Lion Supermarket

This Lion is conveniently located on my drive home from the office so I come regularly to buy what i need to prep for dinner. Another plus is that the Lion Market plaza has good restaurant options if i decided not to cook for dinner. Price wise, i feel lion is a hit & miss compares to 99 Ranch, but Lion has more Vietnamese & other southeast asian varieties, so that is another reason to shop here.

I stopped by to pick up some unique Asian groceries since I was in the area. It has most of the Asian brands that you can't find in a normal US supermarket, but the selection is smaller compare to other Asian supermarket chains in the area.The floor seems dirty and the smell is pretty strong. The clerk was a bit cold and didn't help me put my groceries into bags at all during check out.I will be hesitant to return.

I was at the checkout, an Asian woman jumped in front of me, pushed my items back and told the cashier she was in a hurry and to take her ahead of me. I was calm, expecting the cashier to do her job and to inform the woman that she would have to get in line behind me. But no!!! She tells me in English to wait. ( I've taught Mandarin students before, I knew everything they were saying before she switched languages. I was shopping in an Asian grocery store - why would she just assume that I couldn't understand them??!!)The customer, or the employee, could have asked if that awful woman could go in front of me. These women embarrassed their families, obviously not raised properly. Rude and unladylike. Go to this store only if you're desperate for Asian market goods and you're okay with being treated horribly. They discriminate here. They serve up prejudice with their products.

There are pretty many Asian products, some of which are hard to find in other Asian supermarkets. The price here generally are lower than Asian supermarkets like 99 Ranch. While most of the meat, vegetables and fruits are not very fresh.

This is a typical Asian market. Don't come looking for your pretty whole foods or sprouts. What you see is what you get. But the prices for the cuts you expect are reasonable. I get my porks, chicken, and some Asian cuts of beef here for my Asian Co King and koreanbbk cooking. Also, some frozen hot pot meats. I get my specialty sauces here as well and seasonings. They have a Filipino section also.

This the closest Asian grocery store, but I really hate shopping here. It's selections are limited compared to other Asian groceries and supermarkets around the Tri-city area. Prices here are $1 to $2.50 higher compared to 99 Ranch, Seafood City, Island Pacific and Food Marina Center.This supermarket does price gouging during the pandemic. It was pretty bad taking advantage of customers. Think before you buy here.

Could be better but still love going here because it's the closest place to get a crazy variety of different asian stuff we grew up with. You'll find chinese stuff but also thai, philipino, vietnamese, korean, japanese, etc... they will carry a lot of snacks and brands you will only find at asian markets.We love the crazy amount of rice and noodles you can find and are always trying different brands. The vegetables and fruit section will have a bunch of stuff you can also find in asian markets as well.We also find stuff here like Sriracha where the packaging design and taste haven't changed at all in decades like oyster sauce, canned dace fish, etc...When you walk in during the morning there will be an incense smell and its pretty chilly near the back where the live fish are and the meat. We don't really get meat or fish here since the quality doesn't seem that great. The salmon we got one time didn't seem very good quality, the chicken we got for chicken soup seemed OK but the soup had way more yellow oil than chicken from other places.

Last week, I bought 2 markerels from this market. They looked good outside, but when I washed the fish, the meat loosened up and fell apart. I did not think of writing a review so I did not take a picture of them. I had to throw them away in concern of safety. 3 days ago, I bought a punch of green vegetables. Speechless when I opened it. Stuck in center are grass, dead/bruised/yellow leaves. Unbelievable. Like a joke. I feel cheated. Ruin my dinner plan.

Attention! DO NOT SHOP AT THIS PLACE !They steal customers' $ by double charged one item on purpose!This was not the first time happened to me. The first time was one year ago near lunar New year, I bought lots of food then found out a couple days later that the cashier extra charged me one item which cost me 10 dollars more. It's new year so no time to argue with them. This time, I found the cashier extra charged me a pack of dried noodle $5.69 when I arrived home. WTF !!!This purchase was for my daughter to bring back to school in SF. She only have one pack of dried noodle and she only grabbed one pack from the store shelf.Lion Supermarket : proof me wrong to check your camera !! Or return the money to my credit card. Or I will file a complain.

meat area is pretty strong stinky smell.Sometime Spoiled Ground Pork were sold and last few days I bought 1 bag of chicken drumsticks, when got home open the bag, the bad stinky smell that I had to trashed whole bag of chicken drumsticks.