Marukai is a store similar to Mitsuwa. I’m not sure if they are also a chain. As for food they have more selection than the Costa Mesa Mitsuwa and they have better prices. They require a $10 membership but generally you’ll save more than $10 over Mitsuwa on your first trip.
They also have some Hawaiian foods although they are all frozen. They have pork, chicken and fish lau-laus and they have kalua pork and kalua chicken as well as some poke mix and laup-chong (a sweet sausage that Hawaiians like especially in fried rice)
Directions: Take the 91 Fwy west until it ends just past the 110. It becomes Artisia Blvd. Keep going west on Artisia to Western. Make a U-Turn then turn right into Marukai. OR, Take 405 and exit on Artisia East or Western North. Marukai is at the corner of Western and Artisia. Note: don’t mistake the Marukai 99 cent store that’s about a mile east of Western.
I’ve been told there is now a Marukai in Orange County too.
They also have a Marukai in Little Toyko in Downtown Los Angeles. They have Redondo’s Portugese Sausage at Marukai!
Today, I went to Marukai and bought “Ripovitan 6pack” for $6.49. Then I went to Mitsuwa, the price was $4.99. I was very disappointed about difference of price. If I can find things cheaper than Marukai, they shouldn’t charge membership fee or they should have a money back guarantee.
artisia — artesia
there are at least five other marukai stores in california alone, it is a chain
there is an extremely large selection of non-frozen hawaiian foods such as cookies, macadamia nuts, candy, bread etc. if one even thinks about it, any other kind of food from hawaii would go bad if not frozen