Grocery Stores
Oriental Supermarket
About Oriental Supermarket
Grocery shopping in a city this size splits between the big chains and the smaller specialist shops that carry what the chains do not, and Oriental Supermarket belongs firmly to the second group, trading at 2573 97 Hwy on the Dilworth side of Kelowna. That is the Highway 97 corridor through the middle of town, the road nearly everyone uses to move between the north and south ends, which makes the shop an easy detour on a route most residents already drive.
The name suggests a grocery built around Asian ingredients, organised differently from a chain supermarket, and that is rather the point of going. Specialty grocers of this kind tend to carry far more depth within a narrower range than a general supermarket does, along with imported items that turn up rarely elsewhere. What any individual store keeps depends on its size and its suppliers, so when you are shopping for one particular ingredient, a call ahead beats a wasted trip across town.
Kelowna is spread out and this stretch of highway is its busiest artery, thick with traffic through the middle of the day and heavier still across the summer tourist season. Shopping earlier or later usually pays for itself in time saved. From Rutland or the Black Mountain slopes the run is short; from the Lower Mission or Kettle Valley it means a longer drive up the lake side of the city, so combine it with other errands along the corridor.
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In the Dilworth neighbourhood of Kelowna.
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