I live in Vegas, and sad to say. Our Filipino restaurants are simply not up to par with other restaurants. We don't even have a Fine Dining place. Sure, we have a Jollibee, Goldilocks, Red Ribbon, Chowking and all that, but they're not what I call authentic Filipino.
I'm also from Cebu, and all the Filipino food places I've sampled don't have what I'm used to.

This thread is for Sharing your experiences in Filipino Cuisine. I'll give share some of Cebu's best dishes, restaurants, and all that good stuff.

Food

In many restaurants we eat rice packed in these little weaved pouches, its called puso.

We serve it with almost anything from Barbecue(meat on sticks), lechon, roast chicken,

We Cebuanos are fanatical about skewering or more popularly known as Barbecue

We all love Halo-Halo, but I like my Buko Pandan and that thing in the bottom I forgot its name but its really good or a mango for desert.

Places

Laguna Garden Cafe is one of the premier restaurants for Authentic Filipino Fine Dining.

Some of these dishes are not exclusive to Cebu, BTW (The pics are Fresh Lumpia, crispy kangkong, lechon kawali and calamares)
locations are soon to open in Manila, Bacolod, Cagayan de Oro.

Sutukil

They serve the catch of day right there in the restaurant, you have your pick, and they cook it up.

Its great place to have lunch when your spending the day in the beach with your Family and Friends. Very Authentic, dont you agree?

Lighthouse Restaurant

Thats the interior, all Cebuano crafted furtinure

I don't know what that is, but it looks good. I think thats pork belly underneath, so good.
Anyway, I can't seem to find any more pictures, but what I can tell you is that its a really cool place, great Filipino dishes, and a band plays old Filipino Music(kinda like a Mariachi but with barong tagalog as uniforms)

Golden Cowrie

First of, I do not know them.


Feast!


So much more. I'm sure other places have a wealth of colonary delights too.

I was researching restaurants in Cebu and found this.
A Filipino Restaurant in Old City, Philidelphia called CEBU Its f*ing nice.

Can you air mail me some jollibees?

oh hell, im hungry! i miss kadjus. thats a regional food, too.

recipes!

Nakakagutom....

Thanks Torete. I've tried most of those dishes but could never quite remember their names. Now I know.

I haven't even eaten breakfast or lunch yet while I'm doing this and it's already 2 pm.

Ohh I'm currently obsessed with Braza de Mercedes and Piaya!

I want more Piaya . . . . .

P.S: LOL I had Chinese and Japanese take out for dinner, that's quite a shame !

when its cold outside its good to have some tinola w/ chicken.

Lets keep it authentic. Jollibee, Greenwich, Chowking, Red Ribbon, its all very commercialized.


Isn't baked Tahong the sht.

Lapulapu with Tausi Sauce (Grouper with Black Bean Sauce)


Pochero(a stew comprising a combination of a variety of meats)


Green Mango and Bagoong


Pork Belly


Baked Scallops

alottaa unhealthhyy stufff...

lechon de leche

tinolang manok

pochero

menudo

caldereta

guisado

adobo

calamansi juice

this thread is making me hungry.............

Sisig!!!

So true Ive been craving tinola for while now. Tugnaw diri pirmi sa Montreal eh hahaha.

Man, when I get back to Cebu, I'm packin' a few pounds.

nothing is healthy in this world, kid.

even though Filipino food is boiled , BBQ, and roasted unlike lets say chinese food which alot of is fried.

Where do you go to school? I used to go to Cebu City Science High. Every now and then, we would just buy a bunch of roasted chickens from a side street vendor, barbecue, some puso(hanging rice), 2 liter cokes, and have a good time eating in the classroom or in the grass at the campus. Cebu is one of the few places in the Philippines were Barbecue has really taken off. The food is what I miss most of all, well, after my relatives, wait, yeah.

recolletos school(cebu)

neh... don't eat street foods though
there was this one time a friend of mine asked me to eat with 'em
then after that; god my stomach was so painful and I had LBM for several days

LOL

Anyone here familiar with the TV show "Tablescapes"? Every week is a different province visited and they feature its local cusine, too. Grabe, kakagutom yung mga pagkain na nafi-feature. Loved the episode on Iloilo.

When I visited Cebu, I came across "tago-angkan". It's basically the chicken's womb with eggs [both developed and not] packed inside then grilled with barbecue sauce. Pictures:



The eggs are first boiled then stuffed into the chicken's placenta:


Then grilled:


That was my first time to taste and see this kind of food. If you don't enjoy eggs, stay away from this one.

so u put eggs inside the chicken part??

loved the pics!

lapulapu is grouper? coolio




i want sugba kilaw!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hehehe, nakakaawa naman karamihan dito sa inyo... halos wala pala kayo dito sa Pinas... saaraaap talaga pagkain dito.. hit na hit ngayon sa metro manila ang dampa-style na restos. fresh sea foods, especially. swabe.

yes! hehehe! i agree