This was the go to market for my friends and I while in Paris. Located on the cobblestone…read moreneighborhood streets of Champs-Élysées, it doesn't open until about 10 in the morning but stays open 'til about 10 at night. G20 has a good selection of cheeses if you need to pick some up as well as a decent liquor selection including a great variety of cheap wines under 5 euros! Also at the market are all toiletries, many groceries and some friendly workers. It isn't the cleanest, but it gets the job done!

So I'm walking towards the Tang Freres I usually go to, but I'm coming from a different route…read morebecause now I live in the 2nd, not the 17th. Turns out that there's another Tang Freres supermarket. How is this one different. Unlike the one just a few blocks away, this one consciously mixes French groceries and ingredients side-by-side with the Asian ones. This is an attempt on the owners' part to nab French shoppers who want to convenience shop and not go to two different markets (as most of us have to :-). I think, even with the French groceries added, it's about the same size as the one on Ivry, and perhaps, item for item, it has a bit less. So if you want the serious "Asian only" version - go to the other one.

I've tried a fair few exotic shops in Paris, and this one is far and away my favorite. The place is…read morevast. I spend ages, just absorbing all the new products I've never seen before. Their fresh produce is truly exotic, coming in a wide array of unseen shapes and colors. The prices are fantastic. I once bought a massive slab of pumpkin for 50cents. If you're frugal and not lazy, you should do all your weekly produce shopping here. You'll save heaps, and eat interestingly.