The Makan Post: PINOY FESTIVE IHAW IHAW: FILIPINO FOODS

Right after Kuching Fest, we planned to go eat some filipinos food after. There was this place at padungan road, where the signs are bright and neon. PINOY FIESTA IHAW IHAW. It always distracted me when I go through that area and when we saw the other night, we made plans to really go there for dinner. I mean we all say that sort of thing, we should eat there next time, but we get comfortable with our usual restaurant and we don't. But fun thing about running a blog, you get to have motivation to have yourself go there and eat at that restaurant.

So off we went to Pinoy. It's bright place, with pictures on the walls of reminders of Philippines with rickshaw and donkeys paintings on the tiles. It was quite empty because it was already later in the night. So our food came pretty quickly. The atmosphere was lovely, with old songs from previous generations ago coming out. The waitress explained that her grandmother collects old CDs. By the way, service in the place was good, the waitress I think is the granddaughter of whoever owns the place and was very friendly and talked to us about the food we were eating. Explaining to us things we had never heard about.

We ordered a couple of things. SISIG BABOY. It's tomato and pork skin and eggs inside with chopped onions and a lime to squeeze atop on.

I like this the most out of all the rest. It came in a hot sizzling plate, still hearing the sizzle. The pork skins and some pork meat in there were cooked well, with this sort of chewy yet crunchy texture. The lime took out the fattiness in the dish and add some tartiness which I welcomed.

And then the TORTANG TALONG, just eggplant and egg.

It was eggplant and egg, seasoned well and crispy. I got the feeling they used alot of egg in Fillipino food. I also heard they do pork alot as well. Villages would roast whole pigs for festive dinners. So you could say they were quite good.