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You can fill your regular shopping list at the Assi Plaza, but you can also find unusual and exotic items that make you feel like you've gone on vacation -- 40# bags of rice, gallon jars of kimchee, etc.. And it's all under one roof.There's a shopping arcade with independent merchants selling clothes, cosmetics, jewelry, gifts.-- also an optician and a beauty shop.The food court has Korean, Chinese, and Japanese food and a lovely little bakery.The supermarket itself has a sushi bar, dumpling house, deli, etc.The produce department is filled with gorgeous fruits and vegetables The seafood department has squid, clams, octopus, tanks with abalone, crabs, sea cucumber, etc.The meat department has goat, oxtail, pork stomach, veal small intestine, etc.Back in housewares, you'll find imported Korean bar soap -- red ginseng, charcoal, honey, etc.They are open from 8:30 a.m. till 10:00 p.m.