Jacques I.
Yelp
I was happy to find a Filipino market where I can buy hot food items, since mom's cooking is too far from home. But unfortunately, mom's cooking was not even close to the food I ate here. I ordered Pork Adobo, Bihon Pancit, Caldera, Pork Lumpia, Palabok, Cassava Cake and Ube Cake.
The pork adobo was verrrrrry fatty. There was hardly any actual meat on the pieces of pork belly, as all of it seemed to be fat. And it was drenched in oil and lard, making it worse. The Bihon Pancit was super dry, and was obvious that it was left out all day without it being tossed or anything. Also, since the texture of the noodles were so dry I couldn't even taste any flavor since I was distracted by how crusty they were. Same with the Pork Lumpia - it seemed to be dried out, as if it was under a heat lamp all day. Because of so, all I could taste was dry and crunchy pork inside. The Ube Cake tasted so dry that I took one bite and had to spit it out. Fortunately, I had better luck with the Cassava Cake which had a nice coconut flavor, but again, was very dry. The only items that I found tolerable were the Caldera, which had pork, carrots, peas in a tomato sauce and was luckily, not dry and the Palabok, which had good flavor and some ground meat in it, despite the dried out hard boiled eggs. Filipino food is hard to find around the Seattle area, but would not recommend coming here for your fix. In general, the food seemed to be left out all day under heat lamps, drying out everything and it's obvious once you start to eat it.
The market is very small, including its parking lot. There was only one cashier working here, and on a Saturday afternoon, the place was busy so the long line extended into the other room. The cashier seemed to be the owner, as she recognized returning customers and were chatting with all of them, which I thought was cool. Since this is a Filipino grocery - there are a lot of specialty items here, native to the Philippines; but given my experience with the hot food items and its location, I can't say I'd be willing to come back.