Nah. It's surface level. I'm pinoy too, btw. Older than YOU and grew up in the (deep) Mission, not the Ex. There are better places than the ones you went to and cheaper and something the old people like me can afford and are used to. Your friend should do more digging and hype places that aren't so trendy. Hell...there's a really good one just across the street from Kelloggs (sic). At this point, the vid looks to me like something that would appeal to mga puti. I think it's a bad assumption because you see Americans visiting back home who are literally eating lugaw and balut on the street in Tondo and are digging it. Yeh...have your friend do better. This is just ornamental and doesn't go deep enough to be inclusive of the greater Filipino experience in America.
The other comments to this ain't it. The point of this video is to foster community and give people an introduction to places and culture they may not have had access to. And the target audience is definitely younger - hence the business owners, artists, and creators that were featured. I also relate a lot to the perspectives in this video being a second generation Filipino American that grew up and still lives here in the bay. Spread love and knowledge and invite people into spaces where they can learn and discover. We already get criticized enough from bitter relatives at Christmas, we don't need to hear it in TH-cam comments too 😂 Perspective videos like this will never give you the full scope of a community, it's literally impossible to fit everyone's stories into one cohesive video. For us, the bay gives Filipinos love and we show it right back. 🤟
Your channel deserves A LOT more subs. Your videos introduced me to diverse food culture in the bay, and I truly appreciate it. I love what you’re doing man keep it up!
This is the undisputed best tour of Filipino food in the Bay Area 👏. Especially accompanied by local artists D1 and content creators Adonis. Exceptionally well made. So proud of what you’ve done.
Greetings from Tennessee! Awesome video! Grew up on top of the hill Daly City and soo thankful for showcasing the Filipino food around the area!!! Oh how I miss my home town soo much!
I grew up in Oakland, I almost 70 years young. I had a Filipino best girlfriend Maria and a Mexican best boyfriend Santos. I have eating ever since then, delicious . Love this show❤️. In fact I made it FOB Restaurant this past weekend. I took my friend from Eureka, Ca. If you haven’t try it, it’s a must try😋.
Thank you for creating this channel to showcase the diverse range of Asian food available in the Bay Area. I'm constantly amazed by how cuisine from various ethnicities evolves over time. For instance, when we think of Filipino food, we can appreciate its rich history and the cultural influences that have shaped it. Even today, it continues to evolve within our local communities.
My go-to Filipino restaurant is in Oakland: FOB Kitchen (in the Temescal Triangle). Their adobo is always on point, excellent fried chicken, quality cocktails, ecstatic halo halo, and their Filipino brunches on the weekend are delicious and you'll leave stuffed.
As a Filipino immigrant who still has a foot firmly planted in both countries (oh, and is married to a Chinese 😉), thank you for doing this video! I’ve been enjoying your videos for a while. I hope you can revisit more Filipino food in future episodes. (especially in the eastBay if possible heheh 🙏)
Why is Daly City always so foggy??? Cuz all the Filipino are working their rice cooker! 6:03 Joke told to me by a Filipino when I was kid growing up in Daly City
This episode is great as always. Growing up in the Filipino community in the east bay lots of dishes bring back good memories of friend's parties. Your channel name is pretty relevant to filipino cuisine and culture too as it reminds me of how even if I stopped by a friends house just for a few minutes and told their parents I already ate something I wouldnt be able to leave the house without them giving me some food first.
Born, raised and still in SF, I love this vid! I'm Chinese, but went to San Jose State and the majority of my sorority sisters are Filipina. I can attest to all the GREAT food at family parties (and when they bust out the Magic Mike it's off the hook!). And I can't forget all the aunties always asking me when I'm getting married😆! I frequent Tselogs (for palabok and lechon kawali) and Fil-Am is my weekly Friday lunch (for sisig + chicken skewers). I remember going to Ling Nam, Sinugba, and Lucky Chances after the club! I'm so happy I grew up in the Bay Area, where I can experience the Filipino culture🤗!
FilAm is my spot when I lived in Daly City 😭 I miss it! I moved out the bay earlier this year. Senor Sisig is a staple I’ve been a loyal customer when they were only a food truck. lucky three seven was the spot too! I’m from the east bay. One thing about the Bay Area is they know how to make good Filipino food out there!
