Loon Fung looks large from the outside and it does stock a lot of Chinese foodstuffs. However, somehow, I still find more that I want to buy from Loon Moon across the road. However, Loon Fung does have a butcher, which is unique for Chinatown supermarkets. Look for good prices on pork belly, a favourite for Chinese cooks long before it became fashionable in trendy restaurants. Also worth a browse to see cuts that you won't find in Tesco - pigs' trotters and pigs' ears! I also think Loon Fung is the best Chinatown supermarket to buy longans, a round fruit with brown skin. For a mental picture, think of a lychee and shrink it about half. Now, get a mental taste of lychee, sweeten and intensify the flavour, make a little more perfumed and juicy and that's the taste of longan. Wonderful!! If you see them, get some to try and you won't regret it. read more

You'd do well do drop in for your canned and dry goods, but pass on the produce. On the upside, I was able to ask for the specific sauce I was looking for in Mandarin and get an answer (well, really it was more of a directional wave) back. Unfortunately, the cashiers were possibly the slowest ones I've ever encountered in a Chinese grocery. I realise that's not saying a whole lot, considering the robotic speed I've seen Chinese cashiers bag goods elsewhere, but still... Oh, and a giant bag of wooden chopsticks for just ~£1.50? Now -that's- a bargain I can buy into. read more

What a wonderful meal. When I close my eyes I feel like I'm in Vancouver having a great meal. Prior to entering the restaurant they have have a full menu posted outside along with someone to greet you. FYI: they serve dim sum ALL DAY! That was the selling point for me. The staff is so sweet and helpful. Any questions with the menu they're more than happy to make suggestions or explain the dishes. One of our dishes took longer to come out and the manager Be (that's his name), came over to apologize. This restaurant has cloth napkins and the waitress will place it on your lap. When the rice arrived, the waiter serves the first bowl. We ordered the standards: BBQ pork fried rice, squid, shredded spicy beef, deep fried garlic/spicy broccoli and sweet and sour pork. All of the dishes, all of them were so freakin' good! From start to finish all I could do is smile. It was a fantastic meal. Love it I'm hoping I can sneak in another visit before I go home. 5 stars all the way!!! read more

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I have learned that if you want to cook authentic Chinese or Thai dishes you cannot pick up your ingredients from just any old grocery store. For lemon grass stalks and fresh galangal, you have to go to a specialist. Long Fung Supermarket is a very large grocery store in Chinatown and it has everything you need. The busiest day is Sunday and if you pop in mid to late afternoon be prepared to wait in a long line. The store isn't organized very well, that's the down side. On my first visit I found myself walking around searching for what I need. The up side is, just about every herb or spice I needed they carried. There are two sides of the store, so be prepared to look on sides, depending on what you want. The easiest things to find are vegetables because they are in the front of the store. The hardest thing to find, for me, was coconut milk, it was in the second half of the store and I only found it after walking around searching for about 10 minutes. Despite these setbacks, you'll find what you need, just not very easily. read more

Loon Fung - International Grocery Near Me - London, XGL

Loon Fung Supermarket is my favourite super market shop in Chinatown. It is a decent sized shop which has a wide range of food which is piled fairly high. Additionally, they have crockery so if you need bowls, chopsticks, rice wine jugs etc. it is a good place to go. It also sells more expensive items that I imagine would make good gifts for people interested in Chinese food. Outside they have a good range of fresh fruits and vegetables including, according to season, dragon fruit, lychees, rambutan, Chinese pears etc. Loon Fung Supermarket is a convenient place to pick up all your Chinese cooking essentials. read more

Loon Fung - International Grocery Near Me - London, XGL

When I come to China Town I always visit Loon Fung Supermarket. You can find anything here to do with Chinese cooking. I always get my Ozeki Dry Sake here as it is cheaper than other local stores. I usually look up a couple of Chinese recipes to try at home which has ingredients I am not that familiar with but would like to try and take my list to Loon Fung. They always have what I need! You can really explore Chinese food here as well as crockery, teapots and so on. The isles are abit tight though and it is usually very busy so you can get pushed about abit. Nether mind I can take it , but it is not good for prams or wheelchairs. read more

