The New Lucky Supermarket Opened on Calgary Trail, Edmonton (Kinjo Too)

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.

Update February 2025

Kinjo for fun Japanese Cuisine is open just a little further south in South Edmonton Common. This chain of places is pretty famous in Calgary. It has always impressed me and this first restaurant in Edmonton is pretty nice and the food is great - as expected. They're famous for their cheap and tasty fried chicken and their value ramen bowls along with all types of sushi and other great appetizers and mains.  The decor in the restaurant is bright, sets the right atmosphere, and it is a pretty busy place most of the time giving it a fun and noisy vibe. I just don't know why the front entrance has statues from the tomb of the first emperor of China, but it looks good. I don't know how they keep the prices so reasonable, but its going to have me come back. They even have a little store with a full set of Japanese toys, models, snacks, drinks, sushi and onigiri to go and the chicken is even cheaper for take out!

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!