Filipino food in Koreatown LA — where to find haluhalo, pandesal, lumpia, pancit palabok, bibingka and other Pinoy treats? Likely in the area informally referred to as the New Filipinotown in North Koreatown (Vermont Avenue, just north of 3rd Street) where there are many eateries serving Philipine cuisine, bakeshops that focus on pandesal and cakes and pastries with well-loved island flavors like ube, mango and macapuno, as well as Filipino grocery stores that carry many ingredients from the tropics.
A few blocks from there, you can order a roasted suckling pig from Eva’s Lechon.
Top food picks if you can find them: Curly Tops, Crunchies, calamansi juice, Filipino chicharon, ube-macapuno cake, pastries like hopia, polvoron, junk-food snacks like Chippy, “exotic” ingredients like kaong and nata de coco, Boy Bawang cornicks, banana ketchup
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By the Wiltern Theater on Western Avenue, south of Wilshire Boulevard. You can enter via Western or Oxford Avenue.
December 2019: Fresh Christmas trees available for sale inside and by the parking entrance on Western Avenue
Red Ribbon is a Filipino bakeshop that’s a popular franchise in the Philippines.
This location in North Koreatown does NOT serve meals like pancit palabok; it only sells cakes, breads and pastries to take home, such as pandesal, mamon, empanadas, ube macapuno cakes, mango sponge rolls, and ensaymada.
A small, casual Philippine restaurant in the New Filipinotown area, on Vermont Avenue, just north of Third Street.
Regular Hours: 8:00 am to 8:00 pm
Seafood City is a chain of Filipino grocery stores. This branch is located in North Koreatown / New Filipinotown on Vermont Avenue, just north of Third Street. Carries Filipino ice cream (mellorine), bottled bagoong, halo-halo ingredients, and chicharon.
Usually open Monday to Sunday, 8:00 am – 9:00 pm.
The old Gaju Market on the northeast corner of 5th & Western is back!
Filipino restaurant on the northwest corner of 3rd & Vermont in North Koreatown.
Check the hours and menu here. Adobo, Igado, Pinakbet, Sinigang…
Filipino fast-food chain restaurant with many outlets around the world. This branch on Beverly Boulevard is just northeast of Koreatown proper. (Yelp refers to this area as East Hollywood.)
Specializes in roasting whole pigs and chickens Filipino-style.
Must order about three to five days in advance. Cash payment only. Upon pick up.
A hit during Thanksgiving!
Source for Filipino food just northeast of Koreatown proper in the area Yelp refers to as Westlake.
Menu includes Pancit, Crispy Pata and Kare-Kare.