Asia Global Market — Local services in West Lafayette

This is arguably the oldest Asian market in the Tippecanoe, Carroll, and White County areas. It has been in operated in essentially a consistent manner since the 1990s and expanded since then.

This market offers the kind of store experience one would find going to a small shop in a southeast-Asian country. It does a good job with providing a diverse selection of foods from different Asian countries, most especially given its size opposed to focusing on foods strictly from the likes of Japan or Korea. They do, tho', have some fare from such locales, e.g., kinoko no yama (Japanese chocolate biscuit/cookie snacks otherwise known as 'Choco Shrooms' to Westerners).

They have a decent selection of frozen dumplings and buns, i.e., mandu, gyoza, xiaolongbao (soup dumplings), bao, siaopao, etc. The frozen goods are also kept in freezer cases with doors opposed to open-top, non-closed cases so their storage temperature is kept constant as possible. They also seem to have perhaps one of the larger selections of fresh tofu.

Their staff is also polite, patient, and helpful in regard to questions about products.

Pro Tip

If you are a timid driver and do not want to fight traffic, I recommend you drive to the store from the traffic circle/rotary on Northwestern Avenue and turn onto Yeager Road from it.

Otherwise, if you choose to drive to the store from 52, you will possibly have to wait in the middle turn lane and chance playing playing chicken with traffic coming from Northwestern (because you will have to turn left in front of them to enter Asia Global Market's...

In my opinion (as a non-Asian person) the best Asian grocery store in greater Lafayette. They have a quite comprehensive inventory and good prices, and the staff are friendly and helpful. My only quibble is the produce section - produce can be seasonal, of course, but their selection seems to change a lot every time I visit, and the labels are not always correct, not translation problems but for example bok choy labeled in both Chinese and English as Chinese broccoli. If you’re looking for something you’re not familiar with, you could easily end up with the wrong thing. Other than that, I’d highly recommend paying them a visit if you’re looking for any Asian (or even some other hard-to-find international)...

This place collect tax on grocery which is against tbe law .Their bill shows zero as tax but she added a line item seperate on my bill with a discription as grocery $(2.37) and when i asked what was that she said its for tax. The tax is $2.48 in my bill if thats correct. Then i said your bill show that tax is zero, she said her system is not working. Anyone has the same experience? I think think this place charges people additional money for the the stuff we buy secretly. This is not good business if so. I have never seeing any place in town charge tax...