Hong Kong's Best Online Grocery Stores

In honor of our “Do-It-Yourself” issue, we thought we’d arm you with a list of online supermarkets, a relatively hot, new trend in town. Upside: you get to sit back, click a few buttons and voila, the magical grocery delivery genie shows up at your doorstep within a few days. Downside: even less reason to ever use your legs for locomotion in this town.

South Stream Seafoods

First and foremost, if anyone’s looking for a good ol’ turkey to cook up for Thanksgiving this year, you’ve come to the right place. Plenty of sizes and brands are on offer (Norbest, Butterball, Shelton Organic or Eberly Amish Raised Organic), both fully defrosted or semi-defrosted. Now that that’s out of the way, South Stream Seafoods has been around since the 90s, feeding the demand for high quality imported seafood, and particularly specializing in imported chilled fish and live shellfish predominantly from New Zealand and Australia. For competitive reasons, you’ll have to contact them for wholesale prices. They also stock a load of other goods such as breads, pies, oils, sauces and spreads and other stuff completely, including Mountain Green Baby Detergent and Softener (random?). $200 is the minimum order with a $45 delivery charge—the fee is waived for any order of $400 or more.
www.south-stream-seafoods.com

Health Gate

Health Gate claims to be the first organic foods store in Hong Kong, slinging a “healthy eating and healthy lifestyle” attitude to us lazy, unhealthy city-dwellers. Opened in 1992, they are now an established importer, wholesaler and retailer of over 2,000 organic and health foods and products, serving customers in Hong Kong, Macau, mainland China and a few other Asian countries. They handpick the finest products made only from organic ingredients and give special attention to stocking products that contain no GM substances, and no MSG, preservatives or additives. People with specific dietary requirements will find that this store is exactly what the doctor ordered, with foods especially catered to those with gluten-free, wheat-free, dairy-free diets and also to diabetics and vegetarians. With a twice-a-week home and office delivery schedule, they’ll ensure your shelves (and cubicles) are stocked with only the healthiest items available!
www.health-gate.com

LOVE Organic

LOVE Organic stands for Local Organic Vegetable Express and is the only social enterprise on our list of groceries-on-wheels. Funded by the Enhancing Self-Reliance Through District Partnership Program and partners with SEED (formerly the Hong Kong Organic Farming Association), they aim to raise awareness and recognition of the working abilities of people with disabilities and other disadvantages. Download their online form to order seasonal goodies like bean sprouts, bean curd, okra, eggs, chives, mushrooms, and so on.
www.loveorganichk.net