Japanese grocery stores in the UK and Ireland
posted on 26 Jan 2008 by maki ::
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Ireland
We do have some listings for Ireland in the comments below…I’ll incorporate them in here soon!
UK
General UK notes: Obviously the vast majority of Japanese and Asian groceries are located in and around London!
London and environs
- Arigato Japanese Supermarket
- 48 Brewer Street
- London W1F 9TG
- 020 7287 1722
- Comments: “A nicely laid out mini-supermarket with a prepared food/bento section. Prices are generally a little higher here than at the Rice Wine Shop.” -(Loretta)
- Centre Point Food Store
- 20-21 St. Giles High Street
- London WC2H 8LN
- Tel: 020 7836 9860 Fax: 020 7240 1702
- Korean and English web site
- Comments: “Japanese and Korean store. Conveniently situated near Tottenham Court Road station, this good sized grocery stocks most of the common Japanese staples. Staff are friendly and very helpful with any Korean food questions you might have.” -(Loretta)
- Japan Centre
- 212-213 Piccadilly
- London W1J 9HX
- Tel: 020-7434-4218 Fax: 020-7287-1082
- English and Japanese web site
- e-mail: foodshop [at] japancentre [dot] com
- Comments: “They have just expanded their grocery section by opening up a department next to the original premises. Prepared food and bento is available from the Toku restaurant. Also of note now is a fantastic range of cooking and tableware priced at 1.50GBP - like a very high-class ¥100 store.”-(Loretta)
- They have a cooperation with Daiso, a 100yen store chain
- Within the Japan Centre is
- Yoshino Sushi
- Tel: 020-7434-3610 Fax: 020-7439-2979
- e-mail: yoshino [at] yoshino [dot] net
- Comments: “A dependable source for sushi and sashimi grade fish you can prepare yourself.” -(Loretta)
- Oriental City (CLOSED)
- 399 Edgware Road
- London, NW9 0JJ
- Rice Wine Shop
- 82 Brewer Street
- SOHO, LONDON, W1F 9UA
- 020-7439-3705
- Japanese web site
- Comments: “I feel great loyalty to this store. Although small it has an excellent selection of groceries and consistently good prices. Can be accessed with a wheelchair (a squeeze but possible)” -(Loretta)
- According to the site they will delivery to the UK mainland (though their site is all in Japanese…)
- Seoul Plaza
- Seoul Plaza 4
- 136 Golders Green Road
- London, NW11 8HB
- 020 8731 7999
- Several other locations
- Korean and English web site
- Comments: “Not Japanese, but Seoul Plaza in Golders Green has a decent range of Japanese stuff. And looking at their website there are 3 branches in New Malden, one in Cambridge, and one in Bratislava (!). Not been to any of the others but I expect they also stock Japanese food.” -(Alice)
(below is still unformatted - working on it!)
Oriental Delight Fairly pricey, but centrally-located and has a bigger range of Japanese food than the Chinese supermarkets nearby.
14 Gerrard St, London W1D 5PT 020 7439 1183
Wing Yip
Chinese but has a seperate Japanese section, as well as a decent selection of fresh produce. Prices are about as good as you’ll get in London, especially if buying in bulk. Haven’t been since they finished the remodelling of the Cricklewood store, and never been to the others. I usually visit every couple of months to stock up on basics in bulk, much easier to drive there (plenty of free parking) than to try and lug 5kg bags of rice back on the bus!
Wing Yip http://www.wingyip.com Chinese supermarket chain
395 Edgware Road Cricklewood London NW2 6LN Tel: 020 8450 0422 Fax: 020 8452 1478
544 Purley Way Croydon CR0 4NZ Tel: 020 8688 4880 Fax: 020 8688 8786
375 Nechells Park Road Nechells Birmingham B7 5NT Tel: 0121 327 6618 Fax: 0121 327 6612
Oldham Road Ancoats Manchester M4 5HU Tel: 0161 832 3215 Fax: 0161 833 2798
Hoo Hing Comments: “Same deal as Wing Yip. Only been to the Park Royal store, didn’t like it as much as Wing Yip so only been the once. Can’t remember how much Japanese stuff it actually had either but there was some!”
