Pinoy Corner Aurora Il

This is the new Filipino store in the area competing with J&S Oriental Store down the street 5 mins away. Store is run by a husband and wife team, husband runs the front and cash register while the wife runs the back kitchen. Kitchen is open to the customers to see how cooked foods and catered foods are prepared to show customers confidence that the foods are prepared according to health standards. Unlike J&S Oriental where you don't see their kitchen. Prices are also lower and item selections are better. Aside from that, store is clean and well-run. Their money remittance fee to the Philippines are the lowest in Chicagoland and quite fast. Good customer service. Stopped going to J&S simply because Pinoy Corner is better.

This is the cleanest and most organized Filipino store I've been to. This comes directly from a Filipino! The owner is so nice and let me sample the food (AMAZING! Just like my mom's cooking) and let me know they bake deserts fresh as well. Prices are fair. The hard to find international spices and sauces are found here. Looking for Filipino snacks, longonesa, lumpia? That's here too!

Great service and let me sample whatever I liked. This was my first time eating Filipino food and I am definitely coming back here. Highly recommend this place!

Very friendly family owned store. They have food prepared in the back. They are always very nice in explaining what everything is since I'm not familiar with Filipino cuisine.

This review is for the grocery section only. I didn't try to get any of their hot food. NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS: The store is on the small side. They don't carry as much items as Jofen or FM Asian Foid Mart. PROS: A clean Filipino food store! Finally. This is in sharp contrast to the filthy, greasy, grimy Jofen ORIENTAL in Bolingbrook. Pinoy Corner's freezers and refrigerators are clean, well-maintained, and have doors that close. Again, this is in sharp contrast to Jofen Oriental's dirty, filthy, too warm, poorly maintained, beat up, overstuffed, on-its-last-legs refrigerators and freezers. The food in the freezers and refrigerators don't look old or expired. They look fresh, especially when compared with Jofen. This is the first Filipino food store in the Chicagoland area that I would be comfortable to purchase perishable food from. The staff member present, the husband of the lady who cooks food in their restaurant section, was polite, friendly, and solicitous. He greeted and spoke to me in Tagalog so I automatically assumed that he's Filipino. It wasn't until I was paying for my purchases that I realized that he's Caucasian! He is the first Caucasian person I've met who can speak Tagalog fluently in the 30 years I've lived in the Chicagoland area. Their prices are decent and competitive with other Filipino food stores. CON: Many items on the shelves don't have the price displayed. I purchased 1 Nagaraya garlic cracker nuts and 1 can of Ligo Squid 15 Oz for $1.99 and $3.09 respectively. Fair prices in my opinion. I will tell my parents about this place. They have long been looking for a clean Filipino food store staffed by professionals selling safe to eat perishable food items that are decently priced.