Super G is the United Nations of grocery stores and we love it

With traditional grocers battling it out for the best cakes and biggest market share, unique niche grocer Super G Mart, North Carolina’s largest international market, is holding its own as the only place in town where you can buy frozen sea squirts, sit down to an authentic Korean meal in the cafe, and mail a letter in their on-site post office all in one place.

“Banana leaves. Napa cabbage. Aloe vera leaves. Yucca root. Cactus leaves. Those aren’t the kind of foods you normally find in the produce section of your neighborhood grocery. But Super G Mart isn’t your everyday grocery. We are the largest international Supermarket in North Carolina with rows and rows of spices, produce, canned goods and household items popular at points around the globe. Looking for roasted eel? Super G has it. Green coconuts? They’re there. Lila Yautia? Frozen sea squirts? Canned whelk? Put checks by them all.”

So if you’re over the grocery battle and on the hunt for some hard-to-find international ingredients, take a look inside Charlotte’s olive branch-bearing United Nations of of grocery stores…

The produce section is intense with rows of brightly colored things I’ve never even seen, including this giant thing I was informed is a jackfruit. (Pro tip: You can get jackfruit tacos at Bean Vegan Cuisine.)

As a vegetarian, I tried to breeze by the butcher but my friend wanted to make sure I got a good hard look at the pork uteri because she is cruel. Pretty sure Publix and Harris Teeter don’t have these. Point for Super G.

The fish market has a crazy collection of creatures, including some live, which is simultaneously alarming but also authentic.

There’s an international cafe and bakery that we passed on since we had just come from Your Mom’s Donuts, but rumor has it it’s the real deal.

And perhaps most important, there is a real USPS post office and a community lounge. Beat that, other grocery stores.

To say that I was overwhelmed in Super G would be an understatement, but I wanted to make sure I at least left with something so I snagged an assortment of the weirdest (to me) canned drinks I could find. That cucumber soda tasted like a popcorn-flavored Jelly Belly.