1005 Blalock Road
Houston, TX 77055
During the week of Thanksgiving, I finally had the chance to check out 99 Ranch Market. The place is huge! There's basically nothing that you can't find there except maybe super fancy American or non-asian items. I spent quite some time there just moseying up down and down every aisle and checking out all the food stalls in the food court area. I texted my very American co-worker and was like I need to bring you here. I bought all the groceries that I needed and then came back a few weeks later to try some of the food with big poppa. The food was okay. I would only eat there if I knew I was going to get groceries. There are a couple of negatives associated with my experience with this place. First, the parking is plain madness. Second, some of their fruit looks like they have been genetically modified cos they're fracking ginormous! That just screams mutation waiting to happen. Third, big poppa's family recently grilled up some steaks that they bought from here. They cooked the hell out of it and when it should have been passed the point of well done, the meat still looked super red on the inside. Gross! And it was super duper duper chewy like it wasn't meant to be eaten and digested. Double gross! So use good judgment when buying food from anywhere you shop. It it's a bargain and too cheap to be true, then you're better off not buying it. Don't do it!
Big ole onion.
There's also a Yori Yori in H-Mart. I love pork bulgogi. And big poppa loves that tofu stew.
The rest of the food court offers a small selection of dim sum, a steam table with some chinese stuff, chinese bbq, sushi and a boba place. The shrimp siu mai was blah. The spare ribs had a lot of tiny bones in it making me think that maybe the meat wasn't washed properly or maybe it was over-cooked? I don't know. But it was annoying having a mouthful of shredded bony pieces in your mouth. The green onion pancake also wasn't very good. It was room temp and kinda hard. The best dim sum like dish was the fried shrimp puffs. Those were so good but so bad for you. The milk tea was gross. I took a couple of sips and had to throw it away. I know a lot of people who like their milk tea this way but I am not one of those peeps.
Their bakery area that's always packed. I always want to get stuff from here but never know what to get. I should go there one day and just buy a bunch stuff.
