My Place Convenience Store

Nothing very special. The store has one of those passive aggressive «you’re on camera» signs which makes me feel slightly unwelcome. Most of the time the owner will be wearing his headphones, looking pretty bored. Sometimes you’ll also see his kids running around behind the register. I only come here if 7 – 11 doesn’t carry a certain item.
Giving this place a fair three stars because of the onigiri ($ 1.99) and teriyaki chicken rice bowls ($ 3.50?). Pretty good.

The owner is extremely rude and didn’t even bother to look at me when I asked him a question.

Not really sure what to think of this place. My friend from work and I just finished eating lunch at El Pollo Loco in the same plaza. She mentioned to me that her daughter told her that this convenience store also sells milk tea. (Honey Boba is right there as well, but who wants to pay $ 5+ for a drink? LOL). Her daughter goes to Arcadia High School.
So upon entering, they were selling some random imported goods. They didn’t have a lot in stock. Many were single items only. From pens, nail clippers, badge holders, makeup, stationary, drinks, snacks, and food. They also have canned drinks (kona coffee, milk tea, grass jelly etc.) and hot rice bowls (teriyaki chicken, beef) They also had a sticker picture booth in the corner which I don’t think was working. So nothing out of the ordinary that you can’t find at your average Asian market.
As others have mentioned, their prices are high. Personally, I wouldn’t purchase any of the items they sold here. I did think about the plastic badge holder with cute character on it for work, but $ 7?!? My friend said her daughters like their rice balls here. Moving on, we were here for the $ 2.25 boba milk tea. (They got an A rating from the Health Department so that’s good.)
We told the lady there we wanted to order the milk tea and she said the boba wasn’t ready. She didn’t even tell us how long it was going to be or if we wanted to wait for it. The man there said 5 minutes so we said we would wait.
He had the milk tea in a plastic milk jug and poured it into thin plastic cups. When you pick up the cup, it would squeeze in and make the tea spill out from the top.
The boba itself had a nice consistency because they just made it. However the milk tea was on the sweet side. (Eh… had better.)
⁸⁄₁₀₀ Reviews for 2015

what do you get when you cross a roxo and a my place. answer??? angery!!!
air con break. dude dont fix for months and months??? the heat meats roxo swet hard!!!
only thing roxo like. cute dauter =-)
oh and rice ball maybe i guess

Owner is a complete prick and is disrespectful. I will NEVER visit this place again. I would give this place no stars if I could

The owner of this store is a straightup dumbass. I came in to ask for a bit of sriracha (chili sauce that they put on shelves for people to use), the man said no, u cant take it because they’re for my customers. I said I was here like an hour ago, he said I don’t recognize you so no. Its like me going to mcdonalds and asking for ketchup and they tell you NO you can’t have a pouch of ketchup. –_​-​x WTF
Worst of the worst owner ever. Totally uninviting. This place needs to shut down, please boycott it fellow citizens. It is the most ripped off sht in the world, and the owner just makes it worse. Never coming back again.
Can I give no stars to this place? It doesn’t deserve any at all.

Zero! This is a joke! Empty shelves, unorganized items… was this store just robbed before we came in?
I didn’t have to ask the manager. I got it.

I stopped by because I was curiously about what they sell in there. The selection is small, just a few bags of snacks on the shelf. The price is higher than 99 Ranch but I expected it because it’s a convenience store.
Overall, nothing special and I probably won’t go there again.

I’ll be honest, there’s only one reason why I usually come in here: to get a bottled milk tea. It’s not something that’s regularly sold, even in asian supermarkets. Sure it’s a bit pricey, but it is a convenience store, after all. It’d be like complaining that the milk is expensive at 7-​Eleven. Well duh!
Though I will echo a fellow reviewer’s comment that it does close early for a «convenience» store. Though if you’re in need of asian snacks late at night, might as well head further west and go to EE Convenient Store.
Parking’s generally okay at the lot. I’ve never had a problem with that. Though you can always just park at the Arcadia library in a pinch if need be.

My Place Convenience was SO great when the original owner was still in the states…
Expensive products, hostile new owner…
and they keep their BABY behind the counter. Seriously?
The rice balls are pretty good, no lie.
But other than that, meh. 7-Eleven’s right across the street.

This place sucks! Bad selection of snacks. I recommend the ²⁴⁄₇ convenient store located on Baldwin and Duarte by the IHOP. This is not my place or anyone’s place to go. UGH!

Enjoy the hole in your wallet and the asian lady following you even if you yourself is asian.

Seriously. if you’re going to open a pseudo-​Asian convenience store, at least try to make yourself something worth going to.
Here is where ‘My Place’ has gone wrong and why it will never be ‘my place’ to go:
1. The selection is nothing special — there is nothing here that I can’t find at 99 Ranch, Mitsuwa, and heck, even at certain American grocery stores.
2. The prices on all the items are anywhere from 20~50%+ more pricey than the places mentioned previously.
3. When I went to the store in July last year, I thought I might actually get some Taiwanese hot snacks only to find that those hot snacks were ‘seasonal’ and ‘not available during the season’… Really? Seriously? I didn’t know fish paste was ‘seasonal’.
4. The guy behind the counter is a mix between Lurch and the Crypt Keeper — basically bored out of his mind and completely uninviting. When asked if they had certain items, he says: ‘I don’t know, go look around for yourself’.
5. If you’re going to open up your shop in ‘Arc-​asia’, try to be original and not open ½ mile away from EE ²⁴⁄₇ a few months after they made their mark. And if you are trying to be a competitive clone, make your prices and selections equal or better.
Bottom line: I won’t be back here. Only upside? It’s relatively clean and well lit. I’m very surprised this place has been open this long.

If you have money to burn, by all mean come here.
Nothing special here. Most of the items here you can find either in 99 Ranch and Mitsuwa for about 20% — 50% less.

I give this place 5 stars because its first of its kind here in the states. Yes there are copy cats popping up but none have the wide assortment of snacks and drinks that this place offers. Their cooked lunch boxes are always fresh and delicious, (yes a bit pricy but I’ll pay the extra $ 1 for the convenience), their buns and handrolls are also quite good. This place is literally a one minute walk from my house so in fact to me it is like the convenient stores in Taiwan that are typically just around the corner from everyone, lucky me!

It’s really 3.5 stars, but for the sake of rounding up, it gets a 4.
The onigiri here is sometimes hard (rice hard), though you can microwave it.
The second sucky part is that its pretty expensive.
For all the other parts, its small and you can buy a lot of snack here. And if you want cubyrop, they sell it here. Be careful not to splurge.