Originally Posted by
missydarlin
I can't say I've ever eaten in a filipino restaurant.
But when I lived in Hawaii, I worked for the Navy Exchange, which like the health care field in S. Nevada, is chock full of filipinos. That was where I came to the realization that white people just don't know how to potluck.
I like adobo, but pork guisantes............mmmmmmmm!!
Back when I worked in health care, we had regular potlucks. Two things guaranteed to be there were pansit and flan prepared in a ham tin. Why the flan absolutely had to be made in the ham tin (the big oval shaped kind) I never found out, but between the odd residual "hammy" taste and the sickeningly sweet syrup on it, that was the worst excuse for flan I ever tasted.
Two things I remember from Manila are the boiled peanut vendors and ordering milk and getting goat's milk, which is an acquired taste.