Hoo Hing
A406 North Circular Rd Near Hangar Lane Park Royal London NW10 7TN
Lockfield Avenue Off Mollison Avenue Brimsdown Enfield Middlesex EN3 7QE
Dorma Trading Park Staffa Road London E10 7QX
Bond Road Off Western Road Mitcham Surrey CR4 3EB
Hoo Hing Commercial Centre Freshwater Rd Chadwell Heath Romford Essex RM8 1RX
Others There is also Oriental City, which I’ve never been to and the many Chinese supermarkets in Chinatown which have some Japanese stuff and fresh produce. There used to be a lovely little Japanese shop called Unohana in Golders Green (opposite the tube station), it closed for renovation according to the sign in the window but now seems to have closed for good. It was quite expensive and didn’t have a huge range but did sell ‘sushi-quality’ fish and decent ready-made sushi and bento boxes. If it ever reopens I will post about it.
Alice | 25 January, 2008 - 17:29
Oriental City - Colindale (North London - UK)
Name: Natural Natural Address: 20 Station Parade, Uxbridge Road, Ealing Common W5 3LD 1 Goldhurst Terrace, Finchley Road NW6 3HX Website: http://www.natural-natural.co.uk/naturalnatural/indexe.html http://www.natural-natural.co.uk/naturalnatural/indexj.html
Not London
(Not formated yet!)
Korea Foods Mart Unit 5 Wyvern Industrial Estate, Beverley Way,New Malden, Surrey, KT3 4PH 020 8949 2238
Seoul Plaza 1 36 High Street, New Malden, Surrey, KT3 4HE 020 8949 4329
Seoul Plaza 2 126 Malden Road, New Malden, Surrey, KT3 6DD 020 8942 9552
Seoul Plaza 3 91-93 Mill Road, Cambridge, CB1 2AW 012 2330 3610
Birmingham
Besides Wing Yip (see above)
There is a small Korean grocery on Bristol Rd., near Selly Oak station, which also carries Chinese and Japanese groceries.
Day-In Supermarket Chinese supermarket
http://www.dayin.co.uk/1.html
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Japan Centre - Daiso
“They have a cooperation with Daiso, a 100yen store chain” (Maki)
I’ve just looked through the Daiso website
http://www.daiso-sangyo.co.jp/english/products/
That’s really interesting!
Just to add that there are still changes going on at the Japan Centre. I went on the weekend to the new grocery and kitchen/dining goods department and they had a big sale on where all the Daiso stuff was being sold for 1GBP.
They had also just opened a new sushi/sashimi/fish counter at the front of the shop, but this wasn’t part of Yoshino.
I can’t tackle stairs at the moment so I don’t know what happened to the space the grocery section used to share with Yoshino (it’s underneath where the Toku restaurant is, in the basement). But this is to advise that the Japan Centre expansion is still being fine tuned and it’s all in a state of flux.
Still, it’s now become another Japanese store with wheelchair access in London. Good news for those of us who are mobility impaired.
(Sorry I couldn’t ask the staff any questions - it was way too busy - the Daiso goods were flying out!)
!ramble alert!
Cute two tier bento boxes are currently on sale for 2.50GBP.
http://www.japancentre.com/?cmd=cat&cid=520
(They seemed nice and sturdy)
They currently have a promotion on Yamato sauces which don’t feature in their website, the sudachi ponzu is really, really good, much better than others I’ve tried - and no MSG!
http://www.yamato-soysauce-miso.com/product_ponzu.html
Apparantly a 3* Michelin restaurant in France uses this range. The He-She-Ho is also pretty amazing and at 3.45GBP not so different in price to the ¥525 it retails for in Japan
http://www.yamato-soysauce-miso.co.jp/okaimono/s_hishiho.html
Mount Fuji
I use http://www.mountfuji.co.uk/ who will ship to me here in Spain, but I tend to have it shipped within the UK and then pick it up on my next trip.
