Island Pacific Supermarket

The Island Pacific Supermarket is a great store to purchase fresh seafoods and meats. It has all items a market provides like cooking oils, fruits and veggies, cereals, snacks and more. They have a lot of items that Filipinos uses in there own home such as certain sauces, cooking appliances, rice, asian snacks like chips, variety of peanuts and on. Island Pacific Supermarket provides cleaning and frying service for fishes bought in the store. The store has its own private parking lot. The store is medium size.

i totally dig the fried fish selection. milkfish. golden pampano. rabbit fish. moonfish. golden thread. rex sole. smelt fish. squid. so many more. i used to live near here and relied a lot on this place for my fish addiction.

This place stinks.. . literally, but I’m not going to lie I’ll probably be back. The fish section (which you would think would be the stinkiest section) actually looks pretty decent. The produce looks okay. A nice variety of Filipino toiletries.

They do not have pride in what they do. The place is disorganized, unclean and smells bad. Staff isn’t rude or anything but they are not friendly.

Tiny parking lot and the whole place smells like dried fish. You don’t come here for the vast selection. If you shop here, you’re looking for something specific that you can’t find at your local grocery store.
Specializes in Asian specific ingredients and products.

1) There is (limited) Parking. But it can get crowded after work hours and weekends… prepare to play Tetris with cars.
2) Fresh Fish. Love the Fish selection, especially the Tuna/​Salmon Belly.
3) Vegetables well priced. Eggplant, Taro, Yucca Root, are good price compared to VONS.
4) Lots of Asian and Latin spices.
5) Fresh meat selection is great… including rare cuts and pieces (tounge/​liver/​blood)
THE BAD:
1) Sometimes their chicken are near expiration or been frozen, then defrosted.
Suggestion to store:
They should just cook and sell the near expired meat (like Ranch 99)… instead of trying to sell them in its last few days and selling us nearly rotten chicken meat.

I rarely write negative reviews but dont go to this place. They sell expired goods as well as expired meat. I just found out when i got home. I returned all the goods i bought. This place is crap. No manager on site what the hell!!! I couldnt complain more

Best place to go for fresh good fish. It’s kind of fun to be able to pick it out of the ice like you’re picking fresh fruit. They also have some great meat and pork products; hoofs, feet, butt, liver, everything.
Besides the meat and seafood you can also find other delicious treats such as cookies, and where else can you get Chi Tea Ice Cream?

This Island Pacific (there’s another one a couple of miles south on Vermont, which is a bit strange!) is convenient walking distance from my apartment, which is good — because they have a parking lot, but it’s a overcrowded and difficult to maneuver around.
I’m a newbie to both Filipino food and to cooking fish at home. So far, the only thing I’ve been brave enough to buy here is the salmon steaks (on multiple occasions.) But if you catch them on sale here, the prices are *great* ($ 3/​lb for thick, tasty, bone-​in steaks.) But the interesting, extensive, and well-​priced fish department makes me very much want to expand my culinary horizons! (The only place I’ve seen a better deal on fish is a crazy sale for 89 cents/​pound whole cleaned tilapia at Super King. .. but that’s a review for another day.)
You don’t have to be a fish lover to appreciate the produce deals you can get here. I regularly find FIVE POUNDS of onions for $ 1, and I’ve gotten great prices on citrus fruits, spinach, baby bok choy, squash, ginger, etc. The fresh produce department is small, but the prices are excellent, and the quality is good. (General rule: when buying produce from cheap stores, you have to generally use it sooner than you would buying from the farmer’s market or a more expensive place, as it spoils faster.)
Another bonus: cheap coconut milk! You can regularly find cans of coconut milk for 99 cents here. You can also get really good deals on condiments like fish sauce, soy sauce (so many kinds of soy sauce!), vinegars, etc. I bought a great dumpling dipping sauce here, too.
Island Pacific: Come for the salmon steaks, stay for the 15 cents a piece onions!
Bonus: they’re usually playing Filipino pop music over the radio. But last time I was there, in mid-​August, they were playing «What Child Is This?» What???

