Johnny Air Mart

Good place to stock up on your Filipino ingredients. They have many different types of frozen longanisa and they sell I’ve icecream and banana ketchup! Little pricey for something’s but that’s to be expected. When I go the staff is always very helpful and knowledgable.

Makes everything convenient! I don’t have to go to queens to have dinner or grocery shop! Maraming salamat po!

We stopped in here to look at the Filipino groceries and to get a quick snack. Love the selection. We got some warm siapoa that had egg plus pork/​chicken. Only $ 2! They also had some prepared foods in sauces. We also got some nutcrackers for two dollars. The frozen selection was good (ube, buko, and mango) ice cream, but it was a little more pricey ($ 7 – 10)

So nice to find a Filipino grocery store and not have to travel out to Queens. Was able to buy a couple pre-​made meals, tocino, longanisa, a few Filipino snacks. They also had fresh calamansi juice made, which was so nice on the hot day that I went. The owner of the shop seemed very nice.
However, I was very upset when I found out that the pan de sal that I bought had mold on it the next day! Did not even get to eat one. I had to throw the whole bag away…

I came here to mail a package to the Philippines. It’s not cheap, and, it would have been nice to know that it was preferable to mail clothing and other such items in a bag. Live and learn.
Very helpful, will probably be coming back to mail other packages. A safe way to get the package out to the provinces. And, they had some pretty good Filipino snacks.

Nice guy running the shop and a great resource. $ 4.99 for a 4-​pack of Magnolia frozen dessert bars ($ 10 CC minimum and prices set @ $ 0.99 means a large carton of magnolia is still under the threshold).

Unfriendly and unprofessional workers, way too over price, not much food selection and most of it are frozen that needed to be reheated. The meat and bread of the siopao was raw. It was disgusting; i threw it away after one bite.

Great filipino grocery store, awesome selection of unique snacks as well as some cheap, authentic prepared filipino foods to-​go. Family owned and operated, this is the type of place that makes the East Village special. Please support it!

You probably don’t know this place or need anything from here if you’re not «Pinoy.“Or you’re tied to one.
This is the Manhattan’s only Filipino convenience store/​mart/​cargo and money remittance center rolled into one, and inconveniently located in Alphabet City.
They sell prepared food like Dinuguan, kare-​kare, Mechado etc. on the main floor. While they accept orders of (they don’t deliver) party platters on special occasions and holidays. You can pre-​order Lumpiang Shanghai (fried spring roll), Pancit Bihon (stir fry noodles) and of course Lechon (roast pork). They sell frozen tocino and longanisa if you don’t have time to marinate meat. Canned food is also available here. Hot snacks or sitseryas are available if you’re hungry.
The basement is the cargo/​money remittance office. The services are comparatively cheaper than competitors and you get to take free «balik-​bayan» boxes.
The staff are knowledgable with their products and services.
Probably a best time to brush up with your Tagalog with them. I could come here often if it’s not so out of way from where I live.

This is where I buy fried tuyo and dried pusit. Also found this site with complete list of filipino stores & restaurants in New York.

Good for dry and canned Asian goods. I get my hook up of spring roll skins, bed thread noodles, dried mango and other exotic canned goods. They have a lot of sweets, steamed buns, prepared food for sale but I haven’t been that adventurous. Sometimes I’m not sure how long the items have been there. On weekends they roast an entire pig and sell the meat. It apparently sells out by lunch.

Introduced to this place by my filipino buddy. The guys behind the register seemed like they were probably the owners — very laid back and friendly. Lots of ready to eat, homemade goodies in the front. We bought some sweet filipino sausages, taro bread, and sweet cakes. The mark up is a bit high but everything is delicious and authentic. If I’m in the area again I’d definitely swing by for more groceries!

I think this place is ok when buying canned or dry goods… but I went here to pick up ready made food for a quick dinner… we selected three different items (kare kare, caldereta, and sinigang…
EVERYTHING HAD MOLD ON IT. Obviously that meant it had been sitting around for a while… who knows how old those things were.
Needless to say I was more than pissed off. Plus this place is on Ave A which means that it was quite a walk from the subway… not to mention that it’s pretty expensive.
So terribly disappointed in their ready made foods. do NOT get anything pre-​made from them… better stick to the canned or dried goods.

