Prices, Quality, and Authenticity: the Truth About Jason's Best Asian Market
By Robert Thorne
The rear perimeter contains two focal points: the full-service butcher meat department and the fresh seafood counter. Traditional grocers have phased out onsite butchers in favor of pre-packed, centralized distribution trays. Jason's maintains an active, staffed butcher counter ready to cut proteins to custom culinary specifications.
Need bone-in pork shoulder cut crosswise for soup? Looking for whole duck, ox tail, beef shank, or paper-thin ribbons of ribeye shaved specifically for tabletop shabu-shabu? The team handles those cuts on demand. This flexibility appeals to home cooks who refuse to pay boutique butcher markups for practical cuts.
At the seafood station, aeration lines hum inside active tanks holding live tilapia, Dungeness crab, Manila clams, and seasonal spot prawns. Customers select their fish from the tanks, handing it over to staff for cleaning, descaling, gutting, or whole-filleting at no extra charge. This transparent setup eliminates the ambiguity of previously frozen fish sitting on melting ice beds, delivering an ocean-to-pan freshness standard that few conventional grocers attempt to match.
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