/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Can you get Filipino food where you live? For the longest time I wondered why there were so few Filipino restaurants, but I just recently made a discovery. They exist, and they are hiding in plain sight. It turns out that a lot of Filipino places style themselves as teriyaki/rice bowl/Chinese/generic “oriental” food places on the outside, with nondescript names like, “teribowl paradise” or “rice mart” or whatever. But if you look closely, you might see the letters “atbp” after the name. Atbp is the Tagalog equivalent of “etc.”, and means that, while you can get your generic teriyaki salmon over rice, it’s actually a Filipino restaurant, run by Filipinos, and selling Filipino food.

>dinuguan (pork blood stew with pork shoulder and liver)
>pancit
>rice
>lumpia