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| - Have recently been craving the classic home-style Filipino breakfast that our old school Filipino grandparents/parents would literally raise us on every morning. I have been searching all over Toronto to get my Filipino breakfast fix and low and behold I found my satisfaction in this small hidden gem of a corner restaurant in Victoria Park.
In comparison, this place hands down has to be the best place for a classic Filipino breakfast - Tapcilog, Tocilog or Longcilog.
(For my non-Filipinos this means some type of marinated meat OR Longcilog - Sweet Filipino Sausage, all served with garlic fried rice topped with a couple of runny over easy eggs)
They provide good quality, tasty food. I need to stress the fact that they cook their Longanisa, Tocino, and Tapa FRESH. At most Filipino restaurants they prepare ALL their food pre-made and keep it in a food warming display. With Tapa, Tocino, and Longanisa this makes the meat dry and hard almost like unintentional meat jerky. Although they do have a variety of food in warming displays their breakfast is always made fresh to order which provides you with hot, tender and juicy meat. For the portion size of their food, the price is a steal you will definitely leave full and happy. This restaurant also doubles as a small Filipino convenient/grocery store and is very clean. I have to say I am pleasantly surprised and very satisfied. I highly recommend coming here for an affordable, filling, classic, tasty Filipino breakfast and will continue to come back.
Note for my English speaking or non-Filipinos:
All these meat dishes are served with Garlic Fried Rice and 2 runny over-easy eggs.
Tapcilog or Tapa - Garlic, soy sauce and lemon OR vinegar marinated pork or beef.
Tocilog or Tocino - Sweet, brown sugar, soy sauce and garlic marinated pork. MY FAVORITE AND YOU CANNOT GO WRONG.
Longcilog or Longanisa - Sweet and savory Filipino Sausage sort of tastes like Tocino in sausage form.
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