With marina grocery shutdown, my mom wanted to go here for Asian produce and ingredients. It's part of an Asian plaza so be careful with finding parking as it's tight and lots of elderly people driving. So many horns honking with everyone think they have the right of the way. Senter Foods is like any other Asian market with dirty floors, narrow aisles stocked with Asian foods, and a small area in the corner for live seafood and meats. My mom found what she needed, so nothing to complain about except the interior of the grocery store. read more

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I was trying to go to marina food and is closed so I decided to go to the supermarket and I bought some chicken, and I am about to cook it, and I noticed that the chicken is already bad I think they should work more on their food packaging,expiring and keeping everything clean. I don't recommend this place read more

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I tried to go to Marina supermarket but it was completely shut down. So I went two more minutes away to Sentee foods. It is your typical Asian market. The cleanliness is questionable, but the prices are good. I needed to get meat for dog food and was able to purchase ground beef and ground pork and some whole fish. My only concern is the ground beef did not indicate what percentage was lean to fat and the guy behind the counter didn't speak English. I purchased it, because I needed it, but I suspect it was not as lean as I would've liked. The prices are good, variety is OK, but it does have an odd smell, but if you can get over that, you can get what you need there. Hopefully Marina will reopen as a different market if it is closed permanently. read more

Employee very rude (fish area), dirty, tight space, stinks, compare to other Asian groceries. We try to complain and called 2x, voice-mail is full, read more

This market is really only striving because of its location. The store looks like it has never been cleaned and always packed with people, We brought Egg Noodles from them and its filled with mold! This is not the first time we have brought rotten food from them. A few things to keep in mind when shopping here. 1. Always check your receipt. In the midst of the pandemic, the owner (specifically the son) overcharged us (the item was less than 10 dollars, he charged us $77). 2. Owners are extremely rude but the staff is okay. The manager here is amazing and always know how to make things right. 3. Always check your produce/items, as the review stated. They have sold us rotten packaged food more than one occasion. read more

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It smells bad and needs a through clean. Vegetables are fresh and lower prices than other places. That's the only reason I go there. read more

Stopped here August 13, 2021 for some grocery shopping and was also hoping to exchange, not return but hoping to exchange an item previously purchased here on a recent grocery re-stock trip about 2 1/2 weeks ago. It's still Pandemic Time..and many people, (not All, but many people) just want to do 1 big grocery run - 1 stop shop, for personal safety, items needed at home to stock up etc. We talked to the Owner - specifically the Son, and asked him if we could exchange, not return, but exchange an item previously purchased at this store? He briefly looked at the item (Bao Bun Dough) and said in super rude snippy tone..."We don't sell this.." I politely told him, "Yes You Do..I purchased this here at your store." I walked to the back of the store with him, where the Bao Bun Dough I purchased can be found and sure enough, guess what, it's right there on the shelves. He again said in super rude snippy tone: " Yours wasn't purchased here, this isn't from our store.." I told him, "How do you know it's not from your store? You can scan this, and it will tell you it was purchased here, you know?" He completely ignored my question, deflected, responded with a wishy washy answer and said "Well, we get thousands of items delivered each day..so it's difficult to keep track.." which did not answer my question. How do you know it's not from your store? You don't! What happened to going above and beyond, providing excellent outstanding Customer Service to Customers who have been longtime customers? Oh, not here, bottom line seems much much more important than providing excellent Customer Service. We've been grocery shopping here for 15+ years and stop by at least 2x a month. They say " It's Pandemic Time, you should make it a point to support your local grocery stores &your local Small Business stores." Pff - No, not like this...We won't be supporting local Small Businesses with Owners/Managers providing horrible, super rude and snippy Customer Service to longtime Customers, like this. There's really no need for such horrible behavior towards longtime customers. Customers will take their business somewhere else. We won't be back. Just think how foolish & petty, the Owner's Son's behavior is. The Bao Bun Dough bag costs about $1.50, we would have purchased as we usually do $100+ worth of groceries..which is a lot more than just the silly Bao Bun dough bag value. His loss..for losing $100+ and not looking at the big picture read more

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The place is good for some seafood. Finally, after a few years, we can have crab freedom. $3.99/lb for dungeons crab, and they have tons of supply. read more

ATTENTION!!! We came to buy some French Crackers (forgot the name of it but quite pricey). We realized the crackers were EXPIRED!!!! Also to add on, they took about 20 minutes to resolve this problem. Came back today, found the SAME crackers out of its box in a small container taped!! DISGUSTING! Why are they selling expired items? They are 100% aware of this! If you want to get sick from your food, this is the market to go! If not, please do not go to this place, EVER! The store is so dim, dirty, smelly, and messy. Staff are also EXTREMELY rude! read more

Nasty place, smells like rotten fish. Staff very unfriendly. Avoid, much better Asian markets in the neighborhood.

