Roong Jing Jing Thai Specialty — Local services in El Cerrito

A nice little Thai market in El Cerrito, CA. Not too much of selections, but it does have what the family needs/wants. The pre-packed Thai foods are pretty good. We usually get the "Northern Thai Pork Laab", I believe they were out by the time we dropped by. This dish contains pork liver. The dessert that we also usually pick up is the Thai cotton cake. During this visit, we picked up the Thai cotton cake, pork laab, flower-shaped cookies & rice crackers w/honey.

Update: 04/30/2023 We stopped by the restaurant next door today and decided to stop in to see what's left from yesterday's pre-packed food. We managed to pick up some more Thai Cotton Cake, pork laab and a few other snacks. Always a pleasure shopping here....

You can get almost any sort of Thai ingredients here. I've gotten limestone water(makes crispy desserts like khanom Kai nok krata), tian op candles for smoking desserts, seedless tamarind paste, stemless cha om for omelettes, and apparently they occasionally have cilantro roots. On weekends you can get random premade things like yum pladook Fu(crispy fried catfish puff), Mee krob(crispy sweet noodles), chor muang, thai patongko with sangkaya(basically mini youtiao with kaya jam/custard), and Thai egg yolk desserts like foi thong(based on Portuguese fios de ovos) and thong yod. The staff is super helpful...

I frequent this store when I’m in the area. A small store but it has a good selection of Thai and Asian food and home sundries. It even has a refrigerator for cold and frozen foods. The highlight is that on certain days, it carries very good prepackaged foods and desserts. Very friendly proprietors. Some foods mild or somewhat spicy, others can be extra...