Customers drive 3.5 hours to eat at this Filipino grocer

Anyone can visit this small grocer for a taste of authentic Filipino food.

Happy Hut is a Filipino grocer and store where people can dine in on traditional dishes. (Sofia Levin) Source: SBS Food

Ask Ligaya Binuya, owner of Happy Hut in Albanvale, how she came up with the name of her Filipino store and she'll flash you a signature smile.

"Because of my name. My name, Ligaya, means happy," she says.

Formerly a fish and chip shop, the nondescript brick building on an intersection 19 kilometres west of Melbourne city has shelves stocked with imported Filipino products and serves traditional dishes from bain-maries.

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