I have a strange fetish for exotic foods. Not to eat them -- although that is sometimes involved -- but just to know that they exist. It's a Ripley's-Believe-it-or-Not type fascination to know that there are culinary cultures out there that are so alien to what I grew up with.
The Bay area is loaded with hunting grounds for such treasure -- from the well-known (Ranch 99) to the more obscure (Hai Thanh Market) to the downright freaky (WinMart). So we're always on the lookout for something new and different.
Which is how we stumbled upon the New Wing Yuan Market after finishing some dim sum next door. 
At first, it appears to be a Ranch 99 knock-off, minus the seething hordes of people. But the more we perused the aisles, the stranger stuff we began to see. It's definitely got a pan-Asian inventory going that I haven't seen before, even at larger places like Ranch 99.
There's a lot of Filipino and Thai goods mixed in with the typical Chinese, Japanese, Korean stuff. For instance, there's an entire section just for halo-halo ingredients, which we'd never seen before.
Oh, and of course there were three (count 'em) different brands of jarred... "Pickled Mud Fish"
Ah, yeeeeeah -- my man Mud Fish -- bringing the POWER!
I'm definitely going to make it a point to visit this place again, if only to see what other types of madness I can uncover in the aisles.
New Wing Yuan Market
1139 N Lawrence Expy
Sunnyvale, CA
94089