The New Lucky Supermarket Opened on Calgary Trail, Edmonton

Wow. I dropped by the new Lucky supermarket for its grand opening at the end of November, 2024. The place was super crowded as a pile of other people had the same idea. The store is very modern and shiny with the grand opening and is quite large.  I've seen products here I haven't seen before and plenty of the staples!

I went back a couple of days later to do a little shopping as the checkout lines were pretty darn long on the first day.  There were a bunch of interesting snacks and foods to buy.

I found plenty of Japanese products at Lucky. 

More interesting products including Japanese meal replacement/energy bars and toast spreads in a tube for peanut butter, garlic toast, and mentaiko.

With the addition of Lucky, there is a roughly one kilometre stretch of Calgary Trail that is crowded with supermarkets for grocery shopping. Walmart marks the north end, then Bulk Barn, followed by H-Mart, then T & T, across 34th Avenue to Save On Foods, and then Lucky Supermarket at the south end.  I find it remarkable you have a Korean Supermarket in H-Mart, and then a couple of Chinese/SE Asian supermarkets in T & T and Lucky.  These are not small markets either, so you will be able to find a huge variety of groceries of all types.

Tasty Midori Ramen

All the Asian supermarkets also have food kiosks + dining areas and I'm going to be trying out Lucky in the future since they just opened.  You can get Chinese BBQ at T & T and Lucky, and all types of Korean food at H-Mart.  I really like the Korean Fried Chicken (regular, boneless) at H-Mart too.  Not only that you have a number of different restaurants in the area so there is a distinct Asian flair to the area.

For Asian restaurants you have:

Japanese Village restaurant
Xingfutang bubble tea
Jollibee for Filipino food
Machi Machi bubble tea
Beijing Beijing for Chinese Food/Dim Sum
Nomiya for Japanese food
Midori for Chicken Paitan Ramen (really good)
Macao Imperial Tea
Pho Thanh for Vietnamese
Noodle Feast - northern Chinese noodles
852 Hong Kong Cafe
Tasty Noodle restaurant and dim sum
Menjiro Ramen for Tonkotsu/Shoyu Ramen (quite good)
Coco Bubble Tea
Tasty Choice Cafe
Dookbaeki Korean Restaurant
Baekjeong Korean BBQ House

A little further east on 99 Street you also have Hanjan for Korean food and Izakaya Tomo

I probably even missed a few cafes or bubble tea places too.  You can definitely get a taste of Asia in the area and probably spend an afternoon looking through all these places and eating if you wanted to!