who cater to their own people in their restaurants.

I mean seriously if you go to a filipino retaurant in the US. You will find out that a majority of the customers are filipino.

But if you go to a chinese restaurant or sometimes Thai and Vietnamese, you will find out that there is equally the same or more non-asian customers then asian customers in their restaurant. Like they were targeting non-asian customers or something.

lol what restaurants have you been going to... more non asian then asian? yeah ok buddy. anyway, even if that happens where you live its
because non asians are more familiar with chinese,thai,viet etc than flip.

I live in Virginia, and more white people eat at chinese restaurants then actual chinese people where I live. Maybe it has to do with the fact that chinese restaurants don't serve real chinese food?

yeah man, a new filipino resturaunt just opened here in MD and it theres never any thing but filipinos in there...

i think if we display a letchon/roasting pig in front it would attract alot of people...or Animal Rights activist for humane treatment...

lol what are the so called chinese restaurants serving then? i duno, maybe the restaurants changed what they serve to compensate for the white people. if there isn't enough actual chinese going to the restaurants, then i guess naturally they would change what they serve to stuff white people would like. then in turn, even less chinese would go.

Is Sweet and sour chicken, beef and brocoli, french fries, and fortne cookies real chinese food?

lol thats the kind of food you get at Manderin. so westernized and so common. i can already tell that the restaurants been white washed to serve white people.

i guess theres your answer lol. more white people than chinese because teh restaurants been changed to serve them.

Some Chinese resurants have 2 sets of menus. One set has more "Americanized" Chinese food. The other has traditional Chinese food.

Because our cuisine is not as mainstream as say chinese, japanese or thai. I personally like it like that though, that way i can always see the look on persons face when i tell them what dinuguan is made of lol.

Well, I don't know about you, but I live in L.A. and when I was in a Filipino restaurant, there were rows of young non-Asian males devouring all the Filipino food they could eat. They seemed to have enjoyed it too. I think our food is just very underrated. I like the taste of our food and someday, it will be very well-known

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same with khmer restaurants.. i hardly see any foreign customers..

maybe its because filipino food is nasty? I dont know any other people who eat balut, nasty.

You sound ignorant. Filipinos aren't the only people who eat balut as a delicacy. AND there's more to Filipino food than Balut.

Excuse me !!! DonkeySlayer

"Balut" or "Embryotic Duck Egg" is also a delicacy in Vietnam, Thailand , China , Laos........

Many South east countries eat that. It's not exclusive to Philippines.

^This Laotian kid probably grew up mostly in Minnesota or California not in Laos or IndoChina. Otherwise he would have known about balut also.
Balut


They eat Bird Nest Soup in China and IndoChina.
Bird's Nest Soup

Hmmm…I’m sure you ate nastier stuff at that Lao refugee camp you and your family lived at before coming to this country illegally, refugee. Rice and Rats for you.

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Trolls, go get a life

DonkeySlayer is a troll trying to flamebait..."ohhh im serious...ohhh take me seriously! " well pathetic idiot...

Koreans eat dog, too. They even have something similar to that of cattling ships.

dunnoe..never tried filipino food before..they should open one near where i live

filipno restaurants in hawaii tend to have lots of non Filipino people or non Native filipinos. however i do have to admit that white customers aren't as much as in chinese restaurants and or other asian restaurants ie viet, thai, etc.

let's face the fact that flips were much more indefinite than other asian despite of being 2nd asian refugee in usa..... we need someone or something that will going to uplift us in the crowd.... we need to be more creative when it comes to food, clothings and everything correlated with us.... we need encouragement from each other so that our goal to be known will pull off.....

it's because our food is an acquired taste

our food isn't balanced tasting as other asian foods (like say, viet food. viet food tastes so balanced and fresh ).

it's like... you try to throw in all the flavour as possible. it's not what people expect out of asian cuisine.

also i don't know of any upscale filipino restaurants. i'm sure non-filipinos would go if it was an upcale joint downtown.

i made an upscale filipino restaurant for a spanish project. <3 i still have the menu typed up on my computer.

haha....just look at the names

Probably more likely where restaurants are located etc. Im chinese and in some chinese restaurants theres more 50/50 asian/caucasians..other places 90/10 etc.... havent been to a filipino restaurant myself.. although i have some close filo friends..

i think lechon (roasted pig) is a chinese invention.

the ones that are really pinoy are
1. adobo
2. bicol express
3. longanisa
4. sinigang
5. kare-kare w/ bagoong

lechon may be a chinese invention, but i always thought it was spanish influenced seeing as how it is a spanish word:

