Manila Mart

There’s very few Filipino establishments here in Georgia, but Manila Mart is the place to go to get those hard to find Pinoy ingredients and goodies. (like Calamansi juice!)
It’s great to come by and get many prepared foods such as BBQ, Pancit, Dinuguan, and many more.
My FAVORITE reason to come by is for their Halo Halo dessert! They make it perfect every time. Not to mention the customer service is always so friendly!

Stopped by to pick up some ready-​to-​eat foods in the fridge. They had a type of papaya salad, dinuguan (pork blood soup), chicken adobo (chicken stewed in soy sauce and vinegar) pork adobo (pork stewed in soy sauce and vinegar), palabok (noodles in a yellow-​orange sauce with shrimp, egg, pork rinds), and BBQ sticks! I picked up the BBQ sticks and palabok– each ranged about $ 7-​$ 8– ended up paying around $ 15 but enough food for me to eat for several meals! The guy checking me out at the counter was really nice as well. Overall I’m glad this store is here; they have a great selection of Filipino goods!

I like to drive around and look for my Pinoy food. Good little place like any other Pinoy stores. Drove two hours just to see this.

Owner was super nice and super helpful to help me get the items I needed to make pancit and lumpia. Even informed me on some other ingredients to add to my dish. Hopefully they will open up another location closer to Alpharetta. I’m excited to cook these dishes! also bought the pre-​marinated pork quick comes with sauce to put in the grill. Good football eats for Sunday! 0

I am so thankful for this place! I wish they reopened a store in Augusta. Came in for some materials for pancit and also left with my favorite– ube ice cream! And some lumpia too :) the cashier was really nice and helpful. He also gave us a block of ice for the frozen food and ice cream since we told him we came all the way from Augusta. I really appreciated the small act of kindness and I will definitely be back here again! It wasn’t as large as I would’ve liked but it had all that I needed plus the great customer service.

Any Filipino place is 5 stars in my book. They’re rare gems to come by. They have some of your basic Filipino ingredients and a small fridge section with already cooked filipino food if you don’t feel like cooking, but still craving that Filipino fix. I drove 30 min to pick up some dinuguan & pusit adobo. Totally worth it! Cute location & well presented too.

I really like this store. They carry alot of products from the Philippines that are hard to find. I love the cooked food on the weekends. I look forward to going there on Sundays.

I’m not a Filipino, but I love this store. They serve a fantastic Halo Halo, which is a Filipino dessert. I also love to pick up some lumpia which is sort of like a spring roll but much better!

Ok so this is their new location on Peachtree Parkway in the same shopping plaza as Ihop. It’s somewhat bigger than the old store and organized better. There are also more freezers and refrigerated items. There are homemade Filipino dishes that are delivered there daily. You can basically find the same things at BHFM which is a more of a one-​stop-​shop for me. Still, they have more frozen items here such as ice cream, frozen meats, frozen egg rolls, frozen fish, and frozen Asian veggies.
By the way, they average about 20 cents more expensive than BHFM.

Filipino food, for the uninitiated, is a mash-​up of Chinese, Spanish, and Polynesian food. Much like its people, I might add. Some of it is scary, some of it is downright delicious and all of it reminds me of my Filipino mother complaining how disappointed she is in me. That said, even my snarky, cold-​hearted self seeks a taste of home. When I want that, I go to basically the only Filipino Market within 200 miles of here, Manila Mart! Rather than go into detail, here is an excerpt from a recent exchange between myself and fellow Unilocaler, Joel C.
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Joel: sweet… good deal! 11 years is quite a long time in Atlanta! I have been here for about 6 years… I am surprised that I have been here for that long! you need to do a review on a filipino store or something! do they even have that here?
Me: You mean Manila Mart? Yeah, I guess I should do that review, but I might scare some people off since it’s in barren, lifeless shopping center that made me feel like Will Smith in «I am Legend. «
Besides, I’m a terrible filipino. I didn’t even go to med school. I went there with my girlfriend who kept asking me what stuff was while I answered, «Uh, I dunno, but you probably won’t like it.»
That said, I did walk away with a couple of packs of frozen lumpia.
(Well, I guess I can always post this as a review!)
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So there you go. If you’re Filipino (and haven’t already been sent here by some Auntie looking for sweet ketchup or banana leaves), you should check this place out. If you’re not Filipino, but want a looksee, check it out as well. Don’t expect a giant store, but there are some freezers filled with frozen Filipino dishes and dry goods that you probably won’t find anywhere else. The prices aren’t bad either. So when you get a day off from the hospital, load up your conversion van, and head to Manila Mart. The lumpia itself is worth the trip.