Grew up in the bay, not pinoy but most all my friends were, and these spots hit home. Looking forward to bringing my kids around to all these spots to explore a version of “fusion” of bay area I grew up with
When I moved away, that's when I realized how many people didn't even know what a Filipino was let alone the food. I lived in Texas for a bit and Mexican workers would try talk to me in Spanish and they'd get pissed when I spoke English. They'd swear and insult me in Spanish thinking I didn't understand. I grew up in the Mission😂.
@@HiDidYouEatYetI live in Portland now and it's still a trip. My wife and I own a food cart (not Filipino food) and we got to know a lot of Mexican food cart owners. Still trips me out that they don't know Filipino food. The truth is that Bay Area has the true immigrant, making their way in America communities. The Filipinos up here are more whitewashed. The Vietnamese community up where would be the analog to the Filipinos in the Bay.
I had no idea a foodie video encompassing cultural norms and customs save the contrasting realities and harshness of life in the Philippines. I dared my nephew (recently retired in Phil.) to try "pagpag" or live remotely among NPA rebels just to find out if they eat more goat meat or dog meat.
Just the video/platform I’ve been waiting the last few wks to ask this question: Does anyone else feel like senor sisig has gotten bland? (Particularly in the last year) a few months ago I had the pork burrito it tasted unexpectedly bland especially when compared to the junipero Serra truck days… Last week I got a tofu bowl (and I wasn’t expecting Tslog’s quality but..) and it was offensively bland… it did not attempt to resemble authentic Filipino flavor or even Mexican flavor for that matter..(nothing in the bowl was seasoned) These experiences were both at the Valencia st location.. I’ve also tried the ferry building location a while back and remember that not being as good either Am I tripping or have they started “whitifying” their recipes.. Hasn’t been the same since they’ve started expanding Real sad 😢
I’m sure a lot of these spots are your homies and peers. But it would’ve been nice to highlight actual mom n pop stores that are non Fil-Am and even more authentic. No hate on, at all, on these modern Fil-Am fusion joints. Just seeking balance, because there’s plenty out here runned by our aunties and uncles from the motherland.
I highlighted 8 spots and 3 of them are mom and pops that have been around for a long time. This whole video shows the range of more tradition stuff all the way to the more modern stuff to showcase what Filipino cuisine can be. These older spots generally also don’t like to appear on camera so that’s why I had friends talk about them instead. There’s definitely way more Filipino restaurants that I would have loved to spotlight too, but can’t fit everything in one video. Also really difficult to coordinate filming with so many people and restaurants! We really like Parekoy Lutong Pinoy nearby us. Islas also fantastic. Thanks for watching.
The problem with Tselogs is everything is too expensive and the stuff doesn't taste like the way it should taste. They are experimenting and it always tastes like some kids were just playing around. Oh and the meat/egg over rice is $13. No. Just...no. The younger folk are trying to express Filipino pride on places like this but it's the wrong thing because the pricing is for mga puti not for mga kababayan who resent it. That and like I said, it just doesn't taste right.
I do understand your frustration with the prices but is that due to the business or economics? “Oh and the meat/egg over rice is $13. No just no” and you say is for “mga puti”, if that’s the case do you hold that same sentiment for Lucky Chances who charge $16.95? I remember when Superstar and Gateway Kitchen had silogs for $4 and now they range from $6-$8. I remember when super burritos at El Farolito were $6 and now they’re $15. A big bowl of Pho use to be $7 now $12-$13. Are all these restaurants catering for the “puti” or is it the rise of cost for everything here in the Bay Area, which is a whole different topic of its own. As far as taste, I have no argument there as everybody’s palate is different. We pilipinos will try someone else’s pilipino food and will say “My dad(or lola, or mom etc) makes this waaaayyy better” hahaha that’s just the love and pride we have for our families so I get it. But to bash a spot saying their pricing is for puti(white) and not for the kabayan is a bit disingenuous.
Everyone in the Bay Area got a Filipino homie.
