The supermarket specializing in Filipino foods is the first Seafood City to open in the state of Texas.
This is not a mom and pop sized store, this is a 50,000 square foot store with a Filipino specialty bakery and a Filipino Bar-B-Que restaurant located inside.
Seafood City Supermarket, first founded in San Diego in 1989 has quickly grown to 32 stores nationwide and the stores that are being opened are being strategically located in communities with the largest populations of Filipino-Americans.
“Seafood City brings a sense of Filipino home to the Houston area. It’s a place where you can find products and ingredients specifically for Filipino dishes,” said Meg Austria, store manager.
“We used to have to go to 2 or 3 different, small, Filipino stores to get something that we actually want but over here we just, it’s one stop shop,” said Sheryl Omandeac, a local salesperson and Filipino-American who moved to the U.S. ten years ago.
An estimated 28,548 Harris County residents identify as Filipino-Americans and throughout Texas there are more than 235,000 Filipino-Americans according to the 2020 American Community Survey, conducted by the Census Bureau.
Where once Filipino families would have to shop and stop at multiple mom and pop shops all over town to find the traditional foods they are looking for, now they can find it all in one place at Seafood City.
Seafood City Supermarket opened its doors on December 14th in Sugar Land.
The store is open every day 8:00am to 9:00pm and is located at 15235 Southwest Freeway in Sugar Land.