love filipino food, but some comments:

- many filipino restaurants i've been to (outside of NYC) close early...like 7pm...8pm. many times, you have to be seated by 530pm because that's when the kitchens start closing down.

- some places call them "restaurants", but they are more like turo turo serving food on styrofoam plates/bowls serving luke warm food.

- when you order kare kare in most sit down table service restaurants, they use frozen/band saw cut oxtail that comes out dry and crumbly. you rarely find fresh whole oxtails being used

when we try new filipino restaurants, we test them by ordering some of the following:

- lumpiang shanghai

- kare kare

- crispy pata

- pinakbet

- sisig

- pancit

- halo halo