Tagalog

Tagalog in Koreatown Los Angeles… Places in Ktown LA where the Philippine language is spoken. Tagalog is the basis of the Filipino language.

Learn Tagalog because there are at least 25 million native speakers of Tagalog in the world, and about another 75 million who speak it with near fluency.

Tagalog is the sixth most-spoken language in the United States. Many Filipinos reside in Los Angeles, particularly in Koreatown, which is adjacent to Historic Filipinotown.

A concentration of Filipino and Filipino-American businesses can be found on Vermont Avenue, just north of Third Street.

* Note that the Philippines has more than a hundred languages, and Tagalog is just one of the eight major ones widely spoken. In fact, the Koreatown-located restaurant Pampanga Grill features the cuisine of the province of Pampanga, which has its own distinct language called Kapampangan.

Jollibee on Beverly

Address: 3821 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90004
Phone: (323) 906-8617

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.)

Seafood City: Filipino Supermarket

Address: 138 S Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90004
Phone: (213) 365-9100

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.

Red Ribbon Bake Shop

Address: 138 S. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90004
Phone: (213) 380-0864

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.

DJ Bibingkahan

Address: 188 S Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90004
Phone: (213) 351-9725

A small, casual Philippine restaurant in the New Filipinotown area, on Vermont Avenue, just north of Third Street.