I don’t know if they have a physical shop at all, but here is their address:
UK Office
Mount Fuji International
Nr Shrewsbury
SY4 1AS
Tel: (01743) 741169
Fax: (01743) 741650
Japan Office
Mount Fuji International
Shizuoka
Japan
Downstairs at the Japan Centre
The basement has changed a lot recently (I’m finally able to manage the stairs)
Yoshino is still there
http://www.yoshino.net/delica/location.html
But the rest of the basement has been transformed into a tea and sake centre.
The range of teas is much more extensive than on the website, also tea utensils are stocked (from 1.50GBp upwards). There’s a small but enticing range of fresh wagashi. And lots of sake, shochu and other liquors to choose from.
Downstairs at "Old" Japan Centre
Indeed, downstairs where the old supermarket was is now a large selection of sake,shochu and tea. With a huge selection of organic green tea along with one organic sake also being sold. (There is more organic sake available on the market, yet Japan Centre need more encouragement to purchase it). Alas, more people need to learn more about sake and shochu so they can appreciate it is a great drink that combines well with both western and japanese foods.
Yoshino has recently changed it’s layout as well with another counter selling sushi (they need their own independent store I think) just to sell the sushi. Still got a large selection of great sushi at reasonable prices.
Japanese 'bakery' at Japan Centre - London
Last update on the Japan Centre.
A recently opened section is dedicated to Japanese Bakery items. These sell out quickly and pickings are slim in the evening.
You can now try classic delicacies such as curry ‘donuts’ and melon pan here.
I noticed good sized suribachis for just 4GBP yesterday. Perhaps the only item this store doesn’t have that I’d like them to stock is a pickling press.
(I still think the Rice Wine Shop has better prices for many things - for instance the rice flours for mitarashi dango are less than half the price at the RWS)
Unohana
I read there that Unohana in Golder’s Green had closed for good, but a new Japanese food shop was re-opened there, and it’s called Hello Kitchen.
Re: Unohana
Hello Kitchen is great. It has a good range of frozen and packaged foods as well as fresh sushi etc.
Ireland
It’s been a while since i’ve lived in Ireland, so I am not sure of the shop situation…but why put Ireland in with the UK? Leave it with the rest of Europe - there’s no need to group us together! I’ll come back and leave a more useful comment next time I’m home :)
oriental city
oriental city is getting shut down early june- signs are saying this in the centre now, and while the superarket is still reliably open ‘toko home’ the brilliant little japanese home shop has only been opening on wednesdays- apparently the lady who runs it is in ill health, and her grandson has been opening the store when he’s not at work (wednesday atm), and there are no plans to relocated toko home
Dublin - Ireland
Hi there, I don’t think there are any specialist Japanese-only grocery stores in Dublin Ireland, but the bigger “Asian” city-centre supermarkets which I would recommend as having some Japanese ingredients are: On the south-side: Asia Market, 18 Drury St., Dublin 2 (opening Hours: Mon-Sat 10:00-19:00). Also, just around the corner from Asia Market on 25 South Great Georges St, is a small Oriental Emporium while over on the north-side of the city, there is another bigger Oriental Emporium at 30 Abbey Upper Street. Furthermore, that part of Parnell Street between O’Connell Street and Gardiner Street (also on the north side, Dublin 1) has many smaller Chinese supermarkets which might be worth checking out if you are in that part of town but I don’t think they stock specifically Japanese products.
Anyway the Asia Market and the Abbey Street Emporium are the two I would frequent the most. They are great and have a large selection of frozen foods, canned goods, dried goods, kitchenware, fruit, vegetables etc!
