Chinese Markets and Asian Supermarkets in Budapest: Where to Shop, Even on Sunday

Karaoke rooms, a Chinese-language newspaper, an Asian pastry shop, 18 Chinese restaurants and more than 300 wholesale showrooms, all within four courtyards in District X. This is Monori Center, and it is where Budapest’s Chinese market lives today.

If you landed here looking for cheap clothes on a Sunday, Asian groceries, or the famous Chinese night market, the short answer is: two shopping centers, open seven days a week, plus one long-running spice shop in the center for when you cannot face the trip out. The longer answer, with the catches (wholesale rules, holiday closures, a summer night market that is not running now), is below.

📋 At a Glance

What you want	Where	District	Sunday
👕 Cheap clothes, shoes, bags, homeware	Monori Center, Mázsa utca 13	X	08:00 to 17:00
🥢 A large Asian grocery with lunch nearby	DunaPanda, Jegenye utca 26 (Monori Center)	X	08:00 to 21:00 (Google Maps listing)
🛍️ A Chinese-run mall with retail shops	World Mall (ex Asia Center), Szentmihályi út 167-169	XV	10:00 to 19:00
🍜 Chinese, Korean, Japanese groceries in one shop	Lucky Panda, World Mall	XV	10:00 to 19:00
🌶️ Spices and Asian staples in the center	Taste the World, Csarnok tér 5	IX	Closed
🏮 Chinese night market	Monori Center (not held in 2026); Fully, Vaspálya utca 25	X	Summer only, none running now

1. Monori Center: Budapest’s Chinese Market

Why go: This is the real thing, not a tourist market. Monori Center describes itself as one of the largest wholesale centers in Central and Eastern Europe, with more than 300 showrooms and 70,000 square meters of warehouses, and 90% of its shops are run by Chinese traders. The goods come straight from China, Vietnam, Turkey and Italy: clothing, footwear, leather goods, home textiles, fashion accessories, household appliances, phone and electronic accessories and interior decoration. The center has grown into the hub of Chinese life in the city, with a hotel, a school, churches, a traditional Chinese medicine clinic, karaoke rooms, massage parlors and hair salons, so a walk through the four courtyards feels like a small Chinese neighborhood.

What to know before you shop: Monori Center is wholesale. Private shoppers can buy, but each trader decides whether to set a minimum quantity per product, so ask before you start picking out sizes. If you want an invoice, shops ask for basic details such as your name, address and tax number; you do not need to show an ID. Prices are only quoted in person, and there is no central product search, so plan to wander. Every salesperson speaks Hungarian, and the center says basic English is enough to get by, with face-to-face communication working best.

Stay for lunch: The center has 18 Chinese restaurants, open every day from 10:00 to 21:00, so you can pair shopping with a proper meal. Our guide to eating at the Chinese restaurants of Monori Center picks the ones worth the trip, from Sichuan fish to hand-pulled noodles.

The facts:

• Address: Mázsa utca 13, 1107 Budapest, District X.
• Hours: showrooms open every day, Saturday and Sunday included, 08:00 to 17:00. Restaurants every day 10:00 to 21:00, each with slightly different hours.
• Holidays: the wholesale showrooms and the supermarkets close on Hungary’s national holidays, which the center announces ahead on its website and social media; the restaurants usually stay open. On Sunday 1 November 2026, All Saints’ Day, the wholesale center is closed, while most of the Chinese restaurants are open; book a table.
• Parking is free across the site.
• Getting there: bus 9 from Deák Ferenc tér, or tram 28 or 62 from Blaha Lujza tér, to Kőbánya alsó vasútállomás. Tram 3, buses 95 and 195 and trolleybus 73 also stop there. Mázsa utca runs off Mázsa tér by the stop.

Source: Monori Center, its about page, FAQ and hours and English FAQ, and Monori Center’s Facebook post of 5 October 2026 (1 November), read on 25 October 2026.

