Oriental Market

Warning: their items are all almost expired and some of them are expired for years! Today I found this store on map and it's the first time I went there bought some groceries, I didn't pay attention to the expiration date when I'm at the store, just feel their layout is messy, only have few items, everything is covered by dirt, and they don't have other customers I was the only one there. but I have to buy something since I drove 35 mins to get there. When I get home, I opened a bag of pickles, it taste weird and I took a look at the package, it has expired for 2 YEARS!!! and I looked at other items I bought from there, they are either almost expired either are without manufacture date. Geez! Nightmare. It's the first time I have ever experienced this, I'm So angry right now and I will NEVER go there again!

I drove down to this store after my visit to Saraga International market. It's on the west side of Lafayette Road, just a couple of miles south of Saraga. I've been to a few stores around Indianapolis, and Oriental Market was likely the cleanest.As I entered, the young man behind the partition at the cash register, was completely involved with his phone and didn't look up.I heard people talking and walked to the right, where I saw a neat, small selection of produce. In fact, it's a small, neat store. As I walked through the aisles, I passed 3 people who didn't bother to say anything to me.They have good amounts of frozen foods, 50 and 15 pound bags of rice from most of the major brands, and a good amount of dry items, as well. I was surprised to find some housewares including hot water pots and rice cookers, also. I saw some clams and other seafood in a refrigerated case toward the back of the store.Unfortunately, they didn't have enough Japanese or Korean items to interest me to buy. The things I couldn't find at Saraga, they certainly didn't have, although they had both Japanese and Korean products.

This is a block or two south of Lee's. They have a lot of stuff packed into the place, and I would have enjoyed taking persisting inventory of their stock. However, the smell in there was so rancid that I Winsted of something once alive had taken shelter in the confines if their walls and up and died! I have cleaned up stinky baby doo doo, a drunk's puke, I've seen dead people, the innards of many animals and carried a rotting oppossum a half block to give it a proper dumpster. My point is that none of those things turned my stomach the way the smell in this market turned it. I can't purchase anything in a place that smells like that. May Mother Mary be with anyone who can.

In a part of Indianpolis that has quite a few international markets, this simply named emporium has a lot going for it. The staff, though not absolutely terrific at English, was very helpful in a quest for a variety of sesame seeds and sesame oils. The fresh produce located in the middle of the store offered a large selection of various tubers, roots, leafy vegetables and other pan-Asian greenery. They also stock Szechuan pepper, which is a great spice for you foodies out there. The prices were great too. I got a couple of pounds of whole star anise seed for next to nothing. Their cookware selection is reasonably priced too-- definitely worthy of a walk through the wok aisle. As typical of many of these stores, beware of the strong fishy aroma. Their seafood could not be fresher, however, as the vast majority was swimming about in the numerous and large aquaria.

Lafayette Road is home to a lot of Asian Market in Indianapolis (I believe there are six) and Oriental Market is at the top of my list! The store is pretty decent size for an Asian market but it's pretty well organize. I like that all the aisles are not crammed together but they left some room to walk around. Like most Asian market, the workers either speaks no English or speak very little of it but I'm glad there is a lady there I can speak Vietnamese to.Out of all the Asian market on this road, this place has the freshest vegetables and herbs. They do not have a wide selection like Saraga but I don't have to stand there and pick through all the bad ones. I like that they keep their leafy vegetable wrapped in plastic wrap and away from moisture which really help it last longer at home. They have a great seafood selection, and I want to make it clear that it is "exotic seafood". They really have expanded since last year where you can only find lobster, dungeness crab, a variety of fishes, and maybe clams. Recently, I feel like i'm on an episode of Anthony Bourdain's No Reservation with all the new items coming in such as razor clams, snails, gooey duck, stone crab,large squid, and so much more. Every time I go to this market I literally want to buy all the seafood and go home and make a banquet. Believe me my wallet has suffered tremendously courtesy of their lobster and snails. I agree with Yelper Thu N., a lot of their dried goods do not have price sticker. They label prices on outside of the their boxes for some items and for others you'll just have to ask them directly. Also get in the habit of checking expiration date when you shop at any Asian market. This place is not too bad with but can't say the same for the rest of the market on Lafayette...i'll continue this topic on another review.

This place is great! It is one of the newer asian markets to the area but continually improving. On a recent visit on a Thursday evening I was super excited and surprised to find so many unique items to test one's skill and creativity in the kitchen. Aisles and aisles of things not even found in the other international markets: frogs, live lobsters, 4 different types of clams and 3 different types of snails, 3 types of squid, fresh oysters, dungeness crab, jonah crab, and just so many wonderful items. I have been here numerous times before but have never seen some of these items before so I'm not sure if they always have them or if it was something special this week. One time we were in here the smallest lobster was 5lbs and had these wart things on them so my fiance asked where they get the lobsters from that they were so big. The owner kind of skirted around the question and told us "somewhere about 5 hours away", then walked away. so not sure what to think about that....but the fresh veggies that day make up for it. Many of the items don't have prices on them so that would be my only other complaint so far.

I just wanna warn everyone who buys stuff here to check and double check the information and labels on the things you buy. Some time last year I bought two bottles of chili sauce, the price tag was taped on the cap so I didn't notice. It was just recently that I only removed the price tag and realized that the products expired TWO years ago! I'm definitely avoiding this place at all cost.

good place to buy fresh and frozen seafood it seemed, and all kind of other things..went for kimchi resupply. only cabbage type.good price on produce..39 cents for green onions vs 99 cents at your average grocery store.

Very nice, organized supermarket. They seem to have been in business for a while. Honestly, this area isn't that great and I wish they relocate to Greenwood. Inside, it is pretty organized, well-stocked with a very good variety of asian grocery products. The price is also quite reasonable. Like I said, if they open elsewhere, such as greewood, they have really good business. Right now, it's kinda slow.