Incidentally - if you are looking for Japanese food in Dublin other than the usual Yamamori/Aya/Yo Sushi/Wagamama joints, I hear that these two less well-known and out of the way Japanese eateries are good though I haven’t tried them yet: Akasaka Japanese Restaurant, 1 Castleknock Village Centre, Castleknock, Dublin 15 (northwest suburb, Tel: 00353 1 810 3564) and Michie Sushi, 11 Chelmsford Lane, Ranelagh, Dublin 6 (south of city centre, Tel: 00353 7 497 6438) which caters and does take-out sushi (no sit-in restaurant) is http://www.michiesushi.com/ (Tues-Sun 12:00 – 22:00)
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Happy Kitchen
Was just about to post the same as Alan above! Happy Kitchen seems to have replaced Unohana.
They’ve done a little bit of remodelling (the till is now at the front) but otherwise it seems pretty similar. The range of takeaway sushi and bento didn’t seem as extensive as before (no dumplings and they appear to have got rid of the microwave), but the maki I bought was pretty decent and sensibly priced - £1.70 for tuna hosomaki, I think £2.50 for salmon, avocado and cucumber uramaki.
Didn’t have much time to have a proper look around, I noticed they still sold “sushi-grade” salmon, seemed to have a decent selection of miso and tofu, and sold dashi granules in a jar (seemingly impossible to find in London although Center Point Food Store seems to have it now too - I hate the sachets because I never need a whole one). Next time I’m nearby I will have a proper look around and report back with more info.
These are the contact details for Unohana, the address I assume will remain the same, not sure about the phone number.
10 North End Road
Golders Green
London
NW11 7PH
Tel. 020-8201-8833
Okinami
Hi,
Just wanted to alert you to Okinami - it’s in my hometown of Brighton, and the shop has been round a while. They just opened a restaurant on New Road (opposite the Royal Pavilion) and now have an online shop too.
http://www.okinami.com/shophome.htm
Free delivery with orders over £50 !
Miura japanese food
I found this store called Miura Japanese foods, and it sells Japanese food, and it’s in Kingston-upon-Thames, thats quite near the Outskirts of London.
I haven’t gone yet, but I’ll go tomorrow and comment on it when I can :) address is
KT2 7AF Coombe Road Kingston-upon-Thames, they don’t have a website, so thats all I can say for now :)
I wonder what this does?
Hope I helped
Dan
Sheffield - Fresh Asia
This is the best “asian” supermarket I’ve come across in Sheffield - many Korean and quite a few Japanese things. You can ask these guys to order items you need.
497 Glossop Rd
Sheffield,
S10 2QE
0114 263 8080
Google map location
For the green fingered enthusiast
Okay so not a food supplier and I dont know if they have been mentioned before but Nickys nursery online sell 3 different types of shiso seeds and daikon radish seeds and loads of other things I have never even heard of! It might be of interest to people who want really fresh ingrediants, like home grown fresh!! They are based in kent and they ship worlwide for a very modest price.
http://www.nickys-nursery.co.uk/seeds/pages/altsal1.htm
Minami Kitchoan
Not so much a Japanese supermarket as such, but Minami Kitchoan sell Japanese sweets (a traditional Japanese sweet shop/store as such).
* Address:
44 Piccadilly, London, W1J
* Phone: +44 20 7437 3135
* Fax: +44 20 7437 3191
* Web: http://www.kitchoan.com/
* Nearest Station: Piccadilly Circus
* Neighbourhood: Soho/West End
Online Chinese Supermarket
This Chinese supermarket is pretty good for when you want to get ingredients for lots of cuisines (including Japanese!) all at the same time:
http://www.waiyeehong.com/
They also have a store in Bristol:
Wai Yee Hong
Eastgate Oriental City,
Eastgate Road,
Eastville,
Bristol, BS5 6XX
Tel: 0845 873 3388
Fax: 0845 872 2288
Re: Japanese grocery stores in the UK and Ireland
there is also atari-ya...havent actually been in a store, but i keep seeing it on the bus when i'm heading up to north finchley from east finchley...they also have a branch in temple fortune...
http://www.atariya.co.uk/
ORIENTAL MART
I use this online shop all the time to get Korean kimchi and other wonderful things! Noodles Noodles Noodles and all sorts of Korean and Japanese goodies, some Chinese and a bit of Vietnamese, Thai, Malaysian and Phillipines too.
