Oriental Market — Supermarket in Norrmalm, Stockholm
Oriental Market on Olof Palmes gata keeps a Thai ingredient range you would otherwise have to hunt across Stockholm for. The Chinese shelves run from seafood to snacks to daily necessities, and the aisles go on longer than the shopfront suggests.
What Oriental Market is
A mid-sized supermarket on Olof Palmes gata in Norrmalm, and the reason to come is the Asian range: Thai ingredients that are hard to find elsewhere in Stockholm, plus a Chinese selection that covers seafood, snacks and daily necessities. Staff are helpful and kind, and the shelves carry far more than the footprint suggests. Some items run expensive.
Verified November 2026 · 2 independent sources
The Asian supermarket on Olof Palmes gata
Oriental Market is an independent supermarket in Norrmalm, and the first thing you notice inside is how far back the shelves run for a shop of its size. The footprint is middle-sized, the assortment is not.
Start with the Thai side. That is where the specific things live, the pastes and jars and dry goods that do not turn up in a standard Stockholm shop, and it is worth walking the aisles slowly rather than shopping from a list. The Chinese range is the other half of the story: seafood, snacks and daily necessities, complete enough that you can build a whole meal out of it without crossing town.
Staff are helpful and kind, which matters in a shop where half the labels are not in a language you read. Ask and you will be pointed to the right shelf.
The friction is price.
What you get for the money is range. A country boy visiting the big city would find plenty to look through, and so would anyone who cooks Asian food at home and is tired of substituting.
What to look for
Thai ingredients
The Thai range is the standout, with things you will not find in a standard Stockholm supermarket.
Chinese seafood, snacks and daily necessities
A complete Chinese selection that runs from the fish counter to the snack shelf to household basics.
Helpful staff
You can ask for a shelf and get walked to it, which helps when the labels are not in Swedish.
The pick list
What to bring home
Asian food products
The shelves cover a broad spread of Asian groceries.
Chinese goods
The Chinese range is complete, with seafood, snacks and daily necessities all part of it.
Who is this for
Anyone who cooks Thai or Chinese food at home and is tired of substituting ingredients will find the range here worth the trip into Norrmalm. A traveler staying centrally who wants to assemble a picnic or a hotel-room meal from Asian snacks and seafood has everything in one middle-sized shop. And if you like reading labels in languages you do not speak, the aisles reward a slow browse.
The verdict
The Thai and Chinese range is broader than the shop's size suggests, but some items are priced above what you would pay elsewhere, so it suits cooks who need specific Asian ingredients rather than anyone shopping on price alone.
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