H Mart Long Island City

Went to Hmart to do grocery shopping and stop by their food hall for lunch, food is very good and nice is a individual store selling different kind of authentic Korean food.

I used to live near here over 10 years ago and this location used to be a Stop N Shop supermarket. I saw that it's now an H-mart and I happened to be in the area so we stopped in to do some grocery shopping. This supermarket is so big and clean and everything is so fresh. When you first enter you're in the produce section and all the fruits and vegetables look picture perfect. I checked out the seafood section and they had tons of different fresh fish on ice. Surprisingly there was no fishy smell at all by the seafood section. The aisles were more than wide enough for 2 shopping carts to pass. Lastly, the bakery section smelled great and all the pastries and cakes in the display case looked delicious. I couldn't resist and got a couple of almond croissants to go.

H Mart is a popular Korean grocery chain and the Long Island city branch is excellent because of its large scale, competitive prices, clean, and well maintained interior, and the food court that accompany it. I love the banchan (Korean side dish) section. Although they are a Korean grocery chain, they carry ingredients from Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Thai, and other Asian cuisines.

I love this location. They have one of the greatest selection on Japanese, Korean and Chinese goodies! We definitely visit H Mart monthly, stocking up on fish cakes, instant noodles, sushi kimbap and our fav Asian snacks (banana kicks!!). Tip: waiting until past 6pm and snag their own kimchi soup when it goes 50%OFF. Kimchi stew here one of the greatest stews!!!

The prepared food here is alright. Chicken rice bowl: For $8, this was pretty good. Extremely generous portion of chicken and rice. The chicken was very meaty, not particularly moist but it was tender and it wasn’t dry. Nice mix of light and dark meat. It was well seasoned but not salty. The main flavorings were sugar, mild chile and onion. It was sweet, a little sweeter than I would have liked, but not at all cloying and pretty typical for Korean cuisine. Rice was a little bit firmer than I like but overall very good. I got this at the end of the day, may have been even better at lunch time. Oh, and it was not spicy. Tteokbokki with fish cake: pretty standard, good but not special. Rice cakes were firm and chewy. Fish cakes were fine. The sauce was sweet but not excessively so. It was spicy, but not very spicy. Spicy tuna onigiri: I appreciate that this rice ball had a good amount of filling, but unfortunately it wasn’t really that spicy or flavorful. Stuffed inari: too sweet. Tiger sushi: I’m still not really sure what was in this roll, but it was okay. Gimbap: it’s fine gimbap, but could be a little more flavorful. Better when warmed up.