T&T Supermarket's San Francisco opening draws early-morning lineups

Shoppers began lining up as early as 4 a.m. For the opening of T&T Supermarket's newest store in San Francisco on Nov. 5, several hours before doors opened at 8 a.m., according to the New York Post.

The store occupies a 50,000-square-foot former Best Buy location that had been vacant for nearly a decade. It is T&T's fourth U.S. location in two years, joining two stores in Washington state and one in San Jose, California.

The in-house T&T Kitchen runs a self-serve hot food bar with more than 20 dishes, along with Taiwanese sticky rice rolls, Baby Bear Bao, baked goods and packaged snacks. It is the first U.S. T&T location with a cafe, serving made-to-order drinks such as ube and black sesame lattes and dragonfruit lemonade. The store also stocks Japanese matcha products and Korean and Japanese skincare.

The produce section carries around 200 vegetable varieties and 17 kinds of mushrooms, alongside fresh fish, seafood and meats.

One customer waiting in line told local media the wontons and crepes were the draw. The first shopper through the doors told ABC News waiting for hours was worth it: "Yes, definitely." A local shopper posting in the r/bayarea subreddit called the store "clean" with "good" prices, and said it was convenient because there had not been a proper Asian grocery store nearby.