King’s Seafood Center

I just went to this store today and I was not impressed at all! first thing that I didnt like was the sanitation. I wanted to buy a pig legs because my friend told me that king seafood carries them. To make the long story short I happened go in the far back where butchers are and I saw meats in the basket with holes and of course the meats is also touching the dirty floor. The butcher was mad at me because why I go close to where the meats are. I change my mind not to buy the meat that I wanted. However, i bought vegetables because I feel that they are cheaper. And then when I was about to pay the cashier told me that I cant use my credit card as my total cost was under 15 dollars so I had to go back to look for something just to make it 15 $. I went back to the cashier and still under 30 cents under 15. Cashier was mad and talk thier own language. The worst thing she did was not put putting my items in the bag. She is so rude when I told her that «You didnt put my groceries in the bag but you force me to buy things that I didnt want» and she murmured. I wont coming anymore to this store! dirty and ugly mean cashiers!!!

Pros:
— Location: there are a lot of Asian markets in and around the South Bay, however, Ranch 99 & Marina Markets are all located either between Stevens Creek & Homestead or end of HWY 237 near Milpitas or Fremont. THIS is where King’s Seafood becomes really convenient location-​wise if living near Sunnyvale.
— Pricing: not everything is cheap, but there are two things ALONE worth the trip to this store. 1. SHRIMPS: $ 4.99/lbs (THIS was the prices 5 – 6 years ago! R99 & Marina may occassionally on sales at this price temporarily, it’s EVERYDAY price here!), 2. Beef Short Ribs: R99 & Marina charging $ 10.99/lb, even higher at Korean markets like Hankook or Galaria, it’s $ 3.99/lb EVERYDAY!
Cons:
— Services (or lack of): ladies are never smiling, always long faces it seems, but like if the girl’s pretty, my tolerance for her bitchiness goes up, right? Similarly, I really couldn’t care, get my shrimps & Korean short ribs, and I’m out of there.
— Sizes: kind of small, & Vietnamese-​owned, so the varities aren’t quite as other larger Asian market chains understandably

I am giving poor review into this king’s seafood sunnyvale. Staff here are very rude and no business ethics. They are all frowny and unfriendly to the customers. I went with my mom to buy some fish here today, she want to use the restroom real quick. We went to ask the cashier ladies if we can borrow the keys to them but they both ignore us. Maybe they cannot speak the english. I thought if you are a customer to the supermarket we are allow to use the restroom. My mom is a loyal customer to this market but what happen here today is all disappointment. She told me not to coming back to this place anymore. I even told her just go to either lions or ranch supermarket they are friendly people.

this place sucks, if you are gonna have a minimum amount before you take credit cards, you should make it known with a sign. went here to buy a couple of items and didnt realize there is a 20 dollar min. anyways, so i walked around the aisles and couldnt find anything worth buying, so i just left the fish and pork some where along the aisles and walked out. oh well

It’s cheap but not too cheap that it is worthed to spend you money here. It’s dirty, staff are just not mannered especially in cashier department. Cashiers talk to another person with their own dialect while serving you. In short, they are rude! And to think that the guy that this cashier was talking is their manager. I will not come back here anymore.

I stopped by here after work since it’s the closest Asian market. I was looking to grab some meat and veggies for dinner, but left empty handed. Nothing in there looked fresh and the selection wasn’t that great compared to other Asian markets that I frequent. I will most likely never come back. I gave them 2 stars because the prices were good.

Old style asian market like chinatown cheaper than ranch 99 .59 for bunch green onions vs .99 for ranch 99 dirty low rent district if u shop at whole foods or safeway this place isnt for u. English not native language for owners or most customers

It seems that most people either love it or hate it here haha. For me, I didn’t like the quality of the Sea Bass Fillets I bought here and it wasn’t all that cheap either. However, I couldn’t find it anywhere else so an extra star for that… I guess I just won’t cook sea bass anymore.

Since I live now in sunnyvale, the Asian market that’s very close to my house is this market. I like the fact that they cater a lot of food /​export from my country. The only thing that I didn’t like is when I go to vegetable section I smells a rat pee or stinky smell. I’ve been to other Asian market but I never smelled anything like that. I’m skeptic to buy the veggies so I have to go to other place to buy it. I hope they can improve on this.

Dirty place inside.
Rude cashiers and bunch of thugs running the fish section. PASS

My mom comes when she needs to buy seafood in bulk. Since she buys it by the case, she talks to the owner and gets a discount. I’m sure you can get seafood for cheaper in SF Chinatown but for the South Bay area, this is probably one of the best deals for fresh seafood.
They seem to have a lot of interesting, hard-​to-​get meat parts and Asian ingredients. Having grown up in the 626 in SoCal, I don’t mind the sticky floors or the funky smells as long as the food is fresh and the price is cheap!

What a local gem. I discovered this market on a bike ride. The other day I checked it out. And they have all things asian. Like a small ranch 99. I say check them out.

