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| - I had the ginataang bilo bilo, I think, in a small size, for $2.99. It's a dessert made of coconut milk, glutinous rice balls, sago, and some kind of starchy fruit or veggie. It was also purple colored (ube/purple yam?) Whatever it was, it was delightful, when mixed with a bit of milk. Undiluted, it was super thick and fairly sweet. The chewier glutinous rice balls provided a nice contrast to the slippery sago, and the coconut milk and ube mix was lovely in a sweet and savory sort of way. The small size, mixed with some milk, is enough for four decent sized servings, so price-wise, it's not bad.
Why the three star review? For those like myself who are unaccustomed to Filipino food, one has to ask what everything is, because while they have an ordering menu above their hot table, none of those items has descriptions, and none of the hot table foods has a name plate. I wouldn't gripe so much about this if my server would have cheerfully let me know what everything was, but she didn't seem to keen on doing that. I have come at times where the server is cheerful, so I have only deducted one star for that.
The other star's deduction is because some of their menu items are really not cheap. Chicharrons were $7.99/half lb. That's almost $16/lb. For that price, I could get some really nice steaks. Is pork skin really that expensive? I think not.
I will be back for more desserts though. They have some very interestingly colored, and flavored, cakes in the display window.
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