Saigon Asian Market — Local services in Monroe

I’ve been wanting to go to this little store for a while now, and finally did yesterday! I had a pretty good idea of what I wanted and what something’s were but there’s so much stuff in there it’s overwhelming. I would’ve given them 4/5 stars BUT… when you check out they have the screen that displays their cameras. Well on that same screen next to where there are the views of the cameras, there’s 4 or 5 smaller boxes. The boxes have screenshots of different people in the store, but not everyone that goes in there. More specifically they had screenshots of me, and some of a black guy. Mind you I also was in there with my white fiancé and he wasn’t in any of the boxes.(I’m Hispanic) I didn’t like that at all and definitely felt like they racially profiling me and the other man and basically thought we were stealing. Yet I spent...

Saigon Asian Market is a gem! It has alllll the staples I sought out at huge Asian markets in California and Massachusetts, and the prices are extremely reasonable. Being vegan in this part of Louisiana just got a lot easier. They have chicken flavored bouillon, dried soy slices, fried tofu, regular tofu, silken tofu, miso paste, frozen cooked veggie dumplings, frozen sesame-, taro-, and sweet potato-filled buns, rice vermicelli, a variety of rice paper wrappers, veggies you won't find at Walmart, spices galore, and enough dried mushrooms to make my fungus-loving heart cross the border of Happy into Euphoria. I'm definitely going to be a...

Since the moving of locations and renaming from Bao Bao to Saigon, the selection and service have gotten much much better. They now carry a pretty complete array of frozen and canned goods, kitchen hardware, fresh fruits and vegetables as well as take home meals, baked goods and many others from various Asian countries.

The store stays well stocked, and the items seem to be rotated appropriately. Hats off to the owners for giving this store a 180 in the...