Filipinas Oriental Food
Filipino restaurant · Warren ·
Filipino restaurant/grocery with homestyle classics, ube halaya
Filipino restaurant/grocery with homestyle classics, ube halaya
"It’s best to come in the morning to eat before the food runs out at this turo turo or “point-point” spot in Warren. Owned by Sonia Sutter, the hybrid restaurant/grocery store offers Filipino classics cafeteria-style, such as longanisa, laing, fried pompano fish, paksiw na bangus (stewed milkfish), upo (sauteed bottle gourd), and adobo. Filipinas also carries specialty items like banana sauce and ready-made desserts like ube halaya. You’ll also find colorful sweet treats like hopia in a display cooler. The interior of the spot is embellished with visual reminders of the islands, like a painting of the Taal Volcano or trinkets decorated with the country’s flag. Filipinas also serves as a shipping point for balikbayan boxes, or packages of gifts and essentials people send to their loved ones back home in the Philippines." - Eleanore Catolico
"A family-run hybrid grocery and turo-turo eatery in Warren that has served a local Filipino community since 2010, operated by an immigrant owner who cooks alongside her parents and brother. The compact dining room and market are decorated with tropical touches that evoke the Philippines, and customers—many traveling from other Michigan cities—point to cafeteria-style chafing dishes to order homestyle classics such as pork and chicken adobo (a soy-vinegar-brown sugar stew), creamy taro-leaf laing, longganisa sausages, crunchy sisig, and fried pompano. Word-of-mouth and a Facebook presence sustain steady, nostalgic business, and the room hums with Tagalog conversation as diners pile rice onto plates and feast at plastic-covered tables." - Eleanore Catolico
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