P&P Grocery

Love their fresh cheap tofu and Thai ingredients. Sad to see my favorite corner store closing it’s doors

Best assortment of Thai groceries I’ve found here. It’s small, but clean, inexpensive and friendly.
Sadly, the owner says they are CLOSING soon b/​c the building is undergoing development, so go now and load up on your fav’s while you can!

I stumbled upon this grocery during an afternoon walk. They have a great selection for such a small place. I have been researching International Grocery stores and the products they carry. This place is the real deal!!! Authentic and quality ingredients. Don’t be scared off y the gruff exterior and darkness of the place. It is well organized, clean and stocked full of great finds.

The guy who runs this place is friendly and helpful, even though he’s pretty serious about keeping the refrigerator doors closed until you’ve made your selection. He’s got a pretty diverse range of treats, too – including insects and exotic sea creatures sometimes buried in the freezer box. We come for sauce and curries mostly, but we always buy some kind of novelty treat from the front-​end: squid-​flavored seaweed or something like that.
It’s a small business owned by a nice family: a good place to support.

Nice little store with a lot of Asian food variety. It’s a bit crammed as a lot of products are carried in a tiny space, but I found some things which I had only read in Thai recipes but could never find in a Chinese supermarket. This is probably because the owner is Thai. I am a fan of Thai food as that’s the next cuisine closest to Indian. and I am an Indian. (I had a little chat with him the last time I visited. He and his wife are very courteous and help you find a product).
Plus as others said, the prices are damn cheap, probably because they don’t waste money on fancy websites and store lighting and decoration! :)

Hello, neighborhood cash-​only hole-​in-​the-​wall asian Market. You now go by New PP Grocery.
You also sell things for DIRT CHEAP. When we discovered sushi wrappers for 1.75, I picked up three before realizing the cash only part of this store. With no cash on me except my special money for tipping, a stash of four $ 2 bills, I was still able to make my purchase.
I was directed here for said sushi wrappers and fake meats, but also found a surplus of wonder, from my favorite exotic canned fruits, to the most pastes YOU HAVE EVER SEEN OR HEARD OF. For real, if you google search «pastes,» the list will not be as long as what they have to offer, especially along the lines of curry pastes and coconut pastes. AND SHRIMP PASTE. I’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR IT EVERYWHERE. And mega-​cheap quail eggs.
You know how Giant has bins of candy that you pick out what you want? Well they basically have the same thing for Ramen noodle varieties. Oh so tempting.
Perfectly ripe avocados at the front are calling your name, as well as exciting looking candies and snacks. I only spent maybe 7 minutes in here, but next time I’m going I’ll spend half an hour discovering all of it’s 200 square feet!
(@Gale S., looking for extra gluten? They have something like fried gluten here. WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN.)
It was definitely worth the extra few blocks in the cold last night to find an Asian market so close to home with such great prices. I cannot wait to go back! Ahhh!
Also, there’s a CVS parking lot across the street, in case you prefer to drive?

I am giving this place four stars solely because they have tofu for CHEAP.
I moseyed into the P & P looking for canned «mock duck» or «seitan.» They didn’t have it, which wasn’t a big deal. I did have an awkward conversation with the man working there though to get this information.
The point is, the store is small and slightly cluttered, but they have ridiculously cheap tofu with which I made a delicious scramble. Hurray for soy-​based protein!

I was afraid I wouldn’t find a decent Asian supermarket, but I was wrong. This is why I love Unilocal!On my second day in Philadelphia, I stocked up on Sriracha, soy sauce, and sesame oil. Sure, it was a little more expensive than I’m used to paying (where Asians dominate and perfect competition drives prices down) but I didn’t feel as if I were gouged.
Even though the store is relatively small, it is jam-​packed with a lot of Asian goods. They even had Yan-​Yan! And the ramen selection made my heart go pitter-​pat! And the owner of the market who is indeed Thai was eager to make conversation once I showed that I knew a little something something about Thai culture and politics. It was really cute that he got so excited about talking to somebody about something. Oh, and since I didn’t go around with a basket, I was cradling all of my items in my arms, and he was nice enough to offer to take some stuff to the counter for me. All in all, it was a great find. I just wish it carried a few more Chinese sauces.

in a mad mission to make my own pad thai last week, i went into this grocery store and the man who runs it made my day. i had only $ 9.50 cash on me (they don’t take credit card) and he took me around the store finding me the best and least expensive ingredients. did you know that they sell their own tofu here? they also sell premade pad thai sauce and homemade rice noodles. it was such a delightful shopping experience (i dont’ have many) that i’m looking forward to going back soon.

i passed this small grocery store frequently on my way to the other green line café (when it was still there) or koch’s deli or varisty pizza (for overpriced but geographically convenient beer). yet i never noticed it until a few weeks ago. now i regularly go for the cheap, exotic ramen-​type noodles and a smattering of other groceries that i typically purchased from the overpriced cvs across the road. while the store initially seemed overwhelming with its frequently unlabeled selection, the proprietor is extremely helpful. he will even throw in a helpful recipe. this place definitely deserves more traffic.

PP grocery is a hidden gem. The best spot north of Baltimore to pick up your asian grocery, they also give Fu Wah a run for their money on selection — carrying way more noodles, curry pastes, frozen asian fruits (go rambuton!) and sauces then anyone around. You can get cheap tofu (25 cents a square), and avocado or champagne mango, and fresh mint for your mojitos in one place. And if you have to wait in line, no worries — soap operas (thai, methinks) play on a little tv above the freezer cases.
Run by a sweet husband and wife who always want to know what I’m cooking. When I was moving, he even closed his store, went out to his van, and brought me extra moving boxes!

While Fu-​Wah certainly dominates the Asian mini-​market scene in West Philly (deservedly so, even based solely on their delicious tofu hoagies), it’s convenient to have other places like this scattered around the individual neighborhoods. P&P is my go-​to spot for a few cheap grocery staples. They sell tofu, both packaged and in the bulk bin, for way less than the supermarket and can usually save the day with some ripe avocados when everyone else is out and you have an urgent need for guacamole. Conveniently located next to the laundromat and across from the CVS, P&P is perfect for stopping by to pick up an item or two.
One word of warning if you are a student, or at least look like one, and are in a group. There’s a bizarre sign on the door limiting the number of students allowed in at any given time. Which is weirder because I’ve never been there when any other customers were around so it doesn’t seem to be too much of a problem. But then again, maybe that’s because the sign is scaring off all the hoards of «students» trying to raid the place of its cheap tofu.

P P grocery what what!
I love your asian spice in a can and your cheap ass rice noodles. Your fresh made tofu has saved me a fortune over the years. P P I love your hair!