I usually don’t support flip establishments cuz they rip everyone off… especially other flips. At least that’s what my mom told me.
If this bootleg bodega wasn’t right across the street from Drop Off Service and if I wasn’t drunk as fuck, I would never have entered it.
Its got lots of packaged flip food, frozen stuff, flip snacks, flip drinks, and flip fruits.
Now, whenever I’m sitting by the Drop Off Service bar window, I gotz to cross the street and grab some garlic pork skin to complement my London Pride draft beers.
Sick, right?

It’s got almost everything I need. The best part is that they also sell cooked food already. Super convenient for those times when I don’t have the time to cook. Hopefully, one of these days, I’ll be able to buy some lechon from them.
Disappointed they don’t sell Tortillos though :) But it’s all good. Have to stop myself everytime though from simply throwing everything in my basket. It’s not cheap, shopping here. But it’s the closest Filipino grocery near me that’s easy to get to so not going is not an option.

Was really disappointed when several Filipino restaurants in Manhattan closed last year. Lo and behold, Johnny Air arrived! It has all the basic essentials to cook your own Filipino food (sinigang packets, pancit of every kind, frozen longganisa, bagoong, etc) and heaps of reasonably priced ready made stuff for under $ 5.
The main reason I give it 5 stars is Johnny Air also has a reputable courier service to several places in the Philippines. I’ve had care packages stolen or opened when sent by the local postal office and one of my colleagues was bribed 2500 Pesos ($ 50US) by a PI postal worker standing under a «we do not bribe» sign so she could get t-​shirts from the states. So sad :(I’ve even spent $ 130 to send something safely via UPS!
His courier service does door-​to-​door service for $ 5 extra and delivers by the pound (as cheap as $ 3.49/ pound) depending on how fast you want it to get there. My family got their Christmas presents safe and sound… and early (what Filipino time?!). The store was even kind enough to stay open late so I could do some grocery shopping after I mailed my packages.
Get your hopia and balikbayan (return boxes to the PI) on here. Plus they have the ever popular TFC playing downstairs.
Home away from home :)

When I moved to NYC from SF last fall I was determined to cook food that would make me miss home less. All the markets I found were in the outer boroughs, except this one …
I made my way out here and must say that from the UWS it is quite the trek. The place is actually a lot smaller than it looked in the pictures, which is mainly because they have a huge mirrored type wall at the back end of the store — which I almost ran into while there =X.
They have all the bare necessities that you’d need to make your general dishes, various snacks, and condiments (i.e. jufran, spicy vinegar). But something that they don’t have, that I end up having to scour Chinatown for was produce.
I always end up spending $ 100+ on each of my visits here, which can be a bit rough on the wallet but Filipino food is a MUST.
In the end I give this place 4 stars because it is one place I can go to get 99% of the items I need to make the dishes my soul craves.

SOOOOO glad we have a Filipino market in Manhattan. This means I dont have to drag my car-​less, non-​unlimited Metrocard ass out to Queens.
I wanted to find Magnolia ice cream after trying it for the first time in Hawaii. And low and behold, they had the big tubs! It’ll set you back $ 6.49 for about 1 Quart, but it’s worth it.
I’ll have to go back and try the other Filipino delicacies.

This place is a hidden gem. Come by on Saturdays and get pork buns, chicken buns, oxtail stew, shu mai, BBQ pork kebabs, roasted fish, noode dishes, etc.
It’s practically a Filipino restaurant.

Filipino convenient store in Manhattan?! I am sold!
As I was walking up Avenue A, I randomly made eye contact with a filipino man sweeping the floor inside this small little store. So, I decided to check out his store, only to find out there was a treasure of filipino goods and groceries inside! I was so amazed to have found this place. I usually make random treks to Queens to satisfy my Filipino food cravings.
This place has all the filipino cooking essentials, including all the ingredients for Halo-​halo (sweet filipino dessert) and sweet bread rolls. They even have frozen foods for you to heat up at home. I bought a couple of those because I never have time to go grocery shopping and have the pleasure of making good-​olé filipino food. They have kare-​kare (oxtail curry stew), pinakbet (vegetable dish), and adobo piksaw (pork in soy sauce stew). Each one were about $ 3 – 4 each.