Pamana

Great Filipino Food!
Friendly and fast service, and in a great, quiet location. No need to dress this place up, all you need to know is that all the Filipino families come HERE to eat — so you know it’s good.
Try to not be too tempted by all the adobo and lechon and balance out the meal with some vegetable dishes.

I was so happy to have a Filo restaurant open near where I work and also rather close to where we live. I’ve been here a couple of times already and have tried a wide selection of their food.
It’s a bit hit-​and-​miss, some dishes are really outstanding while others were pretty bad to downright terrible.
The good dishes I’ve had are:
— bulalo (oxtail soup)
— kaldereta (beef in a tomato based sauce)
— embusilog (embutido, rice and egg)
— crispy pata (crispy pork knuckles)
— bicol express (pork in a spicy coconut sauce)
— adobo rice (fried rice with pork adobo flakes)
— sizzling sisig
— dinuguan (pork in blood stew)
Pretty bad are:
— pork adobo (I felt like it had too much soy sauce and not enough vinegar)
— kare kare (bland peanut sauce and it this weird woody taste)
Downright terrible is the tapsilog. It was so dry and overcooked that it had absolutely no flavour left. Their sago gulaman is way too sweet as well.
My friend claims the tinapa rice was really good but I haven’t had the chance to try it yet.
The place is small so be prepared to wait if you come for lunch or dinner on a weekend. The all day breakfast silog meals are appropriately priced at $ 12/​$ 13 while the mains start from $ 16. Pretty good value if you ask me.