Thu T.
Yelp
Be aware that the food is really salty! We had always been wanting to try Little Mama for a few times, but couldn't make it due to their early closing hours. We were so excited to try Little Mama today, but left super disappointed. All the dishes sounded delicious on paper, but we decided to try their classic ones - lumpia, chicken adobo, and pancit bihon.
Lumpia: Regular egg rolls with ground pork and carrots inside, nothing is different than a Chinese or Vietnamese egg rolls. Vietnamese egg rolls are more flavorful. These lumpia's are much bigger than the ones our Filipino friend made. It was served with sweet chili sauce. Lumpia was decent, nothing was special about it.
Pancit bihon: SUPER SALTY. It was wayyy too salty that we couldn't eat after the first bite. It was stir-fried clear noodles with a few small pieces of cabbage and carrots. There was only a handful of chicken pieces buried on the bottom of the box. This dish was so salty that it was mind blowing. We had to tell the staff and asked if they could remake it. She happily took it back and remade for us, but the second round was not too much less. It was still salty. We felt bad throwing it, so we packed it home hoping we could fix it (not sure how), so we'll see what we can do with it.
Chicken adobo: Braised chicken with onion and a piece of pickled pepper. This dish was also salty! However, it was more tolerable compared to the pancit because we ate it with rice. The pickled pepper added more salt and tanginess to the dish. However, rice or no rice, it shouldn't be that salty to start with.
Tap water: Tasted a bit funny. There was no ice.
There were many colorful desserts made with ube that we were curious to try. However, after the bad experience about the salty pancit and adobo, I didn't want to try anything else. The 3 dishes that we ordered were their classic ones. If they couldn't make their classic ones right, what about others?
There was no signage in the front except the small sticker on the door, so it was very easy to miss. It was a very small restaurant with 2 tables - 4 chairs at each table. They could pull out more tables if we need to, but we would take up all the space. This place is not really designed for dine-in, but for takeout. Even though we dined in, food was served in plastic containers. We set up our own table with paper plates, plastic silverware, and plastic cups.