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| - FV Foods is a Filipino grocery store that has a bakery and they also serve hot food (fast food style). My parents and I had lunch here recently. This location has a nice eating area and there's free coffee (serve yourself).
None of the food is labelled, so I had to point and ask what everything was. I'm sorry that I don't know the names of any of the dishes, so I'll just describe them. We got 2 combos that came with 2 meat choices and rice or noodles ($7.99 each) and then we got 6 spring rolls and a beef empanada. This was enough food for 3 people.
For one of the combos we got a beef stew that had five-spice seasoning in it and another beef stew that was tomato based with white rice. For the other combo we got a dish that was shredded banana blossoms with ground pork and a dish that was squid with white rice.
Overall I found the food flavourful and tasty, but way too oily. So for the rice, they rub oil into a bowl, then they scoop the rice into the bowl and press it in, then the flip they bowl upside down onto your plate and you have a perfect smooth mound of rice. Looks pretty, but now the rice is so oily!
The tomato-based beef stew was really oily too. It had carrots, potatoes, peas and green peppers in it along with big chunks of beef. This would have been tastier if it was less oily.
The five-spices beef stew was less oily and had no vegetables in it other than onion. The beef was tender. This was my favourite of all the dishes we had.
The shredded banana blossoms with ground pork had a sour taste to it. It was unusual, not in a bad way, but not a taste I am used to. Worth trying if you are adventurous.
I did not try the squid because it did not look that appetizing. My parents liked it though. They said it was soft and not chewy at all.
The spring rolls (2 for $1) are tiny. They are called lumpia. Maybe the size of my index finger (little girl hands here, my glove size is 6.5). They were crispy and filled with ground pork.
The beef empanada ($1.50) was filled with ground beef, potatoes and raisins (!). The pastry tasted like it had a lot of lard in it. Too greasy for my liking. And the pastry to filling ratio was way too high.
They also had Dalandan (Philippine Orange) and Calamansi (Philippine Lime) Sodas ($1.50 each). I had a can of the Dalandan soda. It tasted like an orange crush, but less artificial tasting.
We also got 2 steamed buns to go (they are called siopao). We got one chicken and one pork ($1.50 each). The meat inside is shredded and too salty for my taste. Shredded meat is the only filling, no vegetables or anything else. The steamed bun itself was good, soft and fresh.
We also got a leche cassava cake ($2.50) to go. The leche part on top was similar to flan and the cassava cake on the bottom was nice and chewy. I really liked this. I would buy it again.
The food was good, albeit oily. The staff were nice. The place was cleaner than most Filipino grocery stores I've been to in the GTA.
They have free parking in their lot, but the parking lot is not that big and with all the snow it was not that easy to get in and out of.
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