BOM Oriental Market

"🫶 Underrated Brandon Korean Market 🫶 An unexpected find! Hidden in Brandon is a fenced compound housing a few food trucks and one of the most intriguing, sprawling Korean markets in Tampa Bay. Known as BOM, the market has alternating food trucks on different days --- as well as house-made kimchi, banchan, rice cakes, and savory dishes. When you enter the large front market, dry goods on the right, produce on the left. Go past the register in the middle to find a connecting room with a kitchen. Past that in the back is a huge warehouse type room with even more frozen food, rice, drinks, and housewares. What makes this market unique: 1️⃣ Most items are $1-2 less than other local markets 2️⃣ Larger assortment of Korean frozen foods, noodles, and meal kits than most markets; including almost a dozen different kinds of kcorndogs and 삼각김밥 samgakkimbap ( onigiri ). 3️⃣ Produce that is fresher and more rare, like perilla/shiso leaf 4️⃣ Larger selection of Japanese items, like frozen dango 🍡 😍 5️⃣ One of my favorite Korean dishes is 수재비 Sujaebi, and they sell the frozen torn noodles for it in 3 different flavors; regular, potato, and pumpkin 6️⃣ Large selection of international snacks in interesting flavors 7️⃣ Fresh rice cakes, including my beloved 고구마떡 purple sweet potato filled 💜 🍠 8️⃣ 냄새 반찬 Large variety of fresh local banchan 9️⃣ Seasonal special deals, like cold noodle broths during the summer 🔟 Wednesdays and Saturdays are some prepared foods"