Thais R Us Oriental Grocers

Great, had everything I needed! Really helpful staff.

Love this place! Going Thai lady told me which were the best rice noodles and told me how to cook them properly which has never failed me. Only criticism, wish they could tell you what half the items were!

Great selection of all kinds of Asian food. .Thai,Filipino,Japanese,Korean..you name it..Selection of frozen produce eg dumplings,fish, seafood. Good selection of rice..sushi, glutinous, jasmine etc, and an enormous range of noodles and herbs and spices. If you need speciality Asian Ingredients then this is your "go to" place and will probably save you a lot of time shopping around.

Favourite grocery in Canterbury, tbh. Lots of variety, staff are super friendly and helpful! I always buy my specialist foods here plus a treat; I'd buy more stuff, more often; if I didn't have to get the bus over from Cliftonville. It's a really good range, especially if you grew up with quite a culturally varied diet. I grew up with east and west Asian foods plus European foods, and this is the only store I know of where I can get my methi, garam, cardamom, AND tofu, festival noodles (aka fat, savoury rice cakes), tiny aubergine, morning glory AND decent bouillon, etc. Having lost my mum, it's been really good to be able to cook the things she taught me growing up without a billion substitutions. Of course they also stock a huge variety of instant noodles, sweets, snacks, etc I'm so glad the store kept the pun name when they moved (many years ago). I would say that wheelchair users may find the store slightly inaccessible as the aisles are quite tight - but the threshold is definitely accessible and the doorway wide enough to enter. You may need to turn at the ends rather than in aisles, is all, if you can get down them (depends on your chair). I also find I can actually access top shelf items, unlike in a lot of small supermarkets, which -might- be useful for anyone on wheels, though I imagine some things will still be out of reach. (I'm a bit short and often need help to reach things in Tesco, so I notice when a store doesn't do that to me.)

My go to place for soups, spices, dim sum, pancakes, sweets and so much more. Clean and tidy too.