Three Asian food stores in Sasang, Asia, Asian, Pak-Asia: beans, curry, rice, meat Options

[busanfoodguy]

Asian Food Mart:

Take the subway to Sasang #227, exit to the Sobu Bus Terminal. Walk out of exit number 3 and go straight towards the river and Emart/Homeplus. Turn right at the first street. You will see the Asian Mart on your left before the next corner. The store faces the wall of the back of the Sobu Bus Terminal.

It is a small place, but packed with Indian/Pakistani products. You might like to drop by and buy dried red beans to make chili at home. Or, you might like the long grain rice they sell. Or the frozen lamb. Lentils? Chick Peas/Garbanzos?

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I was told that their restaurant, Quetta, is now closed.

This post has been edited by busanfoodguy: May 12 2007, 05:18 PM

[salam5]

Yeah, this place pretty much rocks. I went there yesterday not expecting all that much and ended up spending 30,000 without blinking.
Best of all they had fresh cilantro....three plants for...get this...2,000 won. I just made some salsa with it and it's good s***. Premium. I even planted one for kicks.
I also bought some frozen samosas, the exact same kind they sell at Ganga. What do they sell those for at Ganga....2 for 5,000 or some such crap? Anyway, a big bag of them was 9,000, so I grabbed one.
When you go make sure to talk to the owner. She's Korean, and married to a Pakistani who runs the place down the street. She speaks a bit of English too. She took us on a little tour of the place and was really nice. They have also have lamb, halal meats, and a bunch of hard to find rices.
I thought someone on here had said they sold tortillas, but when we asked the woman the only "tortilla" she'd ever carried is the Indian style flat cracker bread.

**The one thing I would say about these directions is that when you come up the subway stairs you are facing the Lotteria, but the front of the Lotteria faces the street so you're actually looking at the side. You still go left.
***I only say this because people seem to get a bit huffy about directions on here...

This post has been edited by salam5: Sep 30 2006, 04:22 PM

[Turlbo]

Well now let's see if we can get this straight here. Now in Sasang there are three Asian markets, all within a block of each other. I can verify this because I reside right across the street from the one that has been here the longest; which is the one on the street running parallel to that which the E-mart, Rene City, and Homeplus face. It is also just one block over. The other two are just around the corners, on streets running perpendicular each on opposite sides. These other two are also in the blocks closer to the main street. Right now I do not know the name of each, but the one associated with the Quetta (Indian or South Asian) restaurant is on the street which is closer to Seobu Terminal and the Subway, or further away from the E-mart. Just for the record the restaurant by the way was at first an Asian market, last year before they got the brilliant idea that actually a restaurant was needed more than the market and then they moved the market to the next block and converted the other one to a restaurant.

Now besides food items I can say that their other main product seems to be phone cards.

[busanfoodguy]

The original store is called ASIA MART. Mr. Ali Malik and his wife own it. It opened 8 years ago.
Phone: 322-6080 HP 010-7475-6080, email: asiamart72@yahoo.com English is spoken.
Open 10:30 AM to 11:30 PM every day.

To find this store, walk out the street exit #3 and walk directly towards Emart/HomePlus. At the second street, turn right and walk past the Pak-Asia store. Turn right at the corner and you will see it quickly on your left.

The store has the largest variety of products from the largest number of countries. Featured products are from Sri Lanka, Nepal, India, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam. They have International Calling Cards, DVD's, a large selection of grains, spices, snacks, sweets, canned foods, grains AND TORTILLAS as well as PITAS. Also, Hanoi Beer and TsingTao. Samosas and Indonesian honey.

6 inch tortillas, 3,000 won; 8 inch, 4,000 won; 10 inch, 5,000 won. Pitas for 4,000 won.

Lamb ribs or legs, 1.8 Kg, 11,000 won Boneless Lamb, 2Kg 15,000 won Ground Beef 1 Kg, 7,000 won... [Compare your local grocery store and see what you can buy for 700 won per 100 grams!]

Basmatti rice, 1 Kg, 7,000 won Thai Jasmin rice, 5 Kg, 15,000 won Thai long grain, 10Kg, 15,000 won

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[busanfoodguy]

The third store is facing Emart. This is the Pak-Asia Mart.

In order to find what you want for the best price, you really need to visit and compare all three of the stores. The day I visited, I noticed that the huge bottles of Chinese Tsing Tao beer cost 2.500 won at Asia mart, but Pak-Asia had them for 2,000 won. These bottles are TWICE the size of those at MegaMart and such. Each store is slightly different.. prices and products.

The Pak-Asia store is across from Emart. Take the subway to Sasang and leave via exit number 3. Walk straight ahead towards Emart/HomePlus. Turn right at the second intersection at Emart. Pak-Asia is close by on your right side.

In summary, the three stores are each on the three sides of the same block.

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This post has been edited by busanfoodguy: May 12 2007, 05:16 PM

[irrerve09]

asian nightlife is the best because its not just about clubs or fast food diners or some open grocery stores or walmarts.

they really know how to do nightlife with street vendors, shopping etc. you can get any type of food at night or go shopping. also, they have very nice bars. asians are way ahead and less boring in this department.