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2710 Nicollet Ave. S. Minneapolis, MN 55408

612-872-8606

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BEST ASIAN GROCERY
Award Winner 2007

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2007 | BEST ASIAN GROCERY

All hail the changing face of the Twin Cities--a wonderful new world where we can get tamarind as easily as we can get walleye. With twin stores on each side of the river, Shuang Hur has everything we've come to count on. Duck eggs, check. Pre-packaged hog's head, check. And unlike some namby-pamby grocers, Shuang Hur has the eggs to sell live lobsters out of a tank in back. If that weren't enough of a show of force to the PC crowd, right next to the lobsters is a big cardboard box full... More »
2006 | BEST ASIAN GROCERY

Sometimes we come here just to listen to the confluence of languages--Vietnamese, Hmong, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese. Sometimes it's for the smells--overripe bananas, musty dried shrimp, fresh meat, Lysol. The variety of smells and sounds reminds us that there's a whole world worth exploring beyond the conventional bright and efficient grocery chains. Enter Shuang Hur, where you'll find produce such as pale mounds of bitter melon, dark bundles of long beans, and... More »
2005 | BEST ASIAN GROCERY

It always happens: We stop in to Shuang Hur for a jar of curry paste or a bottle of fish sauce, and we leave $30 lighter but toting the makings for any number of quasi-made-up meals. Because, you see, there is not one kind of curry paste, or even one discrete display, but an aisle of tins and tubs to be inspected. An aisle that dead-ends at a wall of fish tanks playing hospice to all manner of live seafood, adjoining an aisle crammed with sticky-rice steamers and green tea flavored with... More »
2003 | BEST ASIAN GROCERY

Need tripe or pork ears, bitter melon or long beans Sometimes we come here just to watch the lobsters and crabs and fish in their tanks and listen to snatches of Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, and Spanish. This place is as enormous as it is exotic. It's packed to the ceiling with everything from 50-pound bags of rice and lentils and dried shrimp to rows of gnarled black radishes, odd mushrooms, and twisted squash. If you need help deciphering a recipe or identifying an ingredient, go see... More »