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Shuang Hur, September 2026 (St. Paul, MN)

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I know I’d said post this week’s Twin Cities report on Wednesday, as usual—what can I say, things got a little complicated/busy midweek. Anyway, Friday is the new Wednesday and here it is: a look not at a restaurant meal, but at an Asian grocery store. Specifically, it’s a look at Shuang Hur’s flagship location on University Avenue in St. Paul.

This is my second report on this location of Shuang Hur. It was one of the very first stores I reported on when I began to feature Twin Cities immigrant groceries on the blog. That was back in mid-2018. Back then we shopped at Shuang Hur quite often, stopping in particularly for whole fish and greens. As our awareness of the larger Twin Cities’ Asian grocery scene grew, our custom got spread around a fair bit, and so it was after a gap of some years that we returned to Shuang Hur in September. Continue reading →

Shuang Hur (St. Paul, MN)

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I’ve posted a number of write-ups of outdoor and covered markets in Minnesota (Hmongtown Marketplace and Hmong Village), Montreal (Jean-Talon) and London (Borough Market). I’ll have more of these as the opportunity arises (there’ll be another from London soon enough). However, in 2018 I’ll have a far more regular series of write-ups of formal markets/grocery stores that cater to various immigrant communities in the Twin Cities metro area. I’ve already posted one of these—a quick look at Andale Mercado in Richfield. Here now is a look at the Shuang Hur mothership on University Avenue in St. Paul, one of the mainstays of the East Asian scene. I’d call it a quick look—it’s light on text—but there are rather a lot of images. The main goal of this series of posts is to give people who’ve not shopped in these markets a decent sense of what’s available there and hopefully give them a reason or two to go. Hence the maximalist approach to images. Continue reading →