Source: lines serving each stop, from the BKK public timetable data (GTFS), read on 25 October 2026.

2. DunaPanda: Asian Supermarket at Monori Center

Why go: If you cook Asian food, or miss home, this is the shop. Monori Center’s directory lists Danube Panda at Jegenye utca 26, one of the two Asian supermarkets on the site. The range runs from fresh herbs such as coriander, tofu and a fish and seafood counter to sauces, spices, noodles, bakery goods and Korean ramen, then on into homeware and Chinese kitchen appliances. Plan an hour if you like to browse.

Tips: Many products carry labels only in Chinese, and not every member of staff speaks English or Hungarian, so a phone camera translation app saves a lot of guessing. The seafood corner has a strong smell, so shop it last. Come for the range rather than bargain prices: imported goods cost what imported goods cost.

The facts:

• Address: Jegenye utca 26, 1107 Budapest, District X (inside Monori Center).
• Hours: Monori Center’s site still lists 08:00 to 17:00 for its stores, DunaPanda’s entry included; the store’s Google Maps listing gives 08:00 to 21:00 every day, and those are the current hours. On national holidays, Monori Center says the supermarkets close.
• Getting there: the same stop as Monori Center, Kőbánya alsó vasútállomás.

Source: Monori Center shop directory and the DunaPanda Supermarket Google Maps listing (hours), read on 25 October 2026.

3. World Mall: The Former Asia Center

Why go: This is the mall that used to be called Asia Center (asiacenter.hu now leads to its site). Today it trades as World Mall, a mall of close to 300 shops run by traders from ten countries, built to feng shui principles in two wings on three floors. Unlike Monori Center, this is retail, so it is the easier pick if you want a couple of T-shirts, a pair of shoes, a suitcase or party clothes rather than a box of twenty. The mall itself points to its Asian ingredients and spices, and the second-floor food court has a Chinese and Thai wok bar and a Vietnamese kitchen serving pho.

On weekends there is a bonus for food lovers: the Ízműhely farmers’ market fills the ground floor of the west wing every Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00 with cheese, sausages and bacon, fresh vegetables and fruit, bread, pastries and craft beer.

Tips: Prices are low and quality varies from shop to shop, so check seams, sizes and zips before you pay. It is a long ride from the center, so pair it with the Asian supermarket below rather than making a special trip for one item. Dogs are welcome under the mall’s house rules.

The facts:

• Address: Szentmihályi út 167-169, 1152 Budapest, District XV.
• Shop hours: Monday to Friday 10:00 to 19:00, Saturday 10:00 to 20:00, Sunday 10:00 to 19:00.
• Closed on 1 November 2026, All Saints’ Day.
• Parking: free, about 1,350 spaces, open every day 06:00 to 23:00.
• Getting there: bus 7, 8E, 108E or 133E from Ferenciek tere, Blaha Lujza tér or Keleti pályaudvar, or 7E from Blaha Lujza tér or Keleti pályaudvar, to the Újpalota, Nyírpalota út terminus; buses 46 and 146 also end there. The mall is about 150 meters’ walk away.

Source: World Mall, its contact and directions page, about page, holiday notice, food court page and farmers’ market page, read on 25 October 2026.

4. Lucky Panda: Chinese, Korean and Japanese Groceries

Why go: The grocery reason to make the trip to World Mall. Lucky Panda calls itself one of the largest Asian food shops in Budapest, close to 500 square meters of Chinese, Korean and Japanese food: fresh vegetables and fruit, exotic fruit, seafood, frozen Asian products, spices and pantry staples, plus everything you need for sushi or a pot of ramen. It also sells household goods, party supplies, gifts and soft drinks.

The facts:

• Address: World Mall, east wing, first floor, Szentmihályi út 167-169, 1152 Budapest, District XV. Nearest car park: green sector.
• Hours: Monday to Friday 10:00 to 19:00, Saturday 10:00 to 20:00, Sunday 10:00 to 19:00. Closed on 1 November 2026.
• Phone: +36 30 313 8261.
• Getting there: as for World Mall above.