This place is my choice when it comes to grocery shopping. I love this place! It has everything that I need to prepare a good Filipino meal. The cool thing about this place is that the meat is always fresh. The meat butchers behind the counters will cut or slice your meats however way you ask them to. They also have a great selection of fresh seafood to choose from. At your request, they can deep fry your fish for you while you shop. This supermarket is always clean and the cashiers are great!

I am soooooo excited that I found this place. Cheap, fresh tons of choice for meat and fish. Best in the area… otherwise you would have to go to VONS (gross old) or Gelsons (Money)…I will be back! I will definitely note that there are heads on fish/​shrimp and they have lots of meat «cuts» that you might not find in a normal supermarket… but if you aren’t squeamish about that stuff it is great!

This place is okay if you’re looking for those «special» Filipino ingredients like pig intestines and cow blood. other than that, it’s smells like a sh*thouse door on a tuna boat. It stinks so bad in there.

I’m one of the few Caucasians that love bagoong on my rice and other foods. And I found out the hard way that it’s nothing like any other kind of Asian shrimp paste. So my Pinoy friend, Paula, told me where to find it.
The parking lot is very small and poorly laid out but I was lucky to get the last available spot. Inside, it’s not very large for a supermarket. They have a nice meat and poultry case although no one was there to help the people waiting for service even after ringing the bell many times. Luckily I found what I needed prepackaged. (Beef liver for the dog).
They have an excellent selection of whole fish and other sea foods, although the eyes are not as clear as I’d like to buy whole fresh fish. They will even fry it for you while you wait.
They have all kinds of Filipino goodies and specialties on the aisles and in the freezer cases. In addition to sweet bagoong I picked up a bibingka mix (rice cake) and banana leaves, vinegar chicharones and some shrimp crackers. Cantalope was 20 cents a pound and I got a bag of fresh ginger for a dollar. Mexican papaya is 59 cents/​pound. Let’s have a party!
There are many other foods I’d like to try, but I’ll check out Seafood City down the street to see if I like it better before coming back.

Of all the Filipino markets i’ve been to this is the cleanest one! I don’t know maybe cause its still new, but everything is well organized and well stocked they don’t carry a lot of variety of most stuffs but it seems like they focus on all Filipino necessities unlike other stores that carries the same stuff that you can find in Ralph’s. The prices are reasonable and the fry fish here too!
One thing i didn’t like is that when i was paying the cashier got a phone call from her cellphone and she started talking and she’s trying to talk to me at the same time. Its just wrong so she ended up asking her fellow employee to take over. bad bad bad…

If I was just rating the fish portion of the market, I’d give it 5 stars. This is NOT the fish market for you if you normally buy your fish at a store like Ralphs — here, the fish is whole, and dead, and glaring at you from their icy resting places. You do not point to the pretty fillets behind the glass and the nice fishmonger handles and packages it for you, leaving your hands smelling like roses. You damn well pick up the fish yourself, possibly with tongs, more likely with one of the clean plastic bags you get off the rolls.
The fish is super fresh (smells like fish, not fishy, the eyes are bright, the flesh firm) the floors are clean (trust me, this is not always true of small fish markets), variety is good (I’ll try and get a count next time I go) the place is well-​lit, and prices are right. The best thing about this market though? They list the provenance/​origin of almost all of their fish. If you try to buy fish responsibly as I do, it’s generally difficult to find out whether that catfish is from America (a best choice!) or from Vietnam (eco villain). Before IP I either had to resign myself to not knowing, or drag myself to Whole Foods and get totally ripped off. Why should rich hippies be the only ones to be able to buy fish knowledgeably?
But now I have Island Pacific and I can buy that cod knowing it’s from the Pacific and not from the Atlantic, without going broke.
Some tips: the men behind the counter will generally answer your questions about the fish, you just have to be patient. You can ask for the fish to be cleaned, cut into pieces, or filleted; and they will even fry it for you if that’s what you want.
The reason IP got knocked down a star is because the rest of the market is only average. I get the feeling that the aisles could be better utilized, there’s a lot of stuff missing that I would generally expect to find in an Asian market. A-​Grocery in Echo Park has a better produce and aisle selection. But the fish market at IP is unbeatable, and is more than enough reason for me to go to this market on an almost weekly basis.