"There’s no better to celebrate a water-main break underneath your office building than spending the day roaming around the well-manicured streets of Pasadena. And while you’re there, head to Chaaste Family Market. This colorful Filipino spot is one of our favorite restaurants in Pasadena—and it’s not even entirely a restaurant. You enter through a convenience store and head to a back counter where you order cafeteria-style, pointing out whatever looks good. Our order is usually the pork lumpia, eggplant with shrimp paste, and the vinegary chicken adobo, but whatever you do, don’t leave without some turon (banana-filled fried spring rolls). There’s a reason they sell them in boxes of five." - Brant Cox, Nikko Duren
Krystal Thompson