Roong Jing Jing

I love Thai food. I love (trying) to make Thai food. One of the biggest hurdles is to making it more often is getting ingredients. Even when I have time to trek out to the Asian grocery store, my efforts are often thwarted by pushy, impatient wouldn’t dare actually help me locate a product.
This place is a complete game changer! Not only did the clerk speak English, he was super friendly and helpful. I ended up walking out of the store with much more than I came for (you’d think the other stores might catch on the this tactic… But no).
The best take away was the Thai sausage that they sell frozen. We grilled it up at home for a fabulous week night dinner. Tempted to dock a star because selection of items is pretty slim. Very few fresh veggies, the one brand of fried onions/​shallots they have isn’t the greatest, etc. But for such a small store, its hard to set high expectations.
Anyway, if you want to buy Thai ingredients without feeling pushed around or defeated by the end, this is the place to go!

Thai food here is really
is traditional thai food.

What you cannot find in ranch 99, you can find here. I found my kaffir lime leaves for my tom yum goong. It’s a small store but the lady is nice, and if you cannot find the ingredient to make your special Thai dish, you maybe able to find it here.

Roong Jing Jing is a pleasant twist to the usual market. Though a very small store, it literally has everything that a cook needs for Thai food.
Don’t be thrown off by the small size of the store or the sign that says they have music, because they’ll have what you need. Need kaffier lime leaves? They got that! Need curry paste? They have a plethora? Need holy basil? They have that, unless you did what I did and came on Sunday when they’re sold out.
All in all, this is an amazing place for all the rare ingredients you’ll need for a Thai dish. Unfortunately they don’t have much in their stock and their place is small. Otherwise they deserve a ⁵⁄₅.
Shop well and prosper!

Fantastic dessert for $ 2.5 each. Very authentic. The owner, P’Roong let us try some candies we ended up buying as well. Great place for Thai groceries. Should have bought more!

Yup, this is definitely my go-​to place for a nice Thai dinner (actually two as I make a dish last two meals). As others note, this tiny shop offers «Thai style» dishes on the weekend. Some are simply great! Some incendiary!!! And yes, the frozen Thai sausage rocks! Get the spicy version.

Funny thing is that I haven’t bought «groceries» as much as prepared food of one type or another. They have a whole section of prepared, ready to take home Thai food — salads, curries, Thai desserts (lots, I think the owner has a sweet tooth!).
We always come for the spicy Thai sausage and buy pounds worth and keep it in our freezer at home. It is wonderful grilled, take of lemongrass, chilies and a few other things. Careful, be sure to ask for the spicy one. They have a few that like the fermented sausage which i like but some of my friends call an acquired taste.
Only negative is that everything is authentic — meaning written in Thai. A little translation for us farang would help.

This grocery store is small but it has a decent selection. This store carries instant noodles from Thailand, bottled beverages, sauces, thai tea loose tea leaves, frozen thai chili peppers, CDS & DVDS from Thailand, Thai desserts, pre-​made items such as curries and chicken over rice. Their frozen thai chili peppers aren’t that nice but I’m still glad they sell it. This is the only place I’ve been to in the bay area that sells loose tea leaves for Thai tea ! The other places I’ve been to, they only sell the tea bags or instant Thai tea. I might be back to try some of their Thai desserts or pre-​made items … we shall see.

Love this tiny Thai Grocerry!
They can make fresh papaya salad right there.
I love the one with sulty crab.
I always want to try thier deli stuff, too.
Have not try them all, but everything looks really good.
I do buy some Thai grocery too.
And, Open super late, too.
Love this place.

As of late, I’ve been taking a break from banh mi. I didn’t think it was possible, but I managed to go overboard on my love of that sandwich. As a result, I haven’t been to my local banh mi store, Ba Le in six months.
A couple of weeks ago I had a banh mi craving, so I headed in the direction of the strip mall where Ba Le is located. Wow, a lot had changed in those months of my absence. This is a strip mall I pass at least four times a week, yet I never noticed a new Thai store just doors down from my beloved Ba Le.
After my sandwich fix, I headed to Roong Jing Jing to check out what Thai goodies were in store for me. The diminutive space is packed with Thai pots, pans, utensils, music, karaōke, CDs, canned food and clothing.
A special treat is on weekends they offer premade Thai desserts and snacks. Coconut sticky rice, sticky rice balls in coconut cream, black sticky rice pudding and many more items I didn’t recognize were piled high. Savory snacks such as friend pig ear and Thai jerky are also available on weekends.
I helped myself to a coconut sticky rice concoction and bag of Thai jerky and chatted up the owner who told me that she’s had a store inside the Pacific East mall for the last 10 years and just relocated a couple of months ago.
Both the dessert and the jerky were amazing. I had my doubts about the dessert since it was prepackaged, but it tasted fresh and was still warm. I was told that all the desserts are made by a local Thai restaurant and only available on Saturday and Sunday, which explains the freshness.
If you’re looking for anything Thai-​related, this is your place. If you can’t find it, the owner can source it for you.

A lot of Thai «stuff» here. From dried food, canned food. Different type of soft drinks, house décor items, Thai movies and DVDs And Thai dramas, and what not, you name it they have it, if not tell them and they import for you in a month or so?
But Saturday is the day to go. Different type of thai foods and desserts all boxed up and ready togo! The desserts that delivers there are all home made and very delicious, and very reasonably priced too. But definitely check this place out if your in the neighborhood, and I
hope you won’t be dissapointed.
Happy Unilocaling!

I definitely come here to get the Thai foods you can’t get at the Thai restaurants on the weekends. It’s pretty authenticate. You can find products here that are not available in the standard Asian markets like the fresh Thai Holy basil. The place is remote unlike their former location but it’s definitely worth a trip if you’re in need of Thai desserts or snacks.

Small Thai import store (formerly «Sairoong Thai» located in the Pacific East Mall plaza) that carries an assortment of Thai handicrafts as well as music, VCDs and DVDs or Thai films, a small selection of toiletries and housewares (Ever wanted one of those ornate metal rice serving pots they have at Thai restaurants? Check here. Bottles of Sunsilk shampoo with the label in Thai? Check here. 47 different varieties of MaMa and WaiWai instant noodles? Check here. Poy-​Sian nasal inhalers? Check here.) and an assortment of both dry, packaged and frozen food items, including a scrumptious locally-​made Lao/​Issan-​style sausage that some Thai friends turned me onto.
On weekends they sell freshly-​made snacks and treats of the sort which you can find easily from street vendors in Thailand, but which rarely show up on restaurant menus around here, and also offer papaya salad (both in Thai or Lao styles) made-​to-​order while you wait.
Friendly and helpful staff.