up much at all and some prices are really close or matching what's 3-3.5 hours away. Take what you can get for being in Huntsville, or you can go drive that awful windy route to ATL yourself and burn through your tire treads doing the typical monthly...

I prefer to shop at local, small markets, so I checked out this place when I first moved into the area. Attracted to the pick 5 meat deal, I picked a variety of packs. I'm a huge carnivore, adore all things meat, but I did something with the five packs of meat I've NEVER done with meat - I threw it all out!

The bacon is, I suspect, boar bacon rather than pork...obnoxious odor and flavor evident as soon as it hit the pan. Similar experience with the pork steak, and the beef was so tough even after slow simmering for hours it was inedible. Crucial telling point: one of my cats will eat ANY meat and beg for more and she refused any scrap from this haul. That's when I just tossed it all. A failed experiment. I wanted to like this place, to support someone stuck right next to a big box, trying to make it, but...