We parked at an overpriced lot with a mafia looking dude collecting money...
so we could eat here, at this new'ish Filipino comfort food eatery called Big Boi. It's an offshoot of B Sweet Dessert Shop down the street. We were curious to try this place out. Their take on Filipino cuisine is healthier (not as oily) and focuses on better cuts of meat. It's cool to see Filipino places like this. San Diego needs one of these!
Their menu. Nice and simple. OMG, ube butter. Calamansi Juice. BBQ beef skewers. I loved that "canned meat" is a header too. Some of my white friends would be grossed out but fuck their narrow minded ways. Canned meat is the shit. They had full on Filipino condiments at each table and framed words in Tagalog on the walls.
"Kain Na" is a phrase you'll hear if you're at a Tagalog speaking Filipino household (it means, "let's eat"/seen here in glorious neon at Filipino eatery, Papa Urb's Grill in Stockton during our summer road trip last year)
This was dinner part one - something small to share here and then another place we had our eye on a few doors away. Our meal came in a nice container with a side of pan de sal.
Garlic fried rice and sisig combo with pickled vegetables.
The meat chunks were great...they had the right amount of fat and were juicy and tender.
The pickled vegetable also cut through the richness of the pork. The rice was also pretty damn good. You could really tast that garlic too.
I snapped this shot because I liked that wooden perpetual wooden calendar from the Philippines. I've never seen one with light colored wood. The set we have does not have drawings on them; ours has a dark brown finish. The date on ours also hasn't been changed since last year, ha ha. In looking at this photo again months later...I noticed their offering of Ginisang Upo (a sauteed dish using opo, aka bottle gourd squash), it's not often that I see one of my favorite Filipino vegetables on a menu.
This meal was just the teaser.
Loved it here. Clientele was diverse. The gals behind the counter were so nice and sweet. It's good to see Filipino food done up right and not "too upscale" that it loses its character.
Earlier, posters and Japanese vegetable plants at Nijiya, where we bought a few snacks to prove that we frequented a business at that mini strip mall and garage.
Articles:
Big Boi brings modern Filipino food to Sawtelle Japantown this weekend", LA Eater, Jan 8, 2018
"B Sweet Dessert Bar brings comfort Filipino cuisine to Sawtelle next" LA Eater, Oct 24, 2017
Big Boi Filipino Comfort Food
2027 Sawtelle Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90025
www.gobigoi.com/ fb page + reviews from you know where
The one place we were curious about had a long ass line out the door and we definitely did not want to wait more than ten minutes (yes, we or I, have NO patience whatsoever), so we utilized Plan B...
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