If you are looking for Filipino pastries and grandma ain't around to whip it up, Valerio's is good option. Red Ribbon is usually my spot, but has been getting a little mainstream these days. Both are still good IMO.
I never was really a sweets gut till I met my fiance, now I cannot resist getting the ube filled buns and couple of bags of pandesal. This place also has siopao, the Filipino version of manapuas for my tropical peeps and baos for my Chinese kin. The fillings are slightly different too and more closely related to Chinese style.
Oh and the ensemadas are on point as well. Hard to overcome the urge for good old fashioned homeland cooking. The trick is to buy ube ice cream and make an ice cream sandwich with the whole wheat pandesal, bam! Instant Bliss Baby!
Not much more to say about this place...they got you traditional bibingka, puto, buko rolls, cassava cake, leche flan, etc. But if you are looking for halo halo, tapioca or ginataan, you may need to go elsewhere. They may offer it at Chow King and Jollibee just around the corner inside Seafood City. The place is real small and can only access it from the outside and is not connected to Seafood City.
The staff is friendly, but just be cultural aware that if you are one of them, the language barrier and other cultural issues can lead to miscommunication. I hate reading reviews where people harp about the poor customer service, yet, they are simply culturally insensitive to the way things are and expect things to be how they want it to be, i find that so selfish...you know the whole, "well you live in the U.S....learn to speak English!" mentality that is so common amongst Westerners. Try moving to a different country and understand why they want to cut your head off on live TV...oops, its getting...its getting...its getting kinda hectic.
On a final note, ube ice cream + pandesal = peace.