I was here on a hot, humid afternoon Saturday, July 8, 2017 at around 14:00. The parking lot was crowded and full of people. There was almost no parking anywhere even on the underground garage. I was lucky that I saw someone leave at a...
Read MoreI was here on a hot, humid afternoon Saturday, July 8, 2017 at around 14:00. The parking lot was crowded and full of people. There was almost no parking anywhere even on the underground garage. I was lucky that I saw someone leave at a corner spot. Other cars do not even follow the one way arrow on the bottom as that parking should have been mine. So parking here can be hard to find.Now to proceed to the store review, Mitsuwa is one of the Japanese supermarket stores that compete with Nijiya, Marukai, and Tokyo Central. I believe there are 6 Mitsuwa stores around Southern California (at the time of this review) and this location is one of my favorites of them all. Why I like this particular location?1. This particular Mitsuwa has a lot of mini stores. One of my favorites has to be Books Kinokuniya. I am not going to go on the details, but my friends always want to stop by for this store. There is also a J-style store as well that we look at to see if we can buy stuff like car accessories and other Japanese goodies. That is one of the biggest benefits of this location. There is also a DVD store right in the middle and a cooking ware store as well as beauty store (I believe it is Shiseido). Anyways....there is almost a store for everything and I will review them all on a future trip.2. The location also has a lot of selection of restaurants to eat. They have this place that sells beers for cheap. My friends took advantage of that while I became a designated driver. There are loads of food that I have yet to try it all, but I have to say that it is always busy. Be warned though that almost all of them are CASH ONLY. So that is the drawback. They also have several good desserts to pick from too. I shall try them one day and write a review.3. Sometimes Mitsuwa will have food events like a vendor coming in for a limited time to make crepes. At least in the past they did, but that is one of the nice things about Mitsuwa that I like.4. Now for the actual supermarket itself, there are great selections of Japanese products here. This time, I came here for the drinks and some hi-chew candy. This store did not disappoint. I would go on and talk about many selection of products they have, but I will do that in the future. This trip and previous trips, I would just get drinks.5. The cashiers are nice and most of them were actually Japanese. They said thank you in Japanese to me. Typical of a Japanese supermarket. It was funny though when I brought a box of hi-chews and there was ten, but the cashier charged me for twelve. I yelled out "twelve!?" She recounted and got ten. Yep, at least she admit her mistake, which was nice.6. Mitsuwa has its own credit card called JCB Mitsuwa. It has no membership fees and the best perk I believe is that you get nice rewards if you purchase at the Mitsuwa supermarket. The other perk is that if you do travel to Japan, I believe this is the card to get for you to use anywhere in Japan.Overall I want to say that this location of Mitsuwa is one of my favorite. Whenever I make a long drive to OC/LA I would always squeeze time to make a stop here. In my opinion, I like this location over the one at San Diego because the food court, books kinokuniya, location at Costa Mesa, and the fact that there is so much going on here.PS: You can buy alcohol, but you can not drink it in the food court. It tells you on the cash register next to where the credit card machine is at. Just remember that. They also have the beer vendor and maybe some restaurants sell it too and those are the only ones you can consume on the food court.
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