If you don’t somethings wrong with you lol
For the most part, they're all good people. Don't think I've had any bad experiences.
💯💯💯
Multiple easily!
Everyone in the Bay Area is Filipino Lol
This might be the best video ever made on Filipino food culture in the Bay Area! (Okay, I’m biased 😂) 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Nah. It's surface level. I'm pinoy too, btw. Older than YOU and grew up in the (deep) Mission, not the Ex. There are better places than the ones you went to and cheaper and something the old people like me can afford and are used to. Your friend should do more digging and hype places that aren't so trendy. Hell...there's a really good one just across the street from Kelloggs (sic). At this point, the vid looks to me like something that would appeal to mga puti. I think it's a bad assumption because you see Americans visiting back home who are literally eating lugaw and balut on the street in Tondo and are digging it. Yeh...have your friend do better. This is just ornamental and doesn't go deep enough to be inclusive of the greater Filipino experience in America.
@@J3unG So true. The Original Flips from the older generation are for REAL. No brags just facts. Lincoln High 1969, USMC Vietnam Vet 1972
The other comments to this ain't it. The point of this video is to foster community and give people an introduction to places and culture they may not have had access to. And the target audience is definitely younger - hence the business owners, artists, and creators that were featured. I also relate a lot to the perspectives in this video being a second generation Filipino American that grew up and still lives here in the bay. Spread love and knowledge and invite people into spaces where they can learn and discover. We already get criticized enough from bitter relatives at Christmas, we don't need to hear it in TH-cam comments too 😂 Perspective videos like this will never give you the full scope of a community, it's literally impossible to fit everyone's stories into one cohesive video. For us, the bay gives Filipinos love and we show it right back. 🤟
@@justinpaz5576 just keeping it REAL! because being a POSER does not represent well. the dude from Union City needs to really represent.
😂
Seeing this make me feel a bit homesick growing in in east bay with all the good Filipino spots! Awesome video Victor and we got a PASA mention!
Your channel deserves A LOT more subs. Your videos introduced me to diverse food culture in the bay, and I truly appreciate it. I love what you’re doing man keep it up!
Appreciate that! We just getting started but share the channel with your friends and run it up 🙏
This is the undisputed best tour of Filipino food in the Bay Area 👏. Especially accompanied by local artists D1 and content creators Adonis. Exceptionally well made. So proud of what you’ve done.
Appreciate that! I’m glad you enjoyed it
Appreciate your comment! 🫡
Greetings from Tennessee! Awesome video! Grew up on top of the hill Daly City and soo thankful for showcasing the Filipino food around the area!!! Oh how I miss my home town soo much!
I grew up in Oakland, I almost 70 years young. I had a Filipino best girlfriend Maria and a Mexican best boyfriend Santos. I have eating ever since then, delicious . Love this show❤️. In fact I made it FOB Restaurant this past weekend. I took my friend from Eureka, Ca. If you haven’t try it, it’s a must try😋.
Great spot!
Thank you for creating this channel to showcase the diverse range of Asian food available in the Bay Area. I'm constantly amazed by how cuisine from various ethnicities evolves over time.
For instance, when we think of Filipino food, we can appreciate its rich history and the cultural influences that have shaped it. Even today, it continues to evolve within our local communities.
This was good to see. Lucky Chances was definitely our late night after party spot, many moons back. Thank you for your work 🙌🏽
Lucky chances is a hidden gem fs!
Appreciate it!
I’m in the Bay (near Vallejo) and can’t wait to try these spots!
one of the best episodes yet 🤝🇵🇭
🫡🫡🫡
My go-to Filipino restaurant is in Oakland: FOB Kitchen (in the Temescal Triangle). Their adobo is always on point, excellent fried chicken, quality cocktails, ecstatic halo halo, and their Filipino brunches on the weekend are delicious and you'll leave stuffed.
shout out FOB Kitchen!
Your perspective and editing just keep getting better and better. Keep on keeping on!
Thanks for watching! Appreciate the love.
Amazing video as usual. I love the respect you give to all the different communities you showcase in your videos.