Love buying apples, pears, & certain items here. The apples & pears are huge majority of the time. Unlike other places charging a small sized apple and calling it large apple & charging it as a large apple. Korean pears also at safeway small pears in a plastic container charging you like $ 6 for 4 small pears. Insane right? So I prefer getting my fruits especially here Workers are nice & friendly to me & my baby girl. Its not a huge market, but I’m able to get lots of things here for a cheap to affordable price. The meat/​seafood workers are helpful and nice too.
***They accept CREDIT CARDS, but you need to spend at least $ 15

If you are looking for fresh fish, good quality and cheap prices… there it is! Very nice place… its not dirty as people are saying and cmom, use you good sense folks: you are going to a seafood market, dont expect a place smelling like body & bath works!!!
Some of these review are really funny!!!
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I’m not one to throw out 1 star reviews lightly. I think they can be very damaging to businesses, and I feel a bit guilty about writing this one. I’ve been to this place a few times, and if not for my last trip to this market, this would have been a 3 star review. However, I saw what I saw, and I feel it’s something I need to write about.
On my last visit here, I came for the purpose of buying live dungeness crabs. However, when I took a look at the tanks, they looked empty. I ask one of the guys working behind the counter if they’re all out and he says yes. Then he pauses for a second and asks how many I want. I say two and he’s like ok. Ok? I thought you just said you were out. Anyway we walk over to this plastic tub that looked like a holding tank for the crabs. He grabs some tongs and digs around, then flinches and looks at his hand and then the tongs. He then proceeds to get two crabs for me and bags them.
This is where the review gets ugly. The guy puts pressure on his hand, and I can see blood is coming out. So what does he do? He runs his hand through the crab tank to wash off the blood. Yes, the same tank that the live crabs are in. Completely unacceptable. That’s a serious health violation, and something I cannot simply overlook.
In most other regards, this place is what you can expect from an Asian market. Cheap produce and not the cleanest establishment. A small annoyance here is the $ 20 debit/​credit card minimum. But the bottom line is that after seeing one of the employees contaminate the live seafood with blood, I don’t see how I can give this market anything other than a 1 star review.

This is weird reviewing an Asian market out of nowhere but hands down this is THE best nearby market. I’ve been coming here since I was 5 and the staff is the same, the owner is the same, and the prices are the same… cheap and great selection of Asian groceries. Oh and they just remodeled the store with new casings and such. Anyway, it’s a friendly neighborhood store that’s been serving the Sunnyvale community for a longggg time. It’s definitely my favorite Asian market! Small, friendly, packing a great variety of groceries!

Pos:
+ this place is cheap for its current location.
Neg:
–the place like most other Asian market, except Korean grocery stores, are dirty! messy, and over stock stuff that shouldn’t be there. Also, smelly… not sure they ever clean their stores?
–parking is a joke: beware asian drivers !! they dont care where you are at all. Also, very hard to find parking even they have own lot.
Overall, I am forced to drive my parents for they want asian ingredients to cook. Otherwise, they should inspect this place before I consider walk in!

This place is kinda dirty and smelly, but it’s a great hole in the wall Asian Market to get the nitty gritty stuff at!!! LOL
They sell freshly cut chicken bones & gizzards with some meat barely hanging on for $ 1.25/bag cheap. We use it for crabbing bait, some cooks use it for stock or broth.
They also sell Balut!!! The «good» ones. Not yet the furry chicken and beak, but mostly the meaty goodness ;-)
The cashiers don’t speak English very well, but it OK. I’m in and out quickly…

We just discovered King’s Seafood last summer. I’m glad we did.
This place is no 99 Ranch. It’s a small grocery store that’s not easily seen from the street. I suspect they get most of their customers by word of mouth. However, it offers just about everything one needs to cook a good Chinese meal. You just won’t find a lot of choices.
The vegetables are fresh and similarly priced to 99 Ranch. I find the fruit to be lacking, however; for example, the apples always seem to be bruised and mealy.
The meat counter has a good variety of cuts that are typically used in Asian dishes. I’m a little put off by its appearance, though. It isn’t the most sanitary-​looking areas. I always thoroughly clean and cook all the meats that I get from any Asian grocery, so I try not to let it bother me so much, but I can see how others would really be turned off. I have not yet tried the seafood, but that’s mainly because my palate doesn’t go much beyond salmon, tuna, dover sole, and breaded fish sticks.
One nice thing is that it also has a small selection of Filipino baked goods, produced by a couple of the local Filipino bakeries. It’s nice to be able to get a package of pan de leche and pan de ube without driving out to Daddy Dough.
Checking out has a bit of a wild west feel to it. Because of the crowded nature of the store and the orientation of the registers, orderly lines don’t always form. It’s also a low-​tech operation — no bar code scanners — and when I first started shopping there I was a bit leery about whether things were being rung up correctly. Remarkably, however, I have yet to see anything amiss, even though the cashiers are entering prices from memory.
Anyways, I would rate this store higher if its fruit selection were better and if it were a bit cleaner. But I still enjoy shopping here. It has a nice neighborhood grocery sort of feel, which is sadly becoming a rarity in our megastore world.

Cheap cheap seafood in a dirty lil Asian market. They have other groceries too. Really though, if I liked to cook fresh crab and such, I’d go here to get it. They sell it live so you know it’s fresh. I rarely cook seafood though… only salmon. I think I need a steamer pot maybe and then I would. lol
Won’t see ya there.