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Filipina Soul

Archive for the ‘Filipino Eats - Worldwide’ Category

September 26th, 2008

What is your "Pinoy Comfort Food"?

Carla Martel featured a story about savoring Pinoy comfort food at The Coffee Beanery in Shangri-La Plaza Mall in Mandaluyong. That led me to reminisce what my own comfort foods are.
What do I cook/eat when I’m nostalgic for Filipino cuisine?
It is definitely pork adobo, with hot steamed rice of course. Another favorite […]

By Grace -- 2 comments

March 14th, 2008

Coconut vodka (95% proof) / "Lambanog with guava juice" and other ‘Loco over Coco’ entrees (entries)

Loco Over Coco? The Filipinos are!
Last month we wrote several articles on The Tree of Life - the coconut, with its variety of uses - from food to building materials to containers and stuff.
Kai at Bucaio (which is made from sweetened coconut) appropriately rounded up the posts. (update - Maricar did post […]

By Grace -- 5 comments

September 4th, 2007

A Travelling Carinderia in Miami

If you ever find yourself in the Port of Miami, look around and see if you can spot a restaurant-and-sari-sari on wheels. This rolling carindiria is owned and manned by Irving Matutina. He caters mostly to Filipino crew members taking a break from their work on cruise ships like the Royal Caribbean’s Liberty of the […]

By Maricar -- 5 comments

February 27th, 2007

Eggroll Lumpia Factory

Since I started this series called Filipino Eats - Worldwide, it seems that Filipino restaurants have been in the news more often (or maybe I’m just more aware?).
This latest review is of the Eggroll Lumpia Factory, a restaurant in Chandler, Arizona. Howard Seftel, writing for the Arizona Republic, describes it thus:

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By Maricar -- 3 comments

February 25th, 2007

Two Filipino Restaurants in Philly

Two restaurants in Philadelphia offer different takes on Philippine cuisine.

The first one, Manila Bay Bar and Grill (above), billed as the first and only fully authentic Filipino restaurant in the Delaware Valley region. Take a look at their website and you’ll find the familiar lumpiang shanghai, tokwa’t baboy, pork sinigan, kare-kare and a lot more. […]

By Maricar -- 0 comments

February 20th, 2007

DJ Bibingkahan in Carson, CA

Sister Y of Chowhound reviews DJ Bibingkahan’s Carson branch and describes it as “Filipino food that moved me“. She had some chicken on a skewer, roast pork and laing. Here’s how she described the experience:

After my horrible day (one of my colleagues ended up fired, if that tells you the kind of day it was) […]

By Maricar -- 3 comments

January 30th, 2007

Filipino Restaurants Around the World

Hey, dear readers, I’m putting out a call for information about Filipino restaurants around the world. If you know of any good ones, please let the rest of us in on the secret by leaving the name and location of the restaurant in the comments. Filipino cuisine doesn’t seem to get a lot of press, […]

By Maricar -- 10 comments