TESO Life — Local services in New York

Interesting place! A Japanese store staffed by young Chinese people, in Koreatown? Yeah, and with a Beyoncé album on the speakers.

Lots of women's cosmetics though I noticed nothing for men.

A great many packaged foods. I saw nothing fresh, though I didn't explore the whole place. Many, MANY varieties of Pocky and its derivatives by other makers. Also there twas a pretty full lineup of East Asian cooking equipment, as well as sauces, seasonings and oils for cooking.

The entrance is ground level, but the store itself is up a double flight of stairs. To opt for the elevator, ask the cashier, who will escort you out the door while calling another staffer. You go back on the street and walk left about 10 steps to a locked glass door. Then the other staffer lets you in and escorts you to the elevator. It's complicated.

Nihongo hanashi masen (I can't read Japanese). So I had no idea what many items were. For instance, I wondered if a certain product was toothpaste. It turned out to be hand lotion. Signs above the aisles all say the same thing, so the only way to find something is to ask a staffer, or go exploring.

Stores that sell home products designed by designers who have never seen the Western versions, and who therefore occasionally create innovative versions, are definitely worth exploring. Teso is...

Teso Life is actually a nice store full of interesting beauty products from Japan. Usually, my family would need to go back home to Japan to buy some of our beauty products, but Teso Life actually has them and the most updated line of products from various brand names, which was an absolute surprise to us. The prices are what you expect for import items from Japan, but if you need products from Japan and don't have the hook up, then this is the place to go hands down. I will only go here for emergencies, but still, it has a great line of items.

It only give it four stars, because you just get tired of the workers training they have here, its a typical place where workers are taught to stalk every customer for shoplifting, I know they are protecting themselves, but it gets out of hand because it is too obvious, kind of like standing behind a tree where we obviously see you...

The one male cashiers who checked me out was really friendly. Some of them more specifically the sheltered women upstairs need to be better trained to not stare at people and stand in the way like security guards. It’s exhausting. I call them sheltered because it’s wrong to watch people and not scoot over when they’re trying to read something because you don’t view them as a usual customer, it’s a lack in cultural awareness. However, I found a lot of goods here ! But I won’t come back for home/body items. I found a Japanese market in Brooklyn with the same products, i would have returned here for drinks at least but I see these kind of reviews date back to years prior so nothing has been changed. I like to spend money I’ll go to the Japanese...