5/5 George W. 11 months ago on Google • 20 reviews
I
ordered
pork
adobo,
strawberry
soda,
and
ube
taro
bubble
tea
on
ubereats
on
deliveroo.
The
food
arrived
piping
hot
despite
me
being
located
in
the
city
centre
and
the
restaurant
being
located
in
Smethwick.
Everything
was
DELICIOUS.
Filipino
cuisine
has
a
lot
of
Spanish
influence
alongside
Chinese
and
Indian
influence
due
to
the
history
of
colonialism
and
trade.
I've
become
very
familar
with
Spanish
cuisine
due
to
me
travelling
to
Lanzarote
(Spanish
island
in
the
Canarias)
nearly
every
year
with
family
since
I
was
a
baby.
The
adobo
reminded
me
a
lot
of
an
Iberian
pork
dish
I
had
in
Lanzarote
but
minus
the
hefty
price
tag
of
Iberian
pork,
so
the
meat
used
is
clearly
great
quality
if
it
is
comparable
to
Iberian
pork.
The
strawberry
soda
was
also
incredible,
and
made
me
nostalgic
for
diabolo
fraise,
a
drink
using
strawberry
syrup
and
French
lemonade
that
I
would
frequently
drink
when
on
holiday
in
France
(another
frequent
travel
destination
of
mine,
and
I
was
slightly
disappointed
when
I
could
only
find
1
restaurant
that
served
it
when
I
visited
Paris
for
the
first
time,
as
I
previously
had
only
been
to
provinces
in
the
north
and
south
of
France
that
commonly
served
the
drink).
The
ube
taro
bubble
tea
was
also
great,
the
tapioca
pearls
were
the
perfect
texture
and
weren't
too
firm
unlike
a
couple
of
bubble
tea
chains
that
I've
visited
before.
If
you've
never
had
ube
before,
I
can
best
describe
it
as
being
a
nutty,
vanilla-like
flavour.
I
was
first
introduced
to
Filipino
cuisine
through
the
show
Steven
Universe,
where
a
character
named
Lars
was
hinted
at
being
Filipino
when
he
baked
an
ube
cake
roll
in
an
episode.
At
the
same
time
I
was
starting
my
GCSE
Food
Preparation
and
Nutrition
coursework,
where
I
chose
the
prompt
of
'based
off
Asian
cuisine'
and
focused
on
Filipino
cuisine
as
I
was
curious
about
trying
the
cuisine
after
seeing
it
featured
in
my
favourite
show
of
that
time.
I'm
already
pretty
familar
with
Filipino
cuisine
due
to
this
(and
I
very
proudly
earned
an
8
(grade
equivalent
to
an
A)
in
said
GCSE).
Filipino
food
is
criminally
underrated
as
in
my
opinion
there's
something
for
everyone.
If
you
enjoy
Spanish
food,
definitely
give
Filipino
food
a
try
as
the
Spanish
influence
means
that
there's
a
familiarity
of
flavours,
especially
garlic
and
onion.
If
you're
as
crazy
about
garlic
as
I
am
(there's
no
such
thing
as
too
much
garlic
for
me!),
definitely
try
the
adobo
as
it's
lovely
and
garlicky
(I'll
get
the
garlic
rice
too
next
time,
I
had
to
make
a
small
sacrifice
of
getting
plain
rice
last
night
as
I
didn't
want
customers
to
smell
garlic
on
me
at
work
today
as
I
work
somewhere
that
sells
macarons).
Super
interested
to
try
the
other
dishes
available,
such
as
the
kare
kare
(unsure
of
if
the
version
here
uses
offal,
but
as
someone
who
has
tried
chicken
feet
and
loved
them,
a
little
bit
of
offal
doesn't
discourage
me).
Filipino
food
also
isn't
typically
spicy,
so
if
you
want
to
really
get
into
an
Asian
cuisine
but
you
aren't
huge
on
spice
(such
as
myself,
I
do
enjoy
spice
to
the
extent
of
Nando's
'hot'
being
my
limit,
but
I
tend
to
avoid
spicy
food
as
it's
one
of
my
GERD
triggers),
Filipino
food
is
definitely
for
you!
Don't
be
discouraged
from
trying
Filipino
food
just
because
of
infamous
foods
that
you've
heard
of
such
as
balut,
as
Filipino
cuisine
is
so
much
more
than
that!
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