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3.1 (163 reviews)

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Carlo Q.

I've been coming to Grand Century Mall for about eight years, and I always enjoy coming back. The mall has a lively atmosphere, with a great selection of restaurants, delicious food, and refreshing boba teas. The staff and service are always friendly, which makes the experience even better. I especially love visiting around the Asian Lunar New Year. I came this evening to celebrate the end of Tết, and it was fantastic. There's great value here 2 , so much to C, taste, and enjoy without breaking the bank. Highly recommend for anyone looking for good food, drinks, and a fun cultural experience. Vietnam town

Leeza D.

Grand Century Mall in San Jose reminds me of the Asian Garden Mall in Westminster. Viet food court and restaurants, jewelry stores, dried food vendors, and various shops selling uniquely Vietnamese items. What was most impressive here is the massive home goods store selling everything and anything you can think of that you need for your kitchen and home. It's a great place to walk around. It's hard to decide where to eat, get a drink or dessert though as there is such a large selection here and in the surrounding shops. Please come and create your own adventure.

Phil I.

Grand Century Shopping Mall is a cultural hub of Vietnamese restaurants, boba cafes, food court and businesses all under one roof though over the past five years it has gone downhill not the same as before the worst part newly established restaurants and cafes are popping up right across the street which has made an impact with shoppers just by the amount of increase traffic tells you why. Here parking is a real challenge worst on the weekends would avoid coming out here in the evenings there's been a rash of car break-ins and security is very light on their feet not to mention excessive towing fees so much so enough to discourage coming out here again.

Lion dance outside the fountain
Maggie G.

Very festive here during lunar new year here. Mall is decorated throughout with many props for picture moment! Lot of firecrackers popping around. Loud and Smokey...lot is tents by the parking lot for gambling food court was busy... parking may be hard to find...

Judy C.

Checking out The Grand Century Shopping Mall, Major Vietnam town. I like to stop here especially to shop for my Vietnamese goods that I can't find back on Oahu & get my Vietnamese foods & desserts in. I smiled at the message regarding the buffalo, the sign states "do not sit on the buffalo, we are not responsible for your injuries resulted from your action", & the 5 massage chairs states absolutely no sleeping, the alarm will sound if money is not inserted, lol! I sat on the massage chairs just to see if the alarm will sound, if money not inserted, which didn't. All in all, this place is huge, pretty great, enjoyed my experience here. So many choices for Vietnamese cuisine, products, and services!! There's plenty parking, don't forget "remove it or lose it", don't leave valuables in car!

MV housewares and restaurant supplies is still open.  They have stainless steel, glass water and zojirushi products.
T N.

Grand Century Mall is a jewel in San Jose which needs to be repolished: 1) Improve the cleanliness of the bathrooms and floors 2) Immediately inject pop-up businesses near the vacant units near the entrance because the first impression when you walk in is "empty" when in fact there are stores still open inside. 3) Invite in other Asian business owners. There can be pop-ups with more Korean, Indian, Middle-Eastern and Southeast Asian new and modern stores. The City of San Jose needs to engage with this property owner. Grand Century Mall leadership's hands off approach is costing them money and the community _wants_ to shop but there is nothing new and exciting in the mall. The only worthwhile stores are in the food court and M.V. kitchen supplies place.

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Jeremiah M.

Grand Century Shopping Mall, the Northern rival to the Asian Garden Mall in California. Both share similarities for being major Vietnamese-based malls in California, but both have their differences as well. Grand Century seems to be more modern and a little more sleek, but feels more emptier than the Asian Garden Mall. Perhaps it was a slow week, but I came in twice on two different days and there was barely anybody inside. The banh xeo stall and nuoc mia/sugarcane stall were both closed during both days I visited which was super upsetting since those two places were the ones I wanted to try the most. Maybe I should try visiting on a busy weekend, but man was this place underwhelming. The San Jose Vietnam Town plaza was a lot more nice to walk around and had better vendors in the area. I would probably have rated this place a star higher if both those places I wanted to visit were open.

Michael L.

We were recently here for the CNY celebrations and man, this place was humming! My mother would have said, people mountain people sea, which in Cantonese means loads of people. I knew this place would be packed, especially on the 1st day of CNY & that was why i wanted to come. I told the girlfriend don't bother going to Chinatown because the Vietnamese knows how to put on a show and they did not disappoint. This shopping plaza reminds me of the mall in the OC's Little Saigon, except it is larger, cleaner and newer. So many restaurants, boba shops, sandwich shops, bakeries and everything in between can be found here. We stayed most of the day because there was also a mini carnival set up plus the lion dance and the street gambling. So much stimulation for the senses.