Appreciate it! Thanks for watching
As a Filipino immigrant who still has a foot firmly planted in both countries (oh, and is married to a Chinese 😉), thank you for doing this video!
I’ve been enjoying your videos for a while. I hope you can revisit more Filipino food in future episodes.
(especially in the eastBay if possible heheh 🙏)
Appreciate it haha thanks for watching!
Why is Daly City always so foggy???
Cuz all the Filipino are working their rice cooker! 6:03
Joke told to me by a Filipino when I was kid growing up in Daly City
legit hitters the whole vid, great research
This episode is great as always. Growing up in the Filipino community in the east bay lots of dishes bring back good memories of friend's parties. Your channel name is pretty relevant to filipino cuisine and culture too as it reminds me of how even if I stopped by a friends house just for a few minutes and told their parents I already ate something I wouldnt be able to leave the house without them giving me some food first.
Thanks for watching! Definitely a shared experience there lol
Born, raised and still in SF, I love this vid! I'm Chinese, but went to San Jose State and the majority of my sorority sisters are Filipina. I can attest to all the GREAT food at family parties (and when they bust out the Magic Mike it's off the hook!). And I can't forget all the aunties always asking me when I'm getting married😆!
I frequent Tselogs (for palabok and lechon kawali) and Fil-Am is my weekly Friday lunch (for sisig + chicken skewers). I remember going to Ling Nam, Sinugba, and Lucky Chances after the club! I'm so happy I grew up in the Bay Area, where I can experience the Filipino culture🤗!
Shout out SJSU! Met a lot of Filipino friends at SJSU too cuz we did a lot of stuff with Akbayan when I was in PASA at CSUEB
That Kare kare looks 🔥🎯
Lucky 37 and his aunties make such good home food. They give you like long lumpias! And they are so friendly
Thanks for the overview. As someone who grew up in the midwest I've been intimidated about where to start with filipino food and this really helps!
Hope you enjoy it!
Thank you for this! 💛 Maybe you can also feature Filipino women restaurant owners in the future
isn’t Tselogs owned by a pinay?
Definitely! Just happened to be like this this time around, but didn’t purposely leave out women owners and creators in this one
FilAm is my spot when I lived in Daly City 😭 I miss it! I moved out the bay earlier this year. Senor Sisig is a staple I’ve been a loyal customer when they were only a food truck. lucky three seven was the spot too! I’m from the east bay. One thing about the Bay Area is they know how to make good Filipino food out there!
Just wanted to say love your videos!
Grew up in the bay, not pinoy but most all my friends were, and these spots hit home. Looking forward to bringing my kids around to all these spots to explore a version of “fusion” of bay area I grew up with
Thanks for watching!
this was a good video.... the Eats by E food especially looks absolutely ridiculous.. gonna try to catch him next time
Thanks so much for highlighting these amazing places in our local backyard!
Appreciate the love! Thanks for watching.
When I moved away, that's when I realized how many people didn't even know what a Filipino was let alone the food. I lived in Texas for a bit and Mexican workers would try talk to me in Spanish and they'd get pissed when I spoke English. They'd swear and insult me in Spanish thinking I didn't understand. I grew up in the Mission😂.
lmaoo that’s hella funny. Definitely glad we live in a super diverse hub
@@HiDidYouEatYetI live in Portland now and it's still a trip. My wife and I own a food cart (not Filipino food) and we got to know a lot of Mexican food cart owners. Still trips me out that they don't know Filipino food. The truth is that Bay Area has the true immigrant, making their way in America communities. The Filipinos up here are more whitewashed. The Vietnamese community up where would be the analog to the Filipinos in the Bay.
@@ronsanpedro1213 Whats your food cart called?
great episode 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Appreciate it!
I drive all the way from Livermore just to eat at Chibogs!!
I’m full Viet from the bay, but my best friend and my fiance are both Filipino. They say I’m honorary lol I also went to Fil-Am club in school
I love kare kare!
I had no idea a foodie video encompassing cultural norms and customs save the contrasting realities and harshness of life in the Philippines. I dared my nephew (recently retired in Phil.) to try "pagpag" or live remotely among NPA rebels just to find out if they eat more goat meat or dog meat.