Loon Fung - International Grocery Near Me - London, XGL

I would consider myself a pretty good cook, in fact I worked as a chef for a few years so I would like to think I know my way around a kitchen. All this self belief is however, immediately scrapped when I arrive at the Loon Fung. Presented with ingredients I've never seen before in my life, vegetables that look like fossils or bones and spices that would blow your head off, I feel like I'm starting from cooking scratch. To counter this I've started to follow my lead from the oldest Chinese woman that I can find in the store. I copy her as she breaks of chunks of ginger to just the size she wants and smells the lemongrass to make sure it's fresh. I examine the frozen dim sum as though I too can read the Chinese script across the box and I place it in my basket with false confidence. While some of you make be reading this and thinking that I sound absolutely mental, I would really encourage you to take up this adventure. I've bought things from the Loon Fung that I've never bought before in my life and after a bit of Google fun cooked up a few pretty tasty recipes. Ok, the dried fish flakes made me want to wretch but barring this I've been very successful. The best thing about this shop too is how cheap everything is. No matter how much food I throw in my basket, it seems to be physically impossible for me to break the £10 mark. Loon Fung is a great shop. If you are planning a Chinese feast I would definitely recommend it for some of the more hard to find ingredients. Or, if like me, you fancy spying on old women going about their day to day business the Loon Fung also very fun! read more

This place is much bigger than it seems from the shopfront. I love the huge selection of dim sum. However there were a few gaps as my usual siu mai was missing. But I was pacified when I found some Korean bulgogi sauce. There is also a small Thai and Japanese range in store with numerous packet mixes. So you can recreate your favourite takeaways from the comfort of your home. Ideal when you are economising but you don't want to miss out on your favourite Asian dishes. The store also sells different cuts of meat like flank and pork in a osso bucco style. This would only appeal to experienced cooks. Oh I looked in the cabinets and saw frozen pig uteri which does not seem very tempting! The down side is that the Q's can be over 20 in a line.... Not good at all. read more

Not sure really whether to give the place four or five stars. It isn't as big as some of the Chinese supermarkets outside of Chinatown but Loon Fung is still a decent size. As someone else has said, it does have its own butcher, which is a definite plus. Also, I've always found the fresh fruit and vegetable section fairly extensive. However, some of the fresh produce can be found cheaper if you check out the real back streets of Chinatown. Definitely a supermarket you should visit when going to Chinatown, this place always gives me a warm feeling and sort of embodies Chinatown for me. I guess this is because it's always the first supermarket I go into after I get off the tube. I also like the smell inside. Is that weird? read more

This is my go-to place in Chinatown for a good variety of Asian grocery staples. They have the largest produce and meat section of the Chinese grocery stores. They have Asian vegetables like choi sum and bok choi though these are usually sold in large packets. The meats include pork belly, chicken wings, and pig's ears. They also have a sizeable frozen food selection replete with samosas, fuzhou fish balls (fish balls with meat inside!), and industrial-sized boxes of dim sum appetizers that have been on sale almost every week I go there (usually some fried spring rolls and other things). I like to get the fresh rice noodles with spring onion and dried shrimp here. They are also the only grocery in the area to sell a 30 pack of eggs (we like lots of egg white omelets in our home). The eggs however are sometimes pretty dirty so please check before you buy. They are slightly cheaper and cleaner at ASDA but if you can't make it there, this is your place. Overall good selection and prices. I know I'll always be back for the rice noodles. read more

Probably best (in Chinatown) for veggies. It's also the most modern/sparkling clean. They do have a butchery which seems to have a good amount of business and staff bring out seafood as well. read more

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I like Loon Fung... It's not the most amazing grocery store in the world, or even the most amazing Chinese grocery store in the world. But it's alright. It's convenient; this is your place if you want to pick up a variety of Asian ingredients, from sauces to snacks to frozen goods. They even have a small produce section with things like durian and Asian pears that you don't see in your average Sainsbury's. Loon Fung also benefits from having a sister store right across the street; if you ever need something not in stock, just head on over-- or even ask the staff and they'll grab you extra tofu or whatever. I often check prices at both New Loon and Loon Fung, just to make sure I'm getting the best deal- sometimes they have different things on offer. New Loon seems to have a greater variety of products, but I like the original's setup best. As far as pricing goes, though, there are better deals elsewhere in Chinatown; it just takes a little more digging and patience. The staff I've encountered are Mandarin-speaking so if you don't know the English name for what you're looking for, go ahead and switch languages. read more

The Skinny: Very Chinese indeed but it's like going through a maze of aisles because of the cramped space. Well, that's not a problem but the prices are a little iffy but there's only two big supermarkets in Chinatown. Sad... The Fat: Not like you can go somewhere else to buy Chinese produce and goods. The place is decent and they all speak English (Actually, most of them) read more

Sometimes I get sick of sterile supermarkets and just want to get a whiff of a couple of rotting durian fruits. I come to Loon Fung and instantly I am sated for a few months. As far as Asian markets go, this one is pretty good. They have everything but like many of its neighbors in the immediate vicinity, it's often too crowded to shop there. Today I nearly had a panic attack and had to leave immediately. That said, they've got Thai, Japanese and Korean ingredients (in addition to Chinese), so I'm usually happy. read more

