New Wing Lung Food

The name is likely somewhat familiar but the business is very familiar for most Chinatown neighborhood locals. Their flagship store on Washington St. (https://www.yelp.com/biz/dai-lee-food-san-francisco?osq=dai+lee). After downsizing amidst the great world changes in 2020, they have filled many vacant retail store spaces on Washington as well as Pacific. The original posting for this was just a few doors downhill where they replaced a produce and grocery store.Like their competitor who took over the Asia Garden Restaurant, this group now occupies the former location of the popular Hong Kong Teahouse. As you can see from the photos, it is indeed on a supermarket scale size wise, with spacious aisles and walkways, unlike the original store. Snacks, instant noodles, and dry goods for Asian cooking are what they are known for. They have a refrigerated section with drinks and perishable foods and freezers with dumplings and meals too. If you want to avoid a claustrophobic and typical (not in a good way) crowded shopping environment, you will find this store more enjoyable than the Washington store. Just don't come here on an empty stomach.*** Recent reviews are the result of my recent increase in home cooking vs eating out.

This is a new update. What used to be a small narrow butt to butt touching shop is now a bigger butt to butt touching shop. They took over the old AAOMG clinic (which was closed for a long time, before that was a restaurant) They're definitely making good of space, but it seems you can never have enough of SPACE! It's forever crowded in there!!!!! They expanded in product as well, X5!! More noodles! More frozen buns and dim sum. More candy and different varieties of cookies & snack. More dry goods and package goods. It seems never ending in here. It's like Costco, you literally lose time and yourself in there because it's so much to see!! You want to buy every thing!!! They have aisles stacked up extremely high. So be careful how you take an item down. NEVER USE THEIR LADDERS OR STEPS! Even if it's out! It's very dangerous! Ask for assistance! They always have boxes laying on the floor, ready to stock up! They even give out free samples. They make dumplings/wontons, buns & cookie samplings. They would have those product on a sale price or a bargain price $10/3 or $15/5 (depending on the product) It's not always about to expire, it's because of over stock. (They still have the smaller shop as storage, that's how much product they have!!) But they do have sale for products that may be expiring soon. And if you purchase over certain amount, some times, they gift you the soon to be expired items. Few times, I have received free onion crackers, a bag of jello cups & box of almond cookies. Just because they're soon to expire, doesn't mean they are bad.

I was shopping for salted fish to make salted fish pork patty and salted fish and chicken fried rice. I usually buy a brand that is imported from Hong Kong at my regular store on Grant Ave, but I was surprised to see the high $28.99/lb price. So I decided to check out New Wing Lung Food, which a friend had mentioned to me.Walking up to the store, I hit the jackpot for salted fish. They had at least six different brands of packaged salted fish along with unpackaged ones hanging from the display at the front of the store. They also had the brand I was looking for at $2 less a pound than my regular store.The store also sells Chinese/Asian foodstuffs, condiments, dried noodles, condiments, spices, sauces, can goods, teas and more. It's a good sized store, but not as large as the two large ones on Stockton St. But, I know where I'll be shopping for my salted fish in the future and will need to consider them for the other foodstuffs that I shop for as well.