** PATRONS BEWARE ** YOUR CARS WILL BE TOWED!!! We visited this area frequently in the past and tonight we have witnessed something disgusting that worth reporting: SO MANY CARS got towed tonight. Granted: these cars parked in the "barely visible" Loading zone (you literally cannot see these marks especially at night due to poor markings and lightning - See attached photo). There is not much parking for patrons so it is obvious these slots are easy targets. Based on one shop owner that we talked to, who is against this towing practice: The security guard who drives around will guide and direct "Morris-and-Son" fleet of towing vehicles, and each vehicle got towed (which is a minimum $450 to retrieve) and the mall owner will get a $50 cut from Morris-and-Son company. We would never come here ever again until this practice is stopped + more parking spots for patrons + Marking are clear and visible. (Separate note: so many vehicles with broken windows in this mall for years, and that should be the main focus of the Mall owner(s), not this BS towing for profits! Shame on you, Grand Century Mall management and Security crew! Be BETTER!!)

Waited over 20 minutes just for 3 drinks
steve t.

Here at the mall and it's nothing special. Went into a fruit shop and the lady(maybe the owner)all staring like we're about to rob the place. The store across from the fruit shop sells this raw meat snack(forgot the name)which should be in the refrigerator but it's not. It's on the table in the open. Went and ordered 3 drinks and waited over 20 minutes. Crazy slow.. Not much customer either. Definitely not for me. This mall is not your typical mall u go to just to let u know.

This Gifts Shop been around 4 years!
Thia L.

I love Grand Century Shopping Mall!!! I'm usually here at least twice a month! There are so many Restaurants, gifts shops, clothing, Jewelry, Florists, Paris Bakery, Toys, Phones Accessories, Cosmetics, Skincare, Herbals, Appliances, Tax Services, Musics, Arts, Hair and Nails Salons, Fresh rare fruits and produce, and so much more!!! It's home to approximately 100 businesses here! Mostly Vietnamese Products, an impressive food court reflecting the Diverse International San Jose Population is also a popular attraction. You can definitely find everything here! I truly enjoys the beautiful Atmospheres! Every Holidays and Especially Tet New Year celebrations , This Grand Century Mall is all lit up with Festive Displays and Fabulous Decorations. Almost Every shops have beautiful Traditional Art Designs, Plants and Floral Displays throughout the entire Mall. I am looking forward to This New Year Tet celebration every year with my friends and family!!!

Trang N.

I haven't been here since I was a kid. I remember it being packed with people and it seemed so big. It was pretty empty yesterday except for the food area. People were crowded into the stores that sold food. One of the lady employees tried to push my daughter out of the store and tell her to wait outside while I shopped. I told her no, she was a child and the lady pinched my daughter on her back. I grabbed my daughter away from her and told her she is not leaving plus she's a child and to not touch her. The lady then walked away and was shooing people to move out of the way. They were working fast pace and was trying to sell and pressure people to buy and leave in a hurry. Of course we don't have foods like this here where we live so we did end up buying a lot of foods to take home. They gave us plenty of trouble by not leaving room in grocery bags. The foods were so jammed packed that it was hard to carry the bags because they were too heavy and the bags were going to rip. Before I paid I asked for 2 extra bags and the lady said no. I told her I didn't want to buy the stuff then since I can't carry everything stuffed in 6 bags. She ended up giving me the two extra bag but I had to shuffle the foods around into the other bags. It was really irritating how rude these people are. Other stores employees at other shops just kept to themselves unless we asked about the price on the item. Employees would give me a price for items and my mom a different price for the item. If you stand there long enough browsing, they will lower the price. The benches and tables and chairs inside are not available to use. They are all blocked off. Foods are to go only. We got sugarcane drinks and it tasted pretty gross. It was more of a syrup like drink. We make sugarcane drinks at home and they are plenty sweet without adding anything and their sugarcane was not sweet. They added possibly flavored syrup or canned fruit syrup. The foods we ended buying weren't good and way overpriced too. I probably would come back here if my mom wanted to, otherwise I would find other Asian markets to purchase from. My mom said that the foods was very disappointing and everything was not good except for the fried shredded pork in the plastic containers.

Half a container of jackfruit for $15 (it was $6/lb)
Chyna C.

There are three hallways of stores in this mall, and it's filled with jewelry, food court, prepared foods, fruit, dried jerky, apparel, and home decoration stores. It was our first time there and we bought Hawaiian lychees and cut up fresh jackfruit from the fruit store, and a sugarcane drink from the food court (they don't have plain sugarcane listed on the menu but we asked if we could have it and they said yes). Medium sugarcane drink is $6 and definitely worth it! The jackfruit and lychees were $6/lb, so ended up being $15 each. So yummy!

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Amazing place! Very centric to Asian and in particular Vietnamese food and shopping!

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no parking..... tow company so riff off, they might cut profit with those management of the mall

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Was in a rush. White Rd. & Story Rd. Looking down Story Rd. towards Capitol Expwy
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