This Vietnamese market is very dirty and smell very bad. I do not recommend everyone to shop here.

Các bạn cẩn thận khi mua gạo ở chợ này. Gạo giả. Gạo mà thanh Nhựa cháy . Gạo giả trộn vào để bán . Chúng tôi mua gạo ở đây 1 tháng trớc. Và chúng tôi đã bị mất receipt. Chúng tôi đa gạo tới để đổi lại bao khác . Nhng ông chủ ở đây không đồng ý đổi lại . Trong gạo đã có những nhựa đen cháy . Rất nguy hiểm. Các ban cẩn thận mua gạo ở chợ Senter Foods . Chúng tôi sẽ không bao giờ quay trở lại cho nay read more

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Horrible. I hate giving 1 star but hoping this will prevent this market serving their customers rotten meat. My husband bought some baby pork rib, pork bones, and some beef. We cooked the pork rib last night but apparently, it wasn't edible. As I bit into my pork rib, it instantly has a soap smell. We are always very careful with our food because we have two little ones. The meat itself doesn't look fresh or has a good piece of meats like other meats I bought from other market. Im assuming that their meats gone bad and they don't want to waste it, instead they soak it with soap to kill the smell before selling it to customers again. I hope other customers whom bought the same batch will realize it and not eat it. I will be throwing away all the meats I brought from this market because I no longer trust this business and without trust, I can not feed my children with the meats I bought here. I will be going to another market for groceries today. read more

Senter Foods - beef for tacos tomorrow and pork bone for soup, but I will be throwing it away and buy new one today at a different market. - International Grocery Near Me - San Jose, California

If i can give a 0 star for this review, i would do it. i went in to ask for pricing on a propane stove, they gave a price for $240. then i go borrow a truck then return for purchase. they jack up the price to $300. within a 1 hr time frame price change just like that. very dishonest business. rediculous read more

Senter Foods sells pan asian (chinese, southeast asia, phillipines, korean) groceries and food products as well as American. Mexican may be available too. didn't look, lines starting to form. busy the few times i dropped in. aisles narrow. end aisles stocked with "specials". buys: tsing tao newspaper -phillipine snack (jack & jill) some msg tasted, oily too. shopping notes: -old shopping center crammed with cars parking available on the edges of the lot. read more

Very very bad... they always charged over the price they listed...make sure double check on the receipt

I use to live in the Seven Trees area growing up and I remember coming to this store all the time when I was a kid. Great place for cheap meats and fish, providing great and authentic home-cooked asian meals. I am pretty sure that 75% of everything I ate as a child came from this store. Everything is always cheap here just like every asian market, but this place has a lot of value to me. I still come to this market even though I live closer to the lion market. The cashiers can be a little grim, and can also spend a lot of time talking to ladies in front of you in line, but its an asian market... haha. I've seen a lot worse. This place also has great festivities and rarities. During chinese new years and tet, they always have dances and music in the parking lot. I remember I use to go as a kid to watch those dragons and plug my ears as those red fire crackers go off. I use to scavenge around finding tons of unlit fire crackers. aahhhhh memories! read more

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The store is dirty and sells expire stuff. Make sure you look at the dates before buying anything.

WARNING!SELLING DEAD OYSTERS.I bought a big box/60 pieces of oysters and could only eat 3 out of 60. They were mostly death and smelled like poop. I don't recommend going to thjs super market for oysters. BE CAREFUL. read more

Senter Foods - WARNING!SELLING DEAD OYSTERS.I bought a big box/60 pieces of oysters and could only eat 3 out of 60. They were mostly death and smeelly. - International Grocery Near Me - San Jose, California

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Would give less if I possibly could... Stood at the fish counter for quite awhile as the employees kept taking person after person who arrived AFTER us. Finally when another guy finished, he looked us right in the eyes and moved right on to the next Asian man standing there who barely stepped up. I said "Are you kidding me? We've been standing here!" The employee just shrugged his shoulders like "o well" and proceeded to help the other guy. We threw the fish backed to the ice and walked out. Not the first time we have come across rude employees at that store. It was our last time visiting... The store is dirty and crowed, like a mop and broom have never passed across that floor. The fish and other seafood are never the freshest and look old. Avoid this place, be safe and take your business elsewhere. read more

