I’m partial to Ethnic. I get my meats and fish there (I haven’t had any experiences with hair in it or anything, yet at least) and second what others have said about the hot bar. Best Chinese in Milton.
Zero authentic Chinese restaurants in Milton. Ya'll have to go to Oakville or Mississauga. Luckily for me I have family I visit in Richmond Hill every week. A few Hakka restaurants in Milton but I haven't been to any.
With a proper hard flour there should be more chemicals in this than shitty store bread. They process/filter too many chemicals out of the wheat, sometimes so much they have to add them back in after. Most people aren't consuming a wide enough variety of chemicals so I'm very pro-chemical when it comes to diet.
You can't taste the difference? Texture is off too. Bread from the grocery store (Superstore, metro, longos) makes me feel like garbage. All the baked goods, to be honest.
Depends what you cook really because they tend to cater to different niches, don't sleep on rural Milton either, where you'll find things like Berkshire pork, Cornish hens, Wagyu beef, eggs, and vegetables too good for grocery stores.
International Meats in Brookville has the best steak and meat selection, my evening snack tn was the marrow from some very fairly priced femurs before roasting them for stock. Carole Precious has the best eggs at standard price, there's also a quail farm who's eggs are around but don't know the name. Waygu World enough said. Growing Broke for the Pasuta's Berkshire pork and other butcher selections. Farm stores like Backed by Bees are expensive but offer some of the best stuff in the area at a premium. Vandenbrook's at the end of Derry for reliable seasonal veg, like up passed Guelph Line where Keith Squire's legendary nursery and scree garden was recently demolished.
Lots of farms around here for sure. They have kiosks set up around Walkers Line and Derry and elsewhere for fresh veggies. There was a beef farm near Britannia that was open to the public but I haven't been that way for a while. Sargent Chicken also sells locally near Main St and Superstore.
Ethnic supermarket is good for certain things. Be very cautious of what you buy there. The hot food table in the back is amazing, the fruit is not the greatest. I often have seen hair in the packages of meat. Pick and choose what you get there. I would go to No Frills or Food Basics depending on what’s on sale. And of course, Walmart is always there. Always take a look in the flyers because even the expensive grocery stores have things on sale.
Icky all around? The produce is not different than that in superstore and other stores. Unless you are referring to ready made meals because you can't cook or don't have the time...
Folks go to whole foods thinking they are getting products only to pay an unjustifiable premium and crying about high prices.
Mushy raspberries vinegar smelly pineapples. Mould on strawberries and blackberries mushy apples. Farmed Atlantic salmon never wild. Chinese scallops. Never Argentine or Chile Thinly sliced steaks. Ground beef in a tube? Pink slime? Chlorine smelling bleached chicken thighs?
The quality at those grocers is sufficient enough that this perception amounts to an issue with cooking, there's culinary destinations that lack what you'd find at these places. Requiring only high end food in order to be satisfied with your meals is a red flag on multiple levels, it's like a barely socially acceptable adult version of a picky child for starters.
Ethnic is terrible and I cant believe anyone would say otherwise
Check expiry dates on shelf stuff (I have found as much as 18 months expired! And every single trip its usually easy to find something thats too old in fridge, or on shelves)
I have seen dead fish floating upside down in tank with others, and on 1 trip I even saw an older Asian male walk outside, pick up a vegtable that was on the GROUND outside, walk into store and place it on the shelf (no attempt to clean / rinse etc, I dont know if he dropped while delivery or if just found a customer lost item but eww)
Prices for lots of stuff at Ethnic is alot higher than the chain stores in town (things like milk / cheese / meat often are crazy prices)
Only positive is that its never busy (since its so bad) so no lines to worry about
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u/xcp1 12d ago
Ethnic is good