There is a huge Filipino population in Dubai and Filipino food is something I always crave. So went on a Filipino street food tour and found some AMAZING cheap and delicious eats.
Restaurants I went to:
Juicy Pot Address: 5206 W Colonial Dr Suite 120, Orlando, FL 32808
Kusina Natin To Address: 9 Al Hudaiba Rd - Al Bada'a - Dubai - United Arab Emirates
Dampa Seafood Grill Address: Baniyas Rd - Port Saeed - Dubai - United Arab Emirates
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They're conveyor belts. Whoa, that's an extensive sauce bar. Ooh
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Hey guys, mike chen here in dubai been exploring different neighborhoods walking around trying different types of foods
One thing I noticed a lot of filipino restaurants around here. Oh, he's in the mood for some filipino food
So first restaurant i'm at is called kusina
Natin, this place looks good. Everything on the menu looks good. There's breakfast soup and noodles
lulalo, kare kare
Sizzling sisig, of course here is uh, either chicken or beef sisig. Ooh
Sizzling bone marrow
That is
Thick with chunks of fatty beef
Star anise some garlic. Oh my goodness. This smells
Incredible couple of eggs in here as well scallions. Wow beef looks
Incredibly tender good amount of fat and put this over garlic rice drizzle some of this amazing gravy onto it
I'll know what smells better the garlic rice with a beef pate
Oh wow when this thing is done, right it's just so amazingly flavorful big chunks of beef
Again, a lot of fat so amazingly tender you taste the spices
Right away. You taste the aroma from the star anise. It's just so inviting and the sauce is so rich
Add a little bit of vinegar and some hot oil
I'll happily eat this dish all day long, especially with some vinegar savory and vinegary. That's my favorite flavor profile
for filipino dishes
Excellent also this iced