Home Pantry

Home Pantry at Blackburn
Visited on 24/3/2022

I was asked by a friend to check out this grocery store. In fact, I heard of this before, but I never thought of visiting it because there are many Asian groceries around my house.

It is close to the railway station, located at the basement of a suburban building. It is a rather quiet during my wife and I visit, no where close the amount of foot traffic in similar stores.

It does not have many isles of shelves, and dies not stock many grocery items. However, it captues a niche market by selling packaged as well as freshly cooked food, pastries, kuihs and frizen Yum Cha itens specifucally for the Malaysian / Singaporean customers.

I can see that it stocks two brands of frozen Musang King. It seems the less known brand is a better tastewise.

The freshly cooked food is cooked on the premise, but other are sourced from suppliers who also supply to other groceries and eateries.

As first time customers, my wife and I are offered a cup of coffee. Although it comes from an automatic coffee machine, and using non-fresh milk, the coffee really taste great, aromatic, full-body and "creamy".

We try the curry puff. I have to give it full marks for the puff pastry and the curry filling.

The staff is very friendly, but too honest. I think she is over excited to see customers who are interested in her store and products. She is a bit inexperienced in running a busine, because she should not disclose where she sourced the products too readily.

A home pantry indeed with all the essential Asian kitchen and groceries supplies. Besides selling tubs of ice creams, they have many Malaysian cooking ingredients and sauces.
The fridges have a good variety of pre-packaged kuih, rice and noodle meals.
Friendly staff and helpful service.

Great place to get a huge varieties of delicious Malaysian food convenient for take away. My regular favourites are the different types of Nasi Lemak packed in banana leaves, and the mackerel fish on timeric rice with sambal. Also a great place to get soup packs.

Most down to earth friendly staffs in Melbourne! Shop is always kept at its best clean and neat condition. Always a pleasure to visit without nasty surprises. Huge variety of Asian cuisines are reasonable prices. Also their frozen section has amazing stuffs too. Will visit whenever I’m in that area. Great efforts in keeping your shop so clean and always a pleasure to visit for quenching my hunger!!

The shop sell different food and other snacks... . They just sell kuih every Saturday.. Price really affordable and not to expensive. Food are nice and standard portion.. They sell Durian and Boba ice cream 😍😍.. Seems like I will come here regularly 🤣🤣🤣😁😁.. Really close to Blackburn Station, just 2 min by walking

I've been going to Home Pantry many times for its food and special offerings on Saturdays. Stephanie is always very friendly and goes out of her way to help me, be it carry my food to the car as I have a young toddler, or ensuring I have my cravings satisfied by reserving special Singaporean/Malaysian food. They keep their menu varied by offering various food items throughout the week, from several restaurants or catering companies. I'm lucky this is within my 5km radius!

First, I must admit all the staff are soooooooo friendly and courteous ,pleasant and helpful. During the early Covid days, one staff even offered to sent the food to my place coz I told her I live out of the 5 km quarantine radius. Comments made to the shop are attended to professionally and efficiently. Love the choices of Asian ready to eat fast food packages ,so many varieties to choose from. Despite its small area Home Pantry never fail to deliver what we need. To sum it up, A small shop with lots to offer amidst very friendly environment!!!…probably to add more excitement and bite, have a small kitchen to dish out simple hot savoury hawkers food on the weekends.

Went here for their brown sugar milk tea icecream but ended up walking out with a couple Malaysian food and desserts (including the icecream I wanted). The food was great and everything is reasonable priced. My favourite is the prawn noodles with its flavourful prawn broth with a spicy kick. My tip would be to heat up the food on the stove rather than microwave for better result. Definitely coming back for more. Owners are lovely and would happily tell you about their food offerings and how fresh it is.

Fantastic! They have a wide range of items! Ranging from the bare necessities (Like headache tablets and buckets) to little goodies (like donuts and wontons). They have vegan options too!

Prices are extremely reasonable, which was a great surprise. Staff were very friendly and helpful, and the shop itself was clean and wonderfully laid out.

A wonderful shop that I will definitely be going to regularly.

Staff are very helpful and they stock a wide range of freshly prepared Asian meals, Nyonya Kueh/Kuih, Malaysian pantry staples and snacks. Remember to pre-order if there's something you really want, so they'll put it aside for you.

This has fast become my favourite go to place to pick up all my necessities and more! They also stock a wide range of delicious home-style Malaysian food like nasi lemak, bak chang, various types of noodles etc. The store is owned by a beautiful Malaysian family and the service is impeccable.

100% would encourage everyone to check it out!

It's great for when u cbf going shopping and its just outside your door... I love that I can leave home and be back in under 2min with a meal or that thing forgotten at supermarket... Very entrepreneurial buying and converting. I don't think it was purpose built off the plan to be a shop... It's just another apartment on the G floor (I think so anyway)

Plenty choices of Malaysian food here and most of them are pretty delicious. Unfortunately the curry laksa is always out of stock. The owners are always very friendly.

Great noodle soups, Nasi lemak and sushi. Good value, great prices and packed really well for transport. I like the variety and fresh quality ingredients. Really thoughtful customer service too. Thanks 😊

Love their selection of groceries (their frozen durian selection is great!), and their food which you can pre-order as well. Love their authentic Malaysian cuisine!

Always like coming to this place, as it has ready packed Malaysian food and desserts and alot of convenient necessities.

Excellent milkbar style shop (but way better)
I love the hot meals and Asian desserts.

Having a convenience store so close makes it really handy. Not having to drive to a safeway or coles. I'l definitely be using this as my first stop for groceries.

A precious local gem, with wonderful Asian delicacies and gifts and warm friendly staff.

Highly recommend this store! Staffs are super friendly too!