Source: Lucky Panda Supermarket on the World Mall site, read on 25 October 2026.

5. Taste the World: Asian Staples Next to the Great Market Hall

Why go: No time for District X or XV? This shop sits on Csarnok tér, beside the Great Market Hall, so it slots into a morning in the center. It started in 1988 as a 13 square meter stall in the market hall and now has 300 square meters of shop floor, selling spices and cooking ingredients from the Far East, the Middle East, the Americas and Europe. Come for the spices, the teas, the sauces and noodles and the harder-to-find Asian ingredients, and ask the staff if a recipe calls for something you cannot spot on the shelves.

Tip: It is closed on Sunday, so go on a weekday or a Saturday morning, ideally together with the market hall.

The facts:

• Address: Csarnok tér 5, 1093 Budapest, District IX.
• Hours: Monday 10:00 to 18:00, Tuesday to Friday 09:00 to 18:30, Saturday 09:00 to 15:00. No Sunday hours are published.
• Phone: +36 1 215 7148.
• Getting there: metro M4 or trams 2, 47, 48 or 49 to Fővám tér.

Source: Taste the World (Négy égtáj ízei), its about page, read on 25 October 2026.

The Chinese Night Market: Summer Only

Only in summer, and not at Monori Center in 2026. Monori Center describes its Chinese street food market as an event that has run every night of the week from May to August since 2013, popular with the local Chinese community. On 23 April 2026, Chinatown Budapest announced that it would not be held in 2026 because of construction work, while the restaurants stayed open in their usual places. Nothing has been said about 2027 yet.

Another night market ran in summer 2026: the FULLY Asian Gastro Night Market (FULLY Ázsiai Gasztro Éjszakai Piac), organized by the Fully Plaza shopping center (Cserkesz utca 41-43) and held at Vaspálya utca 25, also in District X. It opened in spring, held a Mid-Autumn Festival evening on 12 September, and announced on 16 September that its summer season was over. Neither market is running now, and next summer’s dates have not been announced. For an evening visit in the meantime, the Chinese restaurants at Monori Center stay open until 21:00 every day.

Nearby in District X, Bian Garden at Szállás utca 21 is a Vietnamese street food courtyard, with pho and bubble tea the dishes people come back for. Its Google Maps listing shows it open every day from 13:00 to 23:00.

Source: Monori Center about page, Chinatown Budapest’s Facebook post of 23 April 2026 and the Fully Plaza Facebook page (posts of 12 and 16 September 2026), read on 25 October 2026; Bian Garden Budapest Google Maps listing (hours), read on 25 October 2026.

What Happened to the Four Tigers Market?

Older guides still send readers to the Józsefváros market on Kőbányai út, known as Four Tigers (Négy Tigris). It no longer exists. The district pushed to close it, the state rail company terminated the operator’s lease in 2013, most traders moved across the road as water and power were cut back, and court bailiffs were scheduled to start clearing the site on 16 June 2014. Today Monori Center in District X is where Budapest’s Chinese wholesale trade is concentrated.

Source: Pénzcentrum, 15 June 2014, read on 25 October 2026.

Which One Should You Pick?

• Cheap clothes on a Sunday: World Mall for retail shopping; Monori Center if you are happy to buy in quantity, after asking each trader about minimums.
• Asian groceries plus a Chinese lunch: DunaPanda at Monori Center, then one of its 18 Chinese restaurants.
• Groceries plus a mall in one trip: Lucky Panda at World Mall.
• Ten minutes from your hotel: Taste the World by the Great Market Hall, Monday to Saturday.
• Night market: nothing is running now. Monori Center’s market was not held in 2026 because of construction work, and the Fully night market at Vaspálya utca 25 closed for the season on 16 September; watch for next summer’s dates.

For the rest of a weekend shopping plan, including which malls and markets open on Sunday in the center, see our Budapest shopping guide.