Tom L.
Yelp
I'm from California, had jollibee in the past, it's a great taste but it's soo rich in flavor and salt, I wish they have some type of pickled items like peppers or red onions to help cut the saltiness of all the food. I miss the halo halo too but I guess I'll go somewhere else for ice cream. The shining star is really the gravy, it's the best fast food gravy on the market, full of beef flavor, and thick.
Great tasting dishes, as advertised, but it's your typical food. Adobo rice is good and earthy, the chicken is amazing and moist. The spicy chicken is surprising pretty spicy, it hits you with a slight slap of heat and spicy on the tongue so it comes on quick. The batter is great but just too thick for my liking, a thinner fried batter would of been what I would of preferred.
The spaghetti was ok, just sweet ketchup sauce with the taste of weird sorta fake cheese looking. Plus the chopped hotdog gets sorta lost in the sweet ketchup sauce so all I get is carbs of noodles.
The burger plate, ugh tasted like overcooked dry beef patty smothered and covering up dry beef with sauce. The sauce did not add any internal moister but once you eat the dry dry dry dry dry beef, with the adobo rice and sauce it's not bad.
The palabok is good, the best dish of the day. Thin glass noodles with a semi bland orange sauce with chopped chicharrons but it gets soggy quick so it's like bites and pieces of pork. The ground meat on the orange sauce is good, needs more egg if I'm paying $7 for less than .10c noodles, rehydrated in water. Sauce that seems ok and toppings. Shrimp was ok but they are sooo small they deserve to be on a kid menu. Again for $7 I rather go to Chipotle and get a bowl and get 3x more meat, more flavors, more value. Plus, where is the lumpia? I mean Panda Express has fake Chinese food with an egg roll so why can't Jollibee with its semi not authentic Filipino food not offer lumpia?
The main point for me is all that $70, that's a lot. I rather go to a more authentic real Filipino restaurant and probably spend less with a to go meal with a tip and I'm sure it still would be more value than $70. To compare the value of the food vs the price, it's not worth the money. I do feel a bit mislead and ripped off.