Wing Yip
- 020 8688 4880
- 020 8688 8786
- 544 Purley Way, Croydon (map of this place)
- CR0 4RF
- wingyip.com
- 9:30 - 19:00 Mon-Sat, 11:30-17:30 Sun and Bank Holidays
A large oriental supermarket on Purley Way, in Croydon. The shop sells an enormous range of foods from China, Japan and other Asian countries. There's a large frozen section, lots of dry goods, and some fresh fruit and vegetables. Oh, and fresh meat and fish counters, the latter featuring large buckets of live crabs and a few tanks of assorted other crustaceans and fish. The shop also sells cooking utensils and crockery, and there's an enormous warehouse section at the back selling goods in catering sizes for the restaurant trade and people with large families.
The company claims "more than 2,500 lines in stock", and the selection is vast - from instant ramen and prawn crackers to frozen pigs' uteri and chickens' feet. Your reviewer was given a random selection of Chinese delicacies to obtain for a friend and managed to locate all of them.
Attached to the shop is a small arcade of Chinese shops, and a couple of restaurants that will hopefully receive separate reviews. Both are absolutely first class, albeit not incredibly cheap.
There is ample parking outside the complex, which is easily recognisable from the road by the enormous "pagoda" arch over the entrance. Arriving by public transport is more problematic: the 289 and 119 buses stop outside, but it's a ten minute walk from [Waddon Station]?, and twenty minutes from [Waddon Marsh]? and [Wandle Park]? tram stops.