If you haven't already been, THE spot for Asian food is near metro Tolbiac on Avenue de Choisy. The food is delicious, cheap and the restaurants are always packed. There are a bunch to choose from.

Tang's grocery store is also up the street, more towards Place d'Italie where you can wander around and get everything you need to make an Asian meal... this place has like 20 different kinds of lettuce and cabbage. A friend of mine hosted a dinner the other night where he got all the stuff there - egg rolls, four kinds of dim sum which he steamed, two kinds of sticky buns, and some kind of nougat-y dessert. I was so pysched.