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"Operating from Elmwood Park for over 13 years, the original Mama Fina’s was opened by husband-and-wife team Samuel and Carmen Sta Maria and specializes in sisig, the traditional Filipino chopped fried pork dish. The original offers pork sisig as well as chicken, tofu, tuna, milkfish, and squid variations to appeal to people who don’t eat pork, and Carmen (who also goes by Aming) told a local New Jersey outlet in 2017 that her sisig recipe is secret." - Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya