I agree with the previous poster. Even though this deli is more hygenic than typical China town places, the food is crap.

The hot food table food is swimming in oil, the vegetables are even labelled as fried vegetables. Almost every dish is deep fried. The noodles and rice swim in vats of oil yet are paradoxically dry.

The steam trays are large and instead of making fresh batches the food just sits there.

I really don't recommend the cooked foods, you'll be bloated with indigestion after.

The dim sum doesn't fare better. The hargow wrappers are too thick and the dim sum becomes overcooked as it just sits in the steamer.

The worst part is that many of their dim sums are prepared by hand in-house but just because they don't have a high turnover and because it sits there it tastes bad.

As for the shiny plastic wrapped cooked foods and sushi, it doesn't actually taste good. It looks appetizing but if you taste it there really is a lack of taste. With so many sushi places on every corner in Vancouver, do we really need machine-made pre-packaged sushi with hardened sushi rice? The vietnamese salad rolls are cheap, but the wrapper hardens and can't compare to a freshly wrapped roll from a restaurant.

Even the buns and baked goods aren't that good, they are so stingy with toppings & fillings. Walk a couple of blocks down into the heart of Chinatown and pick up high-quality baked goods from the small bakeries located there.

My friends mom worked at this place and she never ate there even with a discount. She had the opinion that the food was too greasy and unhealthy, I agree. I also heard rumours that they use the expired or just going to expire foods in their cooked deli section, which may explain why the veggies always look past their prime.

Avoid this place, your taste buds and stomach will thank you.

Also while the grocery store part is okay for getting hard to find Asian ingredients in a familiar Western store setting, the seafood mongers also are sort of dishonest. I buy fresh prawns here, and inevitably some dead prawns will also be included. I wish the workers were more honest, but I can see why management probably encourages this as it fattens their profits. They can easily just skim the live prawns from the top of the tank, instead of digging in and gathering the dead one's too.

Also be careful of the crabs, as sometimes they sit in the water so long and are just old.

I've come here before to grab a quick bite, there is a wide variety of self serve meals including rolls/sashimi, a hot food take out section much like in a foodcourt mall, a cold salad section. The deli is clean and the food is always fresh.
They have a seating/eating section that is good to sit if you want to grab and go but it's not always super clean, there's also seating outside across the street on nice days. I spend $7 for 2 small salad rolls and 1 small helping from the cold salad bar. It was delicious. They also have bakery which is to die for. Around lunch time it tends to get a bit hectic with all types of people grabbing a bite - elderly, younger school kids, students and business people. When in the area it's my first choice for a quick lunch. Definalty give it a try.