Western Pacific Filipino Grocery

This grocery has everyone one needs to cook authentic filipino food! I LOVE IT!!! Green Papaya… YES Marungay Leaves… YES Lemon Grass… YES!!! Thank you for being here :)

Yam leaves, Bittermelon, Filipino Eggplants… Oh my! I come here to make sinigang and sinigang I make. Marvelous!

This is the only place where I can find asian vegetables that Ranch 99 usually doesn’t offer. It’s a small, typical mom n’ pop store; same kind that I remember going to as a small child tagging along with my parents and picking out small snacks that I would want them to buy for me.
I believe the owners are 2^nd-​generation with now the children running the store. They’re really friendly and have been selling here for for years on end. I’m glad that they’re an available source for those hard-​to-​find items. I’m sure a lot of filipino’s and also asians in general are somewhat thankful to have your store around.

Given how small and its location, this store has all the southeast Asian essentials to make a solid meal, including fresh vegetables. Came here dried green mangoes, came out with a whole bag of groceries.

Whenever I have my Filipino craving for sweets, I go here! They have all the authentic foods that you would find in a typical Filipino house. The owners are always very personable and friendly.

My brother and I come here so often, the staff tries striking up a conversation! They’re undeniably friendly but I’m a bit of an introvert though, hehe.
They sell all types of filipino bakery goodies. I love, love, love pan de ube! It’s a type of sweet bread. They also carry Goldilocks. I can’t help myself with the mango drinks. They’ll even let you buy an entire case at a discount if you ask.

Family run grocery store with fresh produce and rare filipino goodies that may be hard to find anywhere else. Craving balout? You got it! Searching for calamansi? Done! Fresh malongai leaves? Best believe that! I mean, seriously, what don’t they have? There’s saluyout, squash blossoms, bean leaves, chili leaves, and a bunch of other leaves that I don’t know what to do with. This is the trader joes of the Filipino community. The owner is super friendly, knowledgable and is my new go to guy for Filipino groceries. The best part is, I’m not even filipino. Love supporting the mom and pops!

Awesome little grocery store in a strip mall.
They have all sorts of filipino snacks, baked goods, frozen items, fresh fruits & veggies. Clarita’s filipino food is right next door if you want some hot/​prepared filipino food.
The reason I came here though… BALUT!
Not something easily found in the US. I am so glad that I found a place that sells it.

Great Filipino market. Very friendly. Family owned :). Wish they had a wider, variety of selection but it is a small store. It’s important to support our mama papa shops in the community :).

Small but plentiful! I like this little shop. It is usually packed with snack food items like dried mangos, dried plums, and tamarind candies. There are a variety of drinks and food items to choose from. I visit every few weeks to check out new foodie items and to pick up snacks.

This is where i get my calamansi drink on yo!

Cute little store for all the goodies you may want if you don’t have family visiting ‘back home’ coming back with pasalubong.
The hubby was in his childhood chocolate craze– flat tops, champorado, choco biscuits… I had to stop him otherwise he’d easily fill up a balikbayan box for himself!
They also have FRESH veggies that’ll be awesome for cooking (mom and dad would be proud: P) This is definitely the ‘sari sari’ store to go to :)

Small little gem that has all my favorite hard to find Filipino items! Butong pakwan (the salty, soggy Filipino kind, not the sweet Chinese kind), Chippy and other snacks that bring back memories from childhood, and CHAMPORADO! After not being able to find champorado (before I found out about this place), I attempted to make it myself and I quite prefer the instant kind better, haha, so I’m glad I now found a place that sells it!
And for you balut lovers, they have it too ;)

Great customer service from John!

Hmmmm… well what can i say about Western Pacific… it’s pretty much one of the best things that could happen to Sunnyvale since sliced bread! I’m not a big fan of those super huge Asian Supermarkets that mark items up beyond belief and never carry those hard to find items that i usually look for. Western Pacific is definitely not that!!! When i go to Western Pacific, I’m always sure to find fresh produce, fish, and otehr hard to find items. Oh and did i mention i love the sapin sapin and fresh warm carioka for a treat! (just make sure you come in Tuesday at noon or after to get em while they are fresh!!)
As for the veggies, i know the owner’s son goes to the market at least 3 – 4 times a week and gets them fresh, literally packages them right there on the spot, and puts them on the shelves. EVERYTHING IS ALWAYS FRESH! AND THAT’S VERY IMPORTANT TO ME. THIS IS WHAT A GROCERY STORE SHOULD BE! Not a huge 24 isle supermarket, where you walk around for 1 hour trying to find all of your ingredients while constantly being bombarded by adds telling you to buy other stuff that isn’t even on your grocery list. When i go to Western Pacific, I’m in and out and i have a great conversation while I’m there.
Also, even though I’ve never needed to do so, I know that you can special order hard to find or bulk items. If you are Filipino or cook for Filipino’s then this is seriously the place to go for your grocery items! Oh did i mention… you can special order a whole pig «lechon» for any occasion as well!!! YUMMMY!!!

