2/5 Jackie M. 1 year ago on Google
(2.5
stars)
Lazza
looks
more
like
a
nightclub
than
a
restaurant.
Icy
blue
rope
lights
cut
a
geometric
path
across
the
room’s
decorated
rafters.
A
cluster
of
Edison
bulbs
dangle
from
a
beam
hung
over
the
bar,
with
underset
lighting
casting
an
eerie
green
glow
onto
the
cement
floors.
It
says
you’re
somewhere
different
quite
loudly,
even
before
it
fills
up
with
smiling
Pinoy
family
groups.
They’re
here
for
boards
of
crispy
pata
kare-kare
($35)
where
deep-fried
pork
knuckle
is
hacked
apart
and
shared
with
vegetables
in
soupy
peanut
and
coconut
milk
sauce,
suka
at
toyo
(a
sauce
made
from
coconut
vinegar
and
soy
sauce),
and
a
chutney-like
sauce
that
goes
well
on
the
fairly
bland
meat.
I
prefer
the
Cebu-style
lechon
at
Sydney
Cebu
Lechon
in
Newtown.
Pork
sisig
($22)
served
on
a
sizzling
hot
plate
is
also
a
bit
bland
here:
even
a
good
squeeze
of
lemon
doesn’t
get
this
version
over
the
line.
The
best
version
of
this
dish
I’ve
tried
comes
just
down
the
road
in
Sydenham
at
Let’s
Chon,
though
I
also
rated
the
one
I
tried
at
the
hard-to-find
Pamana
in
Chatswood.
By
the
time
I
get
to
crispy
bicol
express
($22)
eaten
over
garlic
rice
($4)
I’ve
decided
it’s
the
over-cooking
of
the
pork
that’s
making
the
dishes
taste
off-kilter
for
me.
In
this
one
the
too-crisp
and
oily
pork
hunks
are
twice-cooked
in
a
spicy
coconut
and
shrimp
paste
sauce,
that
again
is
much
better
handled
by
Sydney
Cebu
Lechon.
We
weren’t
inclined
to
stay
around
to
try
dessert
like
the
happy
families
and
couples
surrounding
us.
I
suspect
Lazza
wins
“feels
like
home”
points
for
people
with
Filipino
backgrounds
that
makes
the
sum
of
its
parts
feel
greater
than
the
actual
food.
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