The 16 Best Restaurants In Pasadena - Los Angeles - The Infatuation

"At this family-run Filipino spot right off the 210, you enter through a convenience store to get to the adjacent dining room and order cafeteria-style at the counter, pointing out whatever looks good (or you can just have the person serving you recommend what’s good). The hand-rolled pork lumpia are excellent, and our favorites from the entrees are the jiggly braised eggplant with shrimp paste, and the juicy, vinegary adobo chicken. And at the end of your meal, nothing is going to prepare you for how fantastic the homemade turon is—they’re like sticky, crunchy, banana-stuffed lumpia. There’s a reason they sell them in boxes of five." - brant cox, sylvio martins, andrew ryce