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Someone please give me a crash course 101 on Filipino food. There's a Seafood City nearby but I pretty much don't go.
I have very limited exposure to real Filipino food, ranging from Jolibee and Max's, breakfast at Its Good Ha, to Sesig (without knowing what it was) and San Miguels about 20 years ago somewhere in Manila.
I imagine other Asians must feel the same way about non "mainstream" Korean food, the way I do about non "mainstream" Filipino food. Unknown and risky.
There are too many familiar options but I do want to expand. For Koreans, even can be food very "situational" and has "context". But I have always Korean dishes and ingredients are the most non threatening and "easy" of our different Asian cuisines.
Want real Filipino food, avoid goldilocks.
There is a bomb Filipino spot in San Bruno called "patio Filipino" I didn't really start eating traditional Filipino food til I got to my mid 20s. Mainly cause i was only exposed to whack restaurants. My girl found some legit ones and I'd eat there 10/10.
Not sure about Sea Food City's turo-turo since i haven't been there in a minute, but If you have an Island Pacific around you, they have their own little turo-turo restaurant as well and they're pretty good, at least the one close by me. They have great selection of dishes ranging from kare-kare, bopis, bistek, sinigang na baboy, chop suey, mongo, goat or beef kaldereta, chicharron bulaklak, bbq on a stick, crispy pata, dinuguan, etc. That joint practically has the closest and most authentic Filipino food you'll eat. My parents usually go there to buy a few dishes when they're too lazy to cook at home, .