TS Emporium 德成行

We especially like the can abalone, tea, and cookies. Good sturdy kitchen appliances and accessories. And especially the festive decorations for Chinese New Year. Oh yes, almost forgot the fish maw and gingseng. In the summer, keep out those pesky mosquitoes I buy medicated minty oil and use on a cotton ball. It keeps every insect away. Just two small droplet does the job. Cheaper more effective than eucalyptus oil.

Amazing store — high quality ingredients and foods, everything you need to run an entire herbalism practice or be your own herbalist. If you don’t speak mandarin, make sure you have an AI translator handy to help with verbal communication and making lists of the ingredients you need in a format they can understand, they will quickly go through a brief list like this and get you the medicine you need. Staff is typically kind and often helpful, in an unmistakably Chinese way.

Large location with plenty of aisles of products from Chinese and East Asian culture. Mostly packaged products with some fresh produce in the rear of the store. Plenty of obscure items will likely be found here. Dried shrimp, various chili oils and sauces, mushrooms, frozen food, teas, herbal products, and cultural decor. Parking is plentiful but can get busy at peak times.

Very clean, especially impressive how clean the restroom was in the middle of the day. Amber of grocery supplies including fresh veggies, herbs and snacks from many different Asia countries Highly recommend

TS Emporium has been around since I was in elementary school and my mom would always take me along with her to the store on right by Garvey and Garfield. I pretty much grew up with this store as the go-to place for herbs and spices. Never have I ever visited a store such as TS Emporium that has all the necessary ingredients Chinese people need for their traditional remedies, recipes, and medicine all in one place. Whether you're Chinese, Korean, Japanese, or Taiwanese, a lot of the products here are catered to most Asians in general and the stuff you find at supermarkets will most definitely be more expensive and poorer quality. I'm just happy that they finally opened one up north of the 10 freeway in the Temple City/San Gabriel area so that most individuals do not need to bother to drive out to Monterey Park or Rowland Heights for their other locations. Although I don't know how to make all those delicious traditional dishes with stuff like Lotus Seeds, Goji Berries, and all those roots/leaves with their scientific names, I know for sure I will visit any of the TS Emporium stores to find what I need. However, if you ever visit Hong Kong or Taiwan, getting the same quality products or better, will be at least half the price in the states but only if you can get some of the items through customs; good luck. Stuff like dried abalone, dried scallops, "birds nest", ginseng, and dried mushrooms are my top items to buy here. Pretty much any "dried" foods are always on my shopping list or my parents' shopping list. Also, the produce here is relatively cheaper than the major supermarket chains around the area. If you're nice enough to the people who pack it up in the back, you can ask for a smaller bag of whatever produce you need because I can never finish an entire bag that they've already prepackaged and I love the fact they give you an option. Just make sure you thank them for doing that for you and try not to ask them multiple times for different items. Most of their non-dried items are priced competitively so you'll have to shop around to find the cheapest at places like Good Fortune,168, 99 Ranch, or Great Wall Supermarket.

Today at the San Gabriel TS Emporium, I paid for a bag of Chinese dry herb, then found out that I bought the wrong one, and then went for return and pay for a different one with lower price. I only paid half with the card, the other half was cash for the entire purchase with other items. The #7 cashier said that my card does not allow refund and asked me to get more stuff to make up the difference. I said you can refund me with cash. She went inside and looked for her manager. She came out after a while, looked like she couldn’t find the manager. She said again my card doesn’t allow refund. I said I paid half with cash and that was more than the price of the return item, it got nothing to do with the card. After back and forth a few times, I insisted I wanted refund, and I don’t want to get more stuff that I don’t need. She finally refunded me the cash, but she kept my original receipt. I had to ask her to give it back to me. They made it so difficult to return. They came up with this non sense excuse that I never saw from other stores. Be careful when you shop over there.

TS Emporium has just opened it newest branch in Rosemead occupying the former Pep Boys store. On its first day of grand opening, there are a lot of promotional gifts giving out to patrons. Depending on the purchase amount, gifts packages vary with different practical things such as utensils, seasoning sauces and lunar calendars. This is by far the biggest stores of the Chinese herb specialty store chain. They have all the usual Chinese herbs plus all the other Chinese grocery items as well as freshly delivered produces directly from the local farms. For me, I normally shop at TS Emporium for Chinese cooking sauce and spices. They have the most comprehensive stocks of Chinese cooking ingredients. I can cook up a storm of any Chinese dish with ingredients here. Lastly, if you’re looking for an auto rice cooker, this place has all types and brands of rice cooker. We bought a 3 cup small rice cooker that’s made in Japan as Christmas present for our mom. During grand opening week, parking maybe a bit challenging. But they do have a lot of parking spaces in the back.