Lechón = 'Suckling pig' en español.

http://www.weddingsatwork.com/culture_customs_chinese.shtml

Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Hawaiians also have roasted pig but they admit that it came from China.

i like filipino food though. im not so sure its so much of an aquired taste. a lot of people eat sashimi for japanese food, or kimchi for korean food and it can still be eaten by non japanese or korean. i personally think filipino is as exposed yet as other cuisines. but it would be great to see more filipino restaurants open up. i only know of two

Upscale Pinoy Restaurants in the USA

BARRIO FIESTA RESTAURANT
3821 W.6TH STREET
LOS ANGELES,CALIFORNIA.U.S.A
#(323) 668-2437

HAPAG KAINAN RESTAURANT
2537 SANTA FE AVENUE
LONG BEACH CALIFORNIA.U.S.A
#(213) 595-6689

BARRIO FIESTA RESTAURANT
3316 N.CENTRAL AVENUE
CHICAGO.ILLINOIS.U.S.A
#(773) 282-0885

hey i live in chicago. that place doesnt seem too far from me either. i might give it a go. i dont know if its the restaurant i went to years ago. i mostly got filipino food from friend's house parties and family stuff. upscale, do they mean like 3 star and up?

my cousin told me that theres a filipino restaurant somewhere in cali who serves filipino cuisine by day and serves mexican foods by afternoon..and its isnt as classy as the chinese restaurants or japanese restaurants..could it be maybe that we filipinos dont know how to promote our own culture...

Barrio Fiesta is a first class restaurant here in the Philippines and you should try the "Kare-Kare" w/ bagoong and "Bulalo" cow bone marrow soup, very delicious. Cooks and Waiters are required to be musicians here in Barrio Fiesta Philippines because after they serve and cook your food, they sing in front of you.

6. asosena

sinigang is a soup, right?

yes

and Asosena is Dog Stew

The filipino restaurants here in San Diego tend to be frequented by Filipino's but I always see other races and nationality's in there, mostly black and white folk. But that's probably because most of the restaurants are in areas where there is a large population of black folks and navy people.

As far as why chinese restaurants get a more diverse crowd? They're a lot more ubiquitous and they've been around forever, so they're just as common as "american" restaurants and they've become a part of american culinary culture.

yea but you have to try tinola.

it pwns all other soups.

My wife, who is Korean, says the same about Korean restaurants...mainly it is Koreans who eat at these establishments.

Korean food is quite often an acquired taste, isn't very well "Americanized".

I do enjoy the dishes of the Philippines but I'm not sure many people are really aware of Philippine dishes.

You know in Makati Philippines where i work, there are many korean restaurants and establishments and when i went inside one of the korean restaurants, i only see koreans eating but in Japanese and Chinese restaurants in that area, there are many filipinos, whites and asians eating. maybe chinese and japanese has that international appeal in terms of taste unlike korean and filipino food which only appeal to the locals.

i don't think it's the taste that matters, but the establishment. i mean why is chinese, japanese and thai cuisine more popular than other asian food. well chinese restaurants been around for ages in us, japan is a very well known country and they are good with marketing their culture, and lastly thailand is the destination stop of seasia, although it is not as popular as chinese or japanese, they do have a general taste that offer a seasian taste.

the barrio fiesta isn't as upscale here... seeing as how it doubles as a filipino grocery. :P

I enjoy eating in Filipino restaurants, the foods seem to be mostly stewed meats with sauce, and they use lots of vinegar, garlic in their cooking

they also have their steamed buns [siopao] and shanghai lumpia, bbq pork on a stick.

kalderetang Gambing [stewed goat] is pretty good, and a dish called "Bopis" is also good.

pansit [noodle dishes]

I like the pancit palabok and the pancit lo mein with fat noodles

it's pretty tasty food, Im getting hooked on it now

don't Barrio Fiesta have their specialties "in can" too?

^^ hey there's a barrio fiesta here in queens but it wasn't upscale or double as a grocery store

one funny thing about that place was when waitress didn't have anything to do they sang karaoke

never went to a filiphino resturants but sounds good....

all restaurants u noticed this age are aimed for hungry customers.....but customers need some knowledge and idea about the countrys food and how they cook it

most viets and chinese have estiblished an identity in many places in North America because they have a speciliaity dish that makes them famous and popular like pho , and dim sum..........
so non asian people know its good and will come to those restaurants... most viets and chinese are willing to open to all kinds of people... whether black or white and get tips from them as well