They have all sorts of teas and snacks and interesting items!
The service is always great and fast and always friendly.
I think the shop is in Nottingham.
http://www.orientalmart.co.uk
Re: Oriental City
I would just like to say that Oriental City is definitely closed now and I'm not sure where shops have located too. I'm incredibly sad that it's been closed especially as I went there very often.
Also with Wing Yip [in London] you might need to know other names for products and some are very expensive.
Re: Japanese grocery stores in the UK and Ireland
Note about Japan Centre: It seems that they are moving to Regent Street shortly! I will update this page soon including that info when they do move.
Re: Japanese grocery stores in the UK and Ireland
Oriental City are CLOSED and this listing needs to be updated.
Also, Hoo Hing are primarily a Chinese shop and their selection of Japanese ingredients is actually quite poor other than ramen. However, if you want 'generic' ingredients like rice or some sauces, it will suffice. You're better off with places like Japan Centre. I've never been to Wing Yip, so I couldn't tell you how it compares with the stock of Japanese goods.
Re: Japanese grocery stores in the UK and Ireland
A Hidden gem that is used primarily by the Japanese community here in London is TK Trading just off the A40 in west London. It has a wide selecton of foods, small amount of fresh food and a lot of packaged and frozen. Staff are helpful and polite.
: TK Trading
Unit7 The Chase Centre, Chase Road,Park Royal, London NW10 6QD
the left side entrance is for Retail (up the stairs)
Also in West London is Atariya at Station Parade in West Acton - I hear that their Sashimi is extremely good!
Re: Japanese grocery stores in the UK and Ireland
Athough Chinese supermarkets, they will sell Japanese goods too. They are two Supermarkets in Liverpool.
One is W.H. Lung
W H LUNG BUILDING
GREAT HOWARD STREET
LIVERPOOL
L5 9TZ
Another is Chung Wah (I haven't been here but it looks pretty large)
8A Hardy Street,
Liverpool,
Merseyside
L1 5EF
0151 709 2637
Re: Japanese grocery stores in the UK and Ireland
There are 2 asian foodstores in Belfast which I have visited and both stock a selection of Japanese items, they may have more but I only recognise some things!
Asia Supermarket
189, Ormeau Rd,
Belfast,
County Antrim
BT7 1SQ
028 9032 6396
Lee Foods Supermarkets
34, Charlotte St,
Belfast,
County Antrim
BT7 1BT
Tel: 028 9024 8548
There's another one too in Belfast, but I haven't been to it yet so can't vouch for it:
Camseng International Food Distributors
1-25, Lower Windsor Avenue,
Belfast,
County Antrim
BT9 7DW
Tel: 028 9066 9200
Re: Japanese grocery stores in the UK and Ireland
IMPORTERS, RETAILERS & WHOLESALERS OF JAPANESE FOOD & DRINK.
Europe’s leading supplier of Japanese Food & Drink.
1968 - opened 1st Japanese restaurant in UK
1968-74 opened chain of restaurants/retail outlet
1974 established as an Importer & Wholesaler of Japanese Food – 1st in the UK
Portfolio contains over 2,500 products, major supplier to all Japanese restaurants & retail shops.
OWN BRAND NAME 'YUTAKA' which can be found in Tesco & other Japanese retail shops
located at Millmarsh lane, Enfield EN3 7QJ
Re: Japanese grocery stores in the UK and Ireland
The Company is called 'TAZAKI FOODS LIMITED'
Address- Unit 4 Delta Park Industrial Estate, Mill Marsh Lane, Enfield EN3 7QJ
Telephone number- 020 8344 3000/ 020 8344 3001/ 020 8344 3002.
Guaranteed Best Price & Exceptional Service Levels with a wide choice or products.
DO All your shopping from one place!
Tazaki Foods - Online Shop
Tazaki Foods Ltd/Online Shop
www.tazakifoods.com
This online shop has the widest range of Japanese sake and shochu probably in Europe! Basic food ingredients are also available there. Delivery within the UK.
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