Boutique Samoa Market - Anaheim, California

Jared Cohee

SAMOA 🇼🇸
Eat the World LA review:
Samoa is the birthplace of the second largest amount of people of Pacific Islander origin in the United States after only Hawai'i, with Los Angeles being the largest community of them on the mainland (Honolulu has more). If that sentence did not have enough fun facts in it for you, it is also worth noting that more Samoans now live in the US than in Samoa. Despite this, they leave a fairly small footprint in our area and it takes some tracking down as some restaurants and steam tables have closed over the years.

One place to find food prepared daily is at the back of a very nondescript strip mall on Western Avenue in Anaheim, once again proving the point that driving too fast is not only dangerous but a good way to miss the good stuff.

The shop sells colorful printed shirts, bags of chips and candy from Australia and New Zealand that must be available in Samoa, some fresh produce, and flags and other memorabilia. The main focus for us of course was the steam table and prepared foods, of which they have three sizes of meals depending on how hungry you are. The already gigantic lunch ($11.99) is technically the smallest but feeds three (non-islander noobs) and consists of taro and banana under a sausage (sosisi) on one half with lamb over a base of sapasui, or Samoan-style chow mein on the other.

Jen Kamahoʻi Mather

Super nice people work here! Food in the hot plate looks good but we just bought some kalo to plant at home.

Malae

Love the customer service and the family, but in all honesty the cooked food here has not tasted good in a long time. Everything pre packaged or any clothes are still good 👍🏼

Tina Brown

The food was so salty, overcooked, and hard, and taro looked like they were taro from two weeks ago. The most nastiest Polynesian food I’ve ever tasted. Wasted my money and my time here. I wish the one on Garden Grove Blvd has cooked food on week days.

Memory Leasau

Food poisoning items sold here. Brother suffered 3 days from food poisoning. Consider this your death warning ⚠️ Do not spend a penny here. You will be on the brink of death. Make the drive to Poasa’s in Carson. $40 worth of pig sty food (Matai plate) combo plate, smnslice of taro, sm fai’ai Pilikaki, sm (nasty) sapasui. Overpriced. Food looked as if it sat under warmers overnight. Faalifu for taro was same color of taro, purple. Povi color, crusty maroon swimming in dark green oil. Dusty merch, no pride/integrity in their service/business. Faamolemole, se’i fai ma se alofa & le fautauta. Store owners need to be ashamed & put behind bars. Sad!! E faanoanoa lava e faasilasila atu…🤮

apereamo

I tried to support this place but time and time again they keep disappointing me. The last time I was there their Turkey tails and pork sausages were overcooked, and looked they were sitting in the warmer all day long. The luau was way too salty. The chopsui was bland. I been there so many times but never again. I try to support my peoples but if your not gonna put out quality food then why do yall even bother to sell food then? Don't wast yalls money going here. Go to island poly grill in Carson or poasa too but not here.

Hillary DeSimone

Haven't been here in a long time and was so stoked to find out they were still here! It's under new management and they're real cool people. They've got a bunch of neat stuff but for sure you gota try the pineapple pie, it's amazing 🙂

Raylyn Miles

Not much variety at all to buy but the girls were friendly and helpful. I'm assuming the guy there was there Dad and the Owner. The girls quoted me prices then when they rung me up it was $25 more than they quoted me because the guy was standing there. I didn't say anything because I felt I'm half Samoan, that's my donation for there buisness.Then I thought about it and got mad. The guy judged me by the color of my skin and gave my cousin who is full Samoan a free pineapple pie and spoke to her with a smile in Samoan"saying here have this on us.its fresh out the oven and thank you for coming in" and looked at me with a blank stare. I understood eveything he said and realized that blank stare was Your going to pay for all the pies I give away today and maybe they will write a nice review to fix the bad review on the half moon pies here. Guess what? she don't like those pies and it's my favorite. I understood you and she didn't. Judging a book by it's cover is wrong and your predudice judgemetal self will hurt your business do to lack of wisdom and heart. Ripping people off and not having much in stock as well not welcoming to everyone is not a good business call .I drove 45 minutes to go see your store and brought my cousin and family there just to get ripped off and deal with a racist was a horrible experience .I strongly advise everyone not to waste there time going.