The pig is the unquestioned star of the contemporary food scene, but until you have visited the Olive Farmers' Market — not a farmers' market at all, but one of the area's biggest Asian grocery stores — you have absolutely no idea just how diverse Porky's culinary offerings are. Here you will find everything from the gently folded pork face that we lovingly call snoots to dark red bricks of coagulated pork blood to pork intestines to, yes, pork uteri. (They are excellent in hot pots. Apparently.) That extraordinary variety extends to the entire selection at the Olive Farmers' Market. Here you can sample drinks in unexpected flavors (chrysanthemum, anyone?) and enough different kinds of ramen noodles that you might be able to feed yourself through college without any repeats. And while the market might not gleam like the newest supermarkets, you can't feel any closer to your food: Nothing separates you from the whole fish laid out on ice, and the live crabs scuttle over an open pen, their claws snapping at your curious fingers.
Global Foods Market
| Sep 25, 2014
Jay International Food Co.
| Sep 26, 2013
Seafood City
| Sep 27, 2012
Olive Farmers' Market
| Sep 22, 2011
Olive Farmers' Market
| Sep 29, 2010
Global Foods Market
| Sep 30, 2009
Seafood City
| Sep 26, 2007
Olive Farmers Market
| Sep 27, 2006
Central Trading Company
| Sep 29, 2005
Seafood City
| Sep 29, 2004
Seafood City
| Sep 29, 2004
The Asian Farmer's Market
| Sep 24, 2003
The Asian Farmer's Market
| Sep 24, 2003