Located in a strip mall in the outskirts of Sunnyvale, this little Filipino grocery store has actually a lot of goods in store. My mother is actually friends with the family who owns it (eh, that doesn’t give them a star either) and I think the whole famfily (two kids and their dad) is tending to the store. Very nice people, they’re very friendly and accommodating.
This grocery store indeed has a lot of Pinoy stuff (usually food) for sale BUT the space wasn’t meant for that much. During a busy day, one can only hope to end up there with the nicer Filipinos who understand that the place can be crowded. You see, sometimes Filipinos cannot anticipate that other people may also want to check out that aisle… and there’s only 2 aisles.
What do they have in here? Well, saluyot, calamansi (seasonal), salted egg (red egg… not your father-in-law’s. Hehe), bagoong, Jufran ketchup, UFC ketchup, snacks, drinks, Eskinol, Likas Papaya… you get the picture.
The checkout counter is seemingly appropriate for the area of the store. If you plan to buy a lot of stuff from here, be patient with the checkout counter space. I am going to guestimate it at 12inx14in. That’s all the space you get for all your veggies and patis, etc. However, the owners (also cashiers) are pretty fast with ringing the customers up. I’m normally in and out there in a matter of minutes (unless there’s a crowd).
I’ll also have to say that they can be a little overpriced too. There’s another Asian supermarket near this store that has Pinoy goods and I think they sell for cheaper. Chinese-​owned, I believe. Will review next. Whenever I decide to shop at Western, I have to make sure I am able to afford at least $ 20 worth of Filipino goodies.
I’d give them 3.5 stars. 1.5 stars deducted from the space and price.
Fair enough?

Went for Ube (purple yam). They showed me how to find the good ones, and gave me tips on cooking them.

Level 4 ethnic grocery store adventurousness suggested.

Warning: this is going to have a lot of Filipino-​isms in it that might not make sense to some. For others, this will make total sense. ;-)
Growing up in Utah in the 80s, we didn’t have many reliable, plentiful Asian grocery stores like Ranch 99, Lion, Seafood City, or Marina Super like we do have in the Bay Area. So, we were stuck with going to smaller, mom and pop stores to get our fix of Asian vegetables and goods.
I’ve been to Western Pacific several times in the past, but after reading the story that was featured in the Mercury News over the summer, I knew exactly where I needed to head to after work. See, my family still calls the land o’ Mormon home, and while the number of Asian grocery stores have increased, there are some fruits and vegetables that they can’t get there. Since I’m not headed home for Thanksgiving, I decided to send them a care package with things that I knew that they would love to have; particularly some fresh veggies.
I walked-​in, and just as the smaller Asian grocery stores of my youth, so too is Western Pacific. The produce, here, is what you should come for. Wow. They had some tiny, skinny talong (eggplant) that were about seven to eight inches long that looked so good, I bought some for myself. I also picked up a pound of fresh kalamansi (the Filipino version of limes) that smelled so sweet. I picked up a bunch of kamote (yam) leaves, and maulunngay leaves (don’t know what the English translation of that one would be).
Needless to say, everything was fresh, and was like going to a farmer’s market. This place totally does justice to what produce SHOULD be like, and especially the produce of mah peeps!
It’s a total sari-​sari (a shop with lots of different, random things) transported to the middle of Sunnyvale. I found it charming that:
— the owner was talking to a customer about politics and why Obama won.
— the owner had kids my age behind the counter that were playing a card game, and had to move their deck of cards as I was checking out to use the scale.
— the smell of the store, while not for the western nose, was actually somewhat comforting to me – a mix of fresh fish and bagoong ;-)
One of the guys behind the counter after seeing my purchases even asked me what was I cooking for dinner. I didn’t want to get into the whole story of «I’m sending this USPS to my parents» so I agreed with him. Tinola for dinner everyone. That’s what I told him I had.
Make sure to check out the pics that I took of the veggies that I picked up, too!

Bought some manzanilla oil here in the hopes that it will alleviate some of my daughter’s gas. Also, picked up some cheeze curls for the wife and green mangoes for myself. Filipino stores are cool, aren’t they?
Anyway, this is a small Filipino market that sells groceries (including fruit), phone cards, and baked goods to name a few. It really helps the Filipino community having a store closer than your typical Seafood City. It’s a little far for me, but it’s the only place I found that had that oil.
BTW, for you moms and dads out there, the manzanilla oil didn’t help.