Thailand Plaza

We are liking this place a lot

Good size grocery store. Initially came here to eat upstairs, but it was closed for lunch during the week.
$ 5 minimum for validation of parking which is a little steep, but then again, a lot of behaviors and attitudes surprise me in this part of town.
Cashiers were super nice and friendly. And the attempt to make small talk in good English was impressive. Will come back to buy more tea.

I love Thai Town and I love Thailand Plaza. There is a bookstore, grocery store, and an upstairs restaurant. So its all good to park inside and pay a few bucks. Besides parking on the street is a pain.

The market has a large selection of spices and thai canned goods. The have produce and meats as well. There is also a section with dishes and pans and other sundry items. The store itself is rather dumpy and sort of dismal but the prices are good and they have stuff you can’t get at a Ralph’s or Whole Foods. The staff could be friendlier. i guess they are very friendly if you are a Thai housewife but if you aren’t you are invisible until the time when you go to pay and they will tell you the price and take your money.

Thailand Plaza is a two story plaza that is located in the heart of Thai Town.
Thai Town is pretty much a neighborhood of Los Angeles centered along Hollywood Boulevard between Normandie Avenue and Western Avenue in East Hollywood.
The area contains many Thai restaurants, markets and shops, including import stores, silk clothing stores and massage spas.
The plaza contains a supermarket, a book store, and a restaurant. So in total there are 3 places for you to visit in this plaza.
Silom Supermarket
Thai grocery store and supermarket. You can find many items imported from Thai land such as beverages (beer, teas etc.) toiletries (soap, shampoo etc.) cup noodles (MAMA the famous cup noodle brand from Thailand) and kitchen wear (pots, pans, eating utensils). I come here for buying Thai incense and black candles for praying (I’m Buddhist) (4 stars)
Dokya
A Thai version of Barnes and Noble pretty much but this place is pretty small. They have newspapers, books, magazines, music CD and movie DVD. Nice place to buy calling cards to Thailand. A very useful place to browse and read up to date news and magazines in Thai. (4 stars)
Thailand Plaza Restaurant
Suppose to be an authentic Thai restaurant on the second floor of the plaza (you have to walk up the stairs near the front of the Thai Plaza building). I have only tried this place once and I didn’t like it. Its more of a Karaōke place/​restaurant now but not authentic to my Thai taste buds. (²⁄₃ stars)
Overall I come here at least once a month to do so me Thai product shopping and reading at the bookstore. It’s great if you are accustomed to the Thai culture or food and you want to buy certain things from Thailand without flying there then hunny you come to the right place.

Southern California has Chinatown, Koreatown, Little Tokyo, Little Saigon, and yes, even Thai Town! Thailand Plaza, a two-​story shopping complex, is located in the heart of Thai Town on Hollywood Blvd, west of Hollywood & Highland and Highway 101. Thailand Plaza includes Silom Supermarket (
) and Dokya (
), a Thai book, music, and video store.
There really isn’t much to this place (or Thai Town really). The grocery store and bookstore are located on the ground level and there’s a restaurant (Thailand Plaza Restaurant:
) on the second level.
Silom Supermarket, which is named after a neighborhood and road in Bangkok, is sadly, a dismal grocery store. The market looks old and a bit dilapidated. The store carries a wide assortment of foods and products, but the selection and quality coudl be better. There’s hardly any produce to speak of and the meat department looks abandoned. I’m not sure if I want to eat the meats stored behind that counter. Other sections of the store, such as the kitchenware department, are more promising. One of the more peculiar items I saw stocked on the shelves were plastic containers, like mystery grab bags, filled with random nicknacks (toiletries, a cup of instant noodles, etc.) selling for $ 20 each. Who’s going to buy that?
Dokya is a nice bookstore for the Thai community. The entrance isn’t visible from Hollywood Blvd. You have to enter the parking garage in the back of the complex to find it. Dokya has a respectable selection of up-​to-​date Thai newspapers, magazines, books, movies, and music. They stock scandalous Thai gossip magazines and a funny comic my uncle used to translate to me as a kid. The shop isn’t very big, but it’s charming with hardwood floors and a clean public restroom to boot.
Parking can be hard to come by in Thai Town. Parking in the garage is validated if you purchased something from one of the on-​site businesses. There are other pay lots along Hollywood Blvd, but if you want to park for free, you can park along some of the residential side streets north and south of the main drag.

This place has great produce, great spice selection, and a really interesting meat section (you can buy blocks of congealed pigs blood — perfect for stir fries and soup.) I’m kind of partial to this market, since it’s where I bought my lovely mortar-​and-​pestle. And I enjoy the little deserts they cook on-​site.
They have huge, wholesale-​size bags of thai basil and holy basil!

Grocery store here is okay… could have more asian stuff, or be more stocked. I don’t think it was suppose to be an asian grocery store but I also didn’t know how they chose the random assortment of foods they sold. I don’t know how long it had been on the shelf either… okay the more I think about it. the more shady this place could be…