Try 33 Filipino Food Week Specials at These O‘ahu Restaurants
Roy’s, Obake Honolulu, Stage Restaurant and others join Filipino eateries offering pulutan bar snacks from June 20 to 26.
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April 2023: Our Top 3 Most Viewed Posts About the Local Food Scene
New and coming eateries took over in a complete sweep of Frolic’s top posts.
Peso, a Modern Filipino Restaurant, Is Coming to the Piggy Smalls Space
Helmed by L.A. chef Ria Dolly Barbosa, it’s opening as early as this month.
Roll With It: SW8 Dada’s Sizzling Sisig Truck in Waipahu
In the old Arakawa’s parking lot, crispy pork sisig and other irresistible Filipino specialties.
4 Favorite Halo Halo on O‘ahu, One You Need to Get Now
When it's hot, holo holo for halo halo at Via Gelato, Shimazu Store, Magnolia Ice Cream & Treats and Max’s of Manila.
Filipino Food Week Brings Calamansi-Themed Dishes to 4 Islands
18 restaurants from Pai, Stage and Tiki’s Grill to Elena’s, Tiano’s and Macadangdang are featuring Filipino specials June 20 to 26.
This Potluck Plate Celebrates AAPI Month, Local Style
Hawai‘i potlucks are already AAPI mashups on a plate. Frolic’s smorgasbord goes a step beyond with palusami, lomi ‘ō‘io, polvoron and more.
Roll With It: Merienda Serves Up Refined Roadside Filipino Fare on Maui
Find lumpia shanghai, Filipino style breakfast, sisig tacos and more on a stretch of HI-30 in Lahaina.
April 2022: Our Top 3 Most Viewed Posts
A roundup of the stories you deemed most drool-worthy and shareable.
My 8 Favorite Filipino Foods on O‘ahu Right Now
From lumpia to sisig and halo halo to kare kare, here’s where to find my beloved Filipino cravings.
Ube Churros, Lumpia, Sisig Tacos: Pusong Filipinx Market Is This Sunday
The showcase of more than two dozen vendors selling food, clothes, jewelry and more is free and open to the public.
Adobo Burnt Ends, Kare Kare Surf and Turf and Filipino-Tiki Cocktails: Filipino Food Week Is Now
More than 20 restaurants across the state are participating in Filipino Food Week from June 6 to 12.
Not your nana’s cooking: Ube churros and lechon fries
Growing up, I never saw Filipino food as special. Granted, my family is Filipino and we always ate pancit, pinakbet, adobo and other standard dishes. But the only thing that wowed me was the roasted lechon pig at parties, sprawled…
Finally! Hawaii's getting a Filipino Food Week
After moving to Hawaii during my freshman year of high school, I learned that Filipinos were viewed in different ways. Some saw us as unfashionable FOBs that dressed in loud colors. Others saw us as potential troublemakers with an affinity…
This is kamayan: Filipino-style benefit feast coming 4/27
When I first came to Hawaii, it was a reverse culture shock. I grew up on the mainland, so moving to a place where I was no longer a minority took a bit of getting used to. A part of…
Haute Filipino menu at Chef Mavro’s
San Francisco food blogger @TheDapperDiner proclaimed that this is the year Filipino food gets recognized as the most hip and trendy cuisine, and he’s probably right. You’ve seen it featured in mainstream media, from street food to fusion to elevated plates.…
Props to the pop up, Province SF
Since our flight to Dubai originated in San Francisco, we had time before and after that adventure to have another mini-adventure in the City by the Bay. One of my favorite people there to eat with is my Twitter friend…
This Saturday: Tasting the Philippines of 1898
I know almost nothing about Filipino food. Nothing beyond adobo, sari sari and a thrillingly sour deconstructed sinigang that Sheldon Simeon made at Vintage Cave, where a tamarind broth poured tableside dissolved the bed of chicken fat powder under a…
Did this: Eat the Street Philippines
The year’s first Eat the Street paid tribute to the Philippines, Kakaako’s monthly street food fest both a fund-raiser for Typhoon Haiyan rebuilding as well as a celebration of all foods Filipino. Vendors cooked up versions of lechon, pancit, sari…
Hello, Sheldon!
It’s official: Sheldon Simeon, Top Chef season 10 finalist, is unleashing his bold, contemporary Filipino flavors in Honolulu for the first time at a four-night collaboration at Vintage Cave.If you watched Top Chef, you know Simeon (and why I couldn’t…
Thanks, Sheldon
Dear Sheldon, I wish you’d won. I know many Top Chef fans in Hawaii who feel the same way, and more beyond these shores. From the beginning of season 10 you brought the show home, flashing the shaka with a…
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