Anyone who thinks Baltimore’s Chinatown is washed up – or believes you have to drive out to the suburbs to find a real Asian market – clearly doesn’t know about Po Tung Oriental Grocery.

The little shop at 321 Park Avenue was hopping on a recent afternoon. There was an African-American man perusing many soy sauce and fish sauce varieties. In the next aisle, a young Asian man was filling his basket with eggs, ramen and veggies.

“I don’t have it, but I will try to find it for you, Mama,” owner Jerry Tsang was assuring a woman he later explained was from Africa, a regular.

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