3 H is for Heaven

Food heaven, that is! I'm talking about Super H Mart. I have never heard of them before, but found out quite by accident today. See, my husband and I took our daughter to see Shen Yun Performing Arts this afternoon (classical Chinese dance with anti-communist flare here and there - great show, by the way, see it if it comes to your town) and in the program there was a full page color ad for H Mart, and its grand opening celebration.  We decided to check it out since it wasn't too far.

It is a store that, simply put, is ethnic foods.  It's truly international.  Mostly Asian - Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese, Thai, Hawaiian, but also African, Hispanic, even a little Italian!

This place is ENORMOUS.  I was awed.  And inspired!  And totally overwhelmed.  So, I did what any self-respecting food blogger does.  I whipped out my iPhone and started snapping pictures.

The seafood "counter".  Yes, those are live tilapia!  They aren't soley indigenous to vacuum-sealed bags after all!

We picked up 5 lbs of shrimp for $1.99 a pound!

Monkfish...you know, like on Iron Chef?

Moving on to DRIED fish (as opposed to the still-living variety.)  This is a huge dried squid.

Loads, and loads of them.

I wonder if the Georgia Aquarium knows about this place....

Fresh prepared foods like kimchi.

Frozen pork buns.

Gyoza!  E's favorite.  They had a lady out with samples of another brand (not shown here) and we bought about 6 bags.  They have MINI gyoza, bite size.  Look for those in her bento boxes soon!

After you go through the registers, there's a huge food court with just about every Asian cuisine represented, a French bakery, and then around the corner are separate little shops, like this cosmetics counter.

I'm not afraid to admit it...I'm already in love with this place, even if I didn't find any bento supplies this time around.  I think I'll have a word with the store manager.  :-)