I went in this supermarket last time I was in Chinatown, and was quite taken-aback by how good it was. Pretty much any Asian foodstuffs that you are missing and would like to find, is here! Anyway, the main shout out I want to do today, is for those of us craving Root Beer. I found A&W Root Beer at Loon Fung for 65p! And it is the Singapore version, so it in fact has sugar rather than corn syrup, and therefore is even better than usual! I cannot express how ecstatic I am about it! Go get yours now (I'm going back for a grate...) read more

I cased out each and every grocery market in Chinatown and came to the conclusion that Loon Fung's the most well-stocked. While the other markets stock just about everything the same, even the veggies, they do not have a butcher on premise: this for me, as a Chinese interested in cooking authentic Chinese cuisine (where the cuts of meat are different to Western), is the tipping point. Unless you're busting a hump all the way up to Oriental City up in Colindale (which I heard is now RIP), Loon Fung is the one-stop shop to go for Chinese grocery staples. read more

Loon Fung is one of the supermarkets found in Chinatown and, having visited three seperate ones I believe this one is the best. The chinese diet is so blatently different from ours, this much is obvious once you walk in.. everything is either unfamiliar or familiar but unusual. The supermarket has an extensive cold store, with freezers and fridges lining the walls as soon as you walk in (through turnstiles, to force a one way system. The shop aisles are so thin that this is a necessity). Being flanked on either side by meat however doesn't make for a delectable odour so ready yourself for this. Once you move through the cold section you reach an eye-watering colour display of excellent chinese cuisine. In packets, tins, jars, anything. I personally have a mighty sweet tooth and I was drawn towards a small fridge that contained all manner of sugary delights. I ended up purchasing this amazing little sweet called Mochi, a ball of glutinous rice with a delicious type of filling in the middle. My girlfriend cooks these for me in a soup but cold, from a fridge, is just an entirely different proposition. You need to eat this kind of thing. Chinatown is a very interesting little pocket of London and this Supermarket is an excellent portal into the day to day groceries that Chinese people indulge in. Most of the food is so very good as well, so don't knock ANYTHING until you try it! Because some of the meat in the deli includes pig heart, pig ear... The only person I've ever known to eat pig ear is my dog! But hey, it does taste damn good, like jerky... read more

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I needed some Chinese ingredients to make Dim Sum, and a few of my friends directed me here, so I came in to get them. Unfortunately, they either didn't have all the ingredients I needed, or it was hard to find them, because I did have to go to a nearby store for the rest. All of the stuff I was looking for was canned/jarred/bottled, so I headed to the back to find them. Loon Fung is like a claustrophobic's nightmare. The aisles are TINY and barely enough space for two people to get through. Perhaps I should have made a lunch break trip instead of going after work, but the amount of people in there really started to freak me out. Perhaps that's why I didn't find the red bean paste I needed and ended up making a bee-line to the cash registers. I don't know. The queue was also insane. INSANE. But after checking out the other shops in the area, Loon Fung had a LOT of ingredients and things to buy. So that's always a bonus. Except it does make it hard to find things too. I'm sure I'll have to come back sometime when I'm looking for those specialty ingredients. I'm sure I'll freak out and almost die like the first time I came. But I'm sure it will be worth it. Right? read more

Pretty quick serving, several tills, good selection of fruits (rambutan, darian, starfruit, dragon fruit, etc.). Good prices but not too large selection of confectioneries. read more

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Loon Fung and Loon Moon (the supermarket opposite of this one) are probably the largest Oriental supermarkets in Chinatown. I say Oriental because they stock everything from Indian spices to Malaysian/Singaporean/Thai cooking pastes. Don't forget instant/packet noodles as well like Maggi and Indomee. But the main reason I go to Loon Fung is for their Chinese vegetables and Thai long grain rice, both of which aren't available at most Western supermarkets. A 10kg bag of Thai long grain rice costs about 14 pounds. There's also frozen food stuff, e.g. prawns. Be careful about coming at peak hours (e.g. 4pm) as it can get very, very congested, with queues stretching all the way back into the shopping area. read more

The go to place in Chinatown for Asian supplies, with specialist sections for Thai, Korean and Japanese food. Personally I prefer smaller family-run Asian corner stores. Who am I kidding about the range of exotic ingredients I need? However, when I am about Chinatown it gives me a lot of pleasure walking around the two levels of the store and peering at the various exotic foodstuffs and making the occasional purchase. Recommended for any with serious Asian cooking needs. read more

I prefer Loon Fung to New Loon Moon (across the street) even though they offer the same selection because 1. The layout's better, everything's on one floor, 2. It's cheaper! Frozen dumplings are £2.99 instead of £3.25, and their frozen beef slices is £4.15 versus £4.65 (comparing identical brands of course). 50p more per item is quite a lot! read more

