What are my options for shopping now if I don want to go to Allston Super 88?
I live in Waltham and I buy Chinese veggies from Russo’s, and Asian rice and noodles from the Korean store next to Waltham Common. But every now and then, I need the basic pantry stuff like soy sauce, oyster sauce etc. Which market will be the closest from Waltham that carries the above-mentioned items? Permalink | Reply y2000k Oct 21, 2008 02:50PM • re: y2000k I gotta say, in spite of the general dissatisfaction with the Allston super 88 stock (by myself included), I wouldn’t necessarily rule them out for stuff like this. They still seem to have a decent stock of such things, which is certainly bigger than a lot of our little neighborhood markets, and hopefully the various reports about restructuring mean that it will pick up again. So unless you’re looking for a specific brand they’ve stopped carrying, or you object to them for some principled reason, they might serve just fine. (I’m surprised to be saying this, given that I already thought they were dismal when the “well-stocked and
