A Dong Supermarket 160 Shield Street
West Hartford, CT
(860)953-8903
Open until 8:00 P.M.
The A. Dong Grocery on Shield Street is a grocery from a different world. As soon you walk in the door, you can see roasted ducks hanging from their heads, next to roast pork and sometimes even a roasted boar's head. There is a Chinese bakery, which excellent pastries, a produce section that has vegtables and fruits you may have never seen before. The seafood section has unusual fish, too. They had live eels there one day, another time some kind of live buffalo fish the size of small pigs, and another time a bin of live blue crabs. There is a cold drink section that offers drinks like fungus and Lychee. There is an entire supermarket row just of different kinds of tea -- tea for the colon, tea for the liver, tea for the back, tea for the sex life. You name it, they have a tea for it. This place is an adventure just to walk through.
I go there sometimes for the roast duck. $7.95 for half a duck, chopped up with or without the head and packed into an aluminim foil pan. If they don't have one already sliced up, you can watch the woman behind the counter take down the duck and then make quick work of it with her meat cleaver. The barbequed pork here is so much better than what you get from a Chinese restaurant. It is fresh cooked her on premesis.
Note: I have yet to try the boar's head.
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