A new 99 Ranch Supermarket will open in Fountain Valley any day now. The Chinese grocery chain, which already has three other stores in Orange County, will replace Marukai at 18081 Magnolia Ave. in Fountain Valley. The company is also slated to open a few other new stores in California in the near future, including one in the Inland Empire.
As with every 99 Ranch Supermarket, look forward to complementary businesses and restaurants to debut next to it. The stores in Irvine and Anaheim have spurred what many consider mini-Chinatowns to grow around them.
Before becoming an award-winning restaurant critic for OC Weekly in 2007, Edwin Goei went by the alias “elmomonster” on his blog Monster Munching, in which he once wrote a whole review in haiku.