Definitely the cheapest place to go if you need to buy eggs. They sell eggs here 10 for .95 pence!! Crazy. The lines get so ridiculous but they go fast. You also have to have a certain amount to be able to pay with credit card and this one time I went I was short 50 pence and the lady just gave me the extra apple for free. So nice! They have a wide variety of everything here read more

On weekends this place can be a quite a nightmare. It's a great place for your everyday Asian produce, dried goods, snacks, condiments and other animal parts otherwise not offered by your local Tesco. read more

One of the chinese grocery stores in chinatown. I didnt really shop here but moreso was looking for one thing and got it and left. I can say though the employees are very nice and helpful when I asked them for one thing.....THEY HAVE MANGOSTEENS! So if you are looking for asian fruits they have them lol. Their prices aren't bad also. read more

Loon Fung - We found mangosteen! - International Grocery Near Me - London, XGL

An absolute heaven for Asian food lovers. Always fresh meat and fish, as well as salted and dried stock. A well stocked dept for utensils and many other items for the otiental kitchen. Fresh vegetables are of top quality and there are many unusual tastes catered for. The smell gets you the moment you walk through the door. Go there and be overwhelmed!!! read more

Loon Fung is famous for bring THE supermarket for Chinatown. It sells everything from frozen Dim Sum to exotic vegetables/fruit - any Chinese food you could possibly want. Its can become an endurance test at peak times, when its insufferably hectic - but authentically Chinese, of course! There are some smaller supermarkets located on the back streets of Chinatown if you can find them. Otherwise this is the destination Chinese supermarket read more

Its good if you need to get your basic asian ingrediants...but its still quite pricey. I guess I'll never get used to the upcharge of EVERYTHING here... read more

Good Asian supermarket where I happily come back. Maybe a bit smaller than neighbour New Loon moon, but there I easily find some of my favourites. They have good basic ingredients for Chinese cooking at reasonable prices. I also visited See woo on the street behind recently and Loon fung seemed a bit cheaper. Only thing: the smell, coming from the meat and fish counter, that is not always welcoming...! read more

Wide range of Chinese products. Amazing that they should have "You Le Mei". I wish they had Master Kong instant noodles.

Egg Fried Nice You can beat an egg, but you can't beat authentic, and this is THE place for authentic oriental foodstuffs. Worth peking through the door. read more

Got any Pot Noodles? If you want to cook that special someone (or your flatmates) a great meal. Come to the Loon Fung. You will be able to get everything from crockery to soy sauce, from unknown herbs to chinese beer. Make the night authentic and bypass the Uncle Ben's rice, you will find everything that you need here. read more

For years, Loon Fung was always my go-to place for a Chinatown grocery shop. Like a lot of reviewers have mentioned, it has a massive stock of almost everything you can imagine in Oriental foods, including snacks, sauces, fresh veges, and the butchers. However, they've re-organised some of the rooms/aisles and what was always a labrynthian effort to track down your shopping list of items for the most experienced LF-shopper has now become herculean indeed. While shopping for this year's Chinese New Year eve feast, I was disappointed to find that they did not have a few key items I wanted (no oxtail! no jellyfish!) so it was panic stations. (and neither did New Loon Moon). I was just lucky that I remembered the local Wing Tai Oriental Store in Camberwell nearby when I got home. On the whole, it is where you would go to get most of your items, particularly if Soho isn't inconvenient for you. It isn't a cheap bill tho'. But it's always an experience to shop in Chinatown and salivate outside the windows of the Chinese restaurants, with all their hanging food offerings. read more

As a Chinese living in London, I know that oriental food can be hard to find, if not ridiculously expensive. Tofu, for instance, would cost an exorbitant £3 for a small portion at my local oriental food store in Hammersmith (in Asia, tofu is a poor man's food). Loon Fung Supermarket in Chinatown offers competitively priced products ranging from all sorts of tofu, sauces, and snacks, to carbohydrates, fruits, and veg. There are a few other large supermarkets around, so if you have the time, do some research. If not, you can be assured that Loon Fung prices are pretty good, if not the best. If you are a compulsive Pocky (popular Japanese biscuit sticks covered in chocolate) snacker like me, get your Pocky fix here, and avoid the bright, colourful oriental snack shops in the vicinity who sometimes charge more than double for the same thing. read more

I just came back from the Loon Fung in Chinatown and I had the most awful experience with the butcher behind the meat counter name "Andy". He completely ignored me when I was standing there for a good five minutes and proceeded to serve everyone else ahead. After the fourth person I spoke out...but he insist the lady who had only just arrived to the counter was there before I was when it was completely not true. Even then, he just competely avoided taking my order. It had to take another customer to direct his attention before he served me. I have been a loyal customer and this is unacceptable behavior. I don't think this should undo the better service all the other times I've been to the store but from now on I will never buy anything as long as Andy is behind the counter. read more