“New Filipinotown” is the informal name for the business area on South Vermont Avenue, just north of 3rd Street, where there is an abundance of Filipino restaurants, supermarkets, and food stores. This is NOT the formally designated section of Los Angeles called Historic Filipinotown, which is located east of this area.
Chicharon is a flavorful, melt-in-your-mouth crunchy treat that satisfies your most intense snack cravings. The Philippines has delicious flavors, textures and brands to please everybody. Visit Filipinotown in North Koreatown for a large selection of your favorite Filipino chicharon varieties. Satisfy your mouth-watering hunger!
Remember: Filipinos spell these cracklings as chicharon with one “r” whereas the Latinos use two r’s, as in chicharrones.
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.
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.
Used to be known as Viva Bargain Center Vermont.
A small, casual Philippine restaurant in the New Filipinotown area, on Vermont Avenue, just north of Third Street.
Filipino restaurant on the northwest corner of 3rd & Vermont in North Koreatown.
Check the hours and menu here. Adobo, Igado, Pinakbet, Sinigang…
A fire totally destroyed this store in the early hours of January 10 (Wednesday), 2018.
Filipino-American bakeshop that opened in 2014 in the former spot of Goldilocks in North Koreatown. It is owned by the same family that handled the Goldilocks franchise for decades.
Items for sale include Filipino classics like silvañas, sans rival, ube pastries, hopia, mango cakes, polvoron, mamon, and siopao. Brazo de Mercedes rolls and customized cakes such as red velvet can be ordered in advance.
A small Filipino eatery serving Chinese-influenced Philippine food items such as siopao, goto, mami, and siomai, as well as classic Pinoy dishes like pork adobo.
Chow King (Chowking) is a restaurant chain in the Philippines known for Chinese-Filipino food.