ehBeth wrote:MT is part of Chinatown Centre
http://www.chinatownaustin.com/
10901 N. Lamar Blvd
(not so small
Quote:With over 55,000 square feet of shopping you can find live seafood, exotic produce, holistic medicine, and much more! In addition to extraordinary and authentic Asian items, MT Supermarket carries the items you would find in your local market.
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You could make an adventure out of going there as their Chinese New Year celebrations are in less than a month.
Oh yeah, I've seen that place. it's up on Lamar near Airport Blvd.
Never been in it, but I know a lot of asian people go there for authentic stuff.
Re: City Market, the store as a whole really is horrible shewolf. It's a part of "old" Austin that is dying out, and in this case, it's a good thing.
It reminds me of some markets when I lived in Fla.
There'd be an old run down supermarket in the middle of an area where no one has any money, doesn't own a car, and need to get some food. A can of something that would cost a dollar anywhere else would be $1.42 or $1.60 there. They had a captive audience.
When I first moved into my neighborhood, our neighbors where an elderly couple, Willard and Geneva (both passed on now, RIP) Geneva always went to the City Market, now draft house because....well....it was she had done her shopping since God was a child. The little center that one was in still has the funkiest stores. I don't know how they stay in business. Let's see....there's "Let's Dish!" A place owned by some old gay guy that sells old china and ****. There's a teeny tiny drug store that reminds me of back in the 60's....there's a greeting card rack that has like 3 birthday cards in it....New Age bookstore....A place called "Bitchin' Threads"...A place called City Gym that's really nasty looking....A motor scooter place....etc. Believe me, I love neighborhood stores, but this place is pretty useless.
The one on Ben White has a Tejano night club next to it, or it used to.