This is amazing
Gotta look for the Indonesian Food next
Definitely on my queue
Wheres the Best sinigang in the bay area? Been craving it. Any recommendations pls. Im coming from modesto.
i need to check out tselog 👀
Lucky chance garlic rice lunginisa!
no fort mckinley???
What’s the history of Filipinos in Fruitvale? My neighbor is always talking about how there used to be a huge community there
never heard of a huge community on fruitvale. & i was born & raised in oakland.
@ she’s elderly so it would have been in the 70’s or 80’s
Just the video/platform I’ve been waiting the last few wks to ask this question:
Does anyone else feel like senor sisig has gotten bland? (Particularly in the last year)
a few months ago I had the pork burrito it tasted unexpectedly bland especially when compared to the junipero Serra truck days…
Last week I got a tofu bowl (and I wasn’t expecting Tslog’s quality but..) and it was offensively bland… it did not attempt to resemble authentic Filipino flavor or even Mexican flavor for that matter..(nothing in the bowl was seasoned)
These experiences were both at the Valencia st location..
I’ve also tried the ferry building location a while back and remember that not being as good either
Am I tripping or have they started “whitifying” their recipes..
Hasn’t been the same since they’ve started expanding
Real sad 😢
Shout out to all the Swagapinos
❤❤❤
Thanks for being a part of this again 🙏
🌁🇵🇭💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽
Try Patio Filipino Restaurant 1770 El Camino Real, San Bruno. Good Pinoy Foods, der Letchon is 🔥😎👌🏽
Yessirrr
Where’s the shout out to Spintronix and Qbert in repping the music scene - which have a world wide influence?
J/k.
Hey man, this is a food spotlight video.
@ - you may missed the “j/k” at the bottom of my comment ✌🏼
I’m sure a lot of these spots are your homies and peers. But it would’ve been nice to highlight actual mom n pop stores that are non Fil-Am and even more authentic. No hate on, at all, on these modern Fil-Am fusion joints. Just seeking balance, because there’s plenty out here runned by our aunties and uncles from the motherland.
I highlighted 8 spots and 3 of them are mom and pops that have been around for a long time. This whole video shows the range of more tradition stuff all the way to the more modern stuff to showcase what Filipino cuisine can be. These older spots generally also don’t like to appear on camera so that’s why I had friends talk about them instead.
There’s definitely way more Filipino restaurants that I would have loved to spotlight too, but can’t fit everything in one video. Also really difficult to coordinate filming with so many people and restaurants! We really like Parekoy Lutong Pinoy nearby us. Islas also fantastic.
Thanks for watching.
@ understandable 👍🏽 thanks for the good work bro. Hope you didn’t take my criticism negatively.
It’s all good, I appreciate any feedback as long as it’s constructive and valuable!
I thought y'all weren't real filipinos because I couldn't see the shrimp-paste at first 😂
The problem with Tselogs is everything is too expensive and the stuff doesn't taste like the way it should taste. They are experimenting and it always tastes like some kids were just playing around. Oh and the meat/egg over rice is $13. No. Just...no.
The younger folk are trying to express Filipino pride on places like this but it's the wrong thing because the pricing is for mga puti not for mga kababayan who resent it. That and like I said, it just doesn't taste right.
I do understand your frustration with the prices but is that due to the business or economics? “Oh and the meat/egg over rice is $13. No just no” and you say is for “mga puti”, if that’s the case do you hold that same sentiment for Lucky Chances who charge $16.95? I remember when Superstar and Gateway Kitchen had silogs for $4 and now they range from $6-$8. I remember when super burritos at El Farolito were $6 and now they’re $15. A big bowl of Pho use to be $7 now $12-$13. Are all these restaurants catering for the “puti” or is it the rise of cost for everything here in the Bay Area, which is a whole different topic of its own.
As far as taste, I have no argument there as everybody’s palate is different. We pilipinos will try someone else’s pilipino food and will say “My dad(or lola, or mom etc) makes this waaaayyy better” hahaha that’s just the love and pride we have for our families so I get it. But to bash a spot saying their pricing is for puti(white) and not for the kabayan is a bit disingenuous.