I prefer this small supermarket compared to another one on Monterey Road and Senter Road. I'll leave that unnamed till I have time to review that other supermarket... This supermarket always has many produce in stock. I come here for the fresh vegetables and greens. There are many fresh, clean greens here and at great prices. Summer time produce and greens prices are the best, but now Fall season, some greens raised prices. Eggs are a steal here with Jumbo Dozen Eggs Grade A are 2 for $3. The eggs are huge in comparison to American supermarkets like Safeway or Lucky. Word of advice: the cashiers ladies confirm with me that the main special sale prices are Friday through Sunday. 50 lbs of rice are a few dollars less as well. Grabbing food items here whether fresh, dry, or canned are a breeze. Udon is usually 2 for $1, sometimes 3 for $1. They have good deals on banh pho and bun (which are different noodles to make Vietnamese soup). I rarely buy any meat or seafood here, but on the rare occasions I am helped promptly. Very good service in comparison to other Asian supermarkets. Oh yea, I can't forget they have Live Turtles...poor things...O_o my goodness. They just crawl around in a bin. I'll take a picture next time! And update everybody. I remember they are near the seafood in the far right back end of Senter Foods. I've been going here for years now and have always had friendly & fast service by cashiers. read more

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This market is very well known in my family. When my mom just came over to Vietnam this was the only asian supermarket around that was affordable. Now I go here for cheap and fresh vegetables and protein! Yes the floors, fridges, and shelves arent exactly the shiniest or nicest, but it what on the inside that counts right? What's so great about this market is that the layout never changes. My mom and I know this store detail to detail (not exactly but you get what I mean) so when we're in a rush and we need to pick up some last minute green onion, we can walk in and walk right out. I've been going here since I was a little kid and nothing has changed. The workers are nice and very helpful, and the wait for lines is not very long. They always have about 3-4 cash registers open all day! read more

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I find everything I need here (besides unhealthy American crap) and the seafood is always fresh at incredible prices! And now, they've added Mexican foods so they really are the perfect specialty store! Everyone there is always so helpful and friendly! For the quality at such low prices, I would definitely recommend coming here before any other Asian store! I can even buy my favorite candy Super Lemon here! PLUS they just started carrying this incredible white rice from Cambodia! This rice is better than any white rice I've had! read more

I have purchased expired food here, I've also seen rats. This market is dirty, I wouldn't accept goods here, even if it FREE.

Small market with some great fresh veggies. My mom comes here for the rare veggies that she needs in some of her vietnamese dishes. This market is in a small parking lot so be careful when driving in! read more

Convenient and easy shopping center. Needed fresh noodles and didn't want to drive 4 miles away and saw this supermarket sold Asian goods. Sure enough, found the fresh noodles as well other small goods. Only downfall about this place is the people who hang out outside. There were tons of people with loud speaker music just hanging against the wall staring as you walk in and out. read more

I wish there was 0 stars for this place. I was treated very poorly by the fish market associates. They didn't help us at all they were just starring and when we asking if we could be helped they said "WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT" when we were already waiting read more

I bought a bag of shrimp here and when I opened the bag it smelled so bad, I had already put 1/2 on my pan to cook but I went with my gut feeling and decided to return to the store and let them know. Thinking I would get another bag or a refund they asked where the rest of the shrimp was, I'm like really?! "Smell the bag, they are bad!" They really thought I ate 1/2 and i was coming in to ask for a refund! They refused to refund or help me. HORRIBLE customer service!!! The manager told me to call the health department! REALLY?!! WOW!! I will NEVER shop here again and as a matter of fact I will report them to the Health Dept!! read more

I truly do not understand how this place is open ! PLEASE AVOID AT ALL COST ! On the deli section and "seafood" looks like it has mold on the roof. I could only imagine what could fall on the meat as they cut right under it ! I was so grossed out by the smell ! I found packaged food open !!! So disgusting be safe !!! read more

I used to hate this market so much because it smells so bad. It still does but I don't hate it as much anymore because my mom said their prices are lower than most other asian markets in the area. So I guess it works. The market is small, but it has a lot of things, so everything is packed together. It's kinda hard to push the shopping carts around. Being one of the small asian markets in the area, Senter Food still carries variety of products no difference from other bigger markets. I actually found it easier to get different types of mushrooms in Senter Food than Marina Market. Also, they usually have dungeness crab on sale or cheaper than other asian markets. Moreover, in front of Senter Food, there are people sitting there to sell several types of banana leaf wrapped cake. They are pretty good, too. So as much as I hate the smell of Senter Food, I can't deny the fact that Asian moms can find a lot of good deals there. read more

I go here by default because it is the closest grocery store to my house. Produce and veggies are way old. Do yourself a favor and go to lions supermarket. it is way cleaner there. Just go here if you're desperate. read more

Even this market is not as close to my house as others but I Love going here....they always have exotic food...some are still alive...hihihi... most of their products are cheaper than most markets...sometime you can learn from the ladies talking about tips on cooking that you can't find .... read more

Price is cheap and many kind of foods to shop. However, couldn't stand the bad smell inside. Outside market is also dirty. And this condition seemed never being changed read more