Owner is a very very rude man, avoid this shop…read more He will tell you he has the item and you waste your time going there and he doesn't have AND doesn't care. I called to ask a question and he was rude and then hung up the phone. Appalling service. Don't give this man any money - he doesn't deserve customers! Will write bad reviews everywhere. I will add pictures next time I am nearby this shop

This Polski Sklep (Polish Shop) is my to-go place for all things considered pork. Having grown up…read morein Germany, I need my pork sausages and my cold cuts made from pork. Alas, most British butchers or supermarkets only offer the usual watered-down hams, which have lost all of the interesting flavours. Here at Poziomka you can find literally dozens of different kinds of hams, sausages and other meaty treats. But not only that, this is a clean and well-sorted paradise for all things considered Eastern European: buttermilk, pickles, cabbage rolls and various kinds of sweets that you wouldn't find at your typical Tesco. I love coming here and just browsing through the shelves and finding things that I had grown up with, but had somehow forgotten about. (Polish and German share quite a bit of food heritage.)

Once in a while I have a craving for Greek Salad...and then I always come here, as they have all…read morethe ingredients right here and there: tomatoes, bell peppers, cucumber, red onions, fresh olives, feta cheese, lemons, etc. Furthermore, you can get all kind of "Mediterranean" products here, as well as different cured meats.

Nice local store with a great range of vegetables in good price. Recommended for every N19 :)read more

It was great! I stopped by to pick up some ingredients because I was cooking for a dinner party at…read moremy friend's place. I'm Singaporean living in the US, I was visiting London and wanted to make some signature Singaporean dishes. I even picked up a pandan cake that was very much like how it's made back home! They had pretty much all the ingredients I needed and I was very happy while walking around there looking at everything they had to offer. Also the roasted duck and BBQ pork in the restaurant section looked very good but I haven't tried it. Very clean supermarket with a vast selection of Asian ingredients. Enjoyed the experience. I will be back!

Wing Yip is the extensive Chinese supermarket. Stock up on everything from froZen dimsum to fresh…read morefish and meat. As it caters to all the restaurants in the area goods also come in wholesale quantities. Plenty of parking. If you want to eat there's a main restaurant. Go in by the exterior entrance and tell the staff how many you are - turnaround is swift as it's something like a 200 cover place. Menu is extensive, food is great. There's also a cafe between this and the supermarket, more limited menu but just as good.

This store is new to Finchley Central. I love coming her for tofu and lamenting the lack of cold…read morebento boxes for vegetarians. This place will overcharge you for a soy shake but the staff is so nice in here and the store so welcoming and chock full of Oriental Products, I don't care. If you like Oriental products, you'll love this store.

Extremely well stocked Chinese supermarket that has just about everything you need. Spotlessly…read moreclean and well maintained. Very high standard of hygiene is apparent. Prices are remarkably good, but not all items are VAT free.!! Fabulous selection of frozen/dried fish, so many species. Great place to shop for Eastern food. Parking is very good locally.

Very Nearly deserving of 5 stars, but i dont want to go too crazy! This place is though a really…read moregood place to pick up your chinese foodstuffs, with a massive selection on the high American looking Aisles. You could say they have wall to (Great) wall of food, and I would say don't be a (Tiannamen) square, and get yourself down there, but I would never use such bad puns! I bought a big old selection of dried chillis for a pound, and they will last me probably for half a year (and I use a lot) so that's a bargain. I also got a jar of minced ginger, to use in my stirfries and I bought a bottle of squid sauce to go splash into my stir fries too, for that authentic touch. On top of what I got though, there is so much good and authentic produce here, from huge sacks of rice for around £16, to cans of Grass Jelly drink and juicy, plump HUOGE Tiger prawns. Cheap, authentic and nicely laid out.

Wow, I am definitely impressed by the variety of Chinese (and a bit of Korean and Japanese too)…read morefood available at this little store. I always go in to the city to buy my Asian groceries in Chinatown, but now that I've discovered this place, I can do a lot of my shopping here. Plus, it's aimed at a Chinese clientele (all the labelling is in Chinese although there are English translations) so the prices are very reasonable. This place is great for all kinds of Chinese noodles, tofu, produce, dried and canned goods, snacks and drinks. Only thing you need to be aware of is it's cash only, but there's a cashpoint outside the Tesco just a half-minute walk east on Seven Sisters.

Great selection of Asian (mostly Chinese, but I saw Korean, Japanese and Thai) sauces, preserved…read moreitems, candies, canned goods, a small section of fresh veg and freezer coolers of seafood, meats and ready to eats. They have even a selection of fresh seafood on offer at cheaper prices than the Holloway Nags Head fishery a few storefronts down - eel, fish, live lobster, clams, and mussels. This is my new go-to place for korean basics (kimchi, gochujang, ddok, etc), hot pot/shabu shabu needs, and tastes of my childhood. Too bad it's cash only - but just be prepared for that.

This local store not only rips you off by trying to charge you on average a 70% more than anywhere…read moreelse in the local area for some of life's essentials but they are also extremely rude, unhelpful and lack any kind of basic customer service. I was in the store on one occasion where I witnessed them tell the guy in Front of me that the price was even higher than there label noted because on the can it said 50% extra free by the manufacture. Unbelievable. This place has been praying on the locals and ripping them off for years. Go out of your way not to use them. Unless that is you like being treated like crap and ripped off at the same time.

I don't agree with the previous review. The author ignores the very wide range of foods and drinks…read morethat it stocks, which is unusual in the area. And I have never found the staff, rude, unhelpful or discourteous. I have patronised them for about 3 years. it's not the cheapest store but the prices are regular.

As a hungarian I am a regular customer here. Helpful, kind and good humoured staff. Quality…read moreproducts although expensive. Go and try "Turo Rudi" (chocolate) and "somloi galuska" (dessert)

The bread, cakes and pastries of Hungary don't get enough press. The French have rather cornered…read morethe market, and we all tend to forget about the equally established coffee and cake culture of Austria and Hungary. However, after you've had a strudel slice of poppy-seed and morello cherry Meggyes-Mákos Rétes, or a slice of seven-layered, hard caramel-topped Dobos Torta, you'll probably start remembering it. Danube, Harringay's Hungarian bakery opened a few years ago now. A brave move, given the number of Greek and Turkish bakeries already on that stretch of Grand Parade, including a formidable rival in the form of Yasar Halim's excellent Turkish bakery. However, it looks like Danube has carved out a niche for itself supplying local shops with bread, so I hope that it survives. There always seem to be Hungarians popping in for bread when I go, so fingers crossed. In the actual shopfront, they sell a wide selection of Hungarian breads made from various mixes of grains, potato bread (burgonyás kenyér), rolls and baguettes. They also have a good selection of Hungarian cakes and pastries, and sweetened and enriched breads, including chocolate/vanilla plaits. Fellow Hungarophiles will be delighted that the labels are bilingual, so if you want to try out ordering egy szelet Esterházy tortát, legyen szíves!, you can get the staff to laugh at your awful accent with ease. At least, that's what always happens to me. Oh, they also sell pretty decent coffee.

In my endless quest to be cooler than all you people I shunned the food stalls of Sunday UpMarket…read morewith their mobs of people wearing ironic large sunglasses, I turned my nose up at the hog roasts at Shoreditch cliches 93ft East and the Truman Brewery, and I certainly wasn't going to join the More4-loving set lunching away at shiny chain restaurants in what used to be wonderful Spitalfields. No, I decided I'd abandon the Time-Out guided Sunday masses and wonder the wrong way down Brick Lane in search of authentic options. And because of that my lunch for £2.40 consisted of two of the best spinach samosas I've ever had and two hearty but dry fish cakes. It was window placement of these savoury cakes, samosas and pakoras that magnetised me into Ambala. The rest of the shop was largely devoid of the Bangla sweets they profess, but do I look like I'm bothered? It was lunch time, I wanted something salty, satisfying and solid value and I found it in spades. Next time you do the sunday brick lane thing, give Ambala a look. Don't just be another sheep having free range tofu sausage crepes with the other Nathan Barleys.

I work in the City with a team from India and they have established a custom of zipping out to…read moreAmbala on a Friday afternoon and returning with a huge box of hot samosas. When I find out who came up with the idea I shall demand that they are promoted and given some sort of employee of the decade award. Ambala sell a vast range of Indian/Pakistani savoury snacks and sweets. Both their lamb and vegetarian samosas are fantastic, their pakora is great and so is more or less everything else they sell. If you work near this part of London you absolutely have to go in here and buy enough of their delicacies to fill a wheelbarrow, push it straight back to your office and bask in the warm adulation of your co-workers as they scarf hot eastern yumminess. Unfortunately they aren't open early otherwise I would pick up breakfast here.

Fantastic Jamaican and Caribbean shop, the real foods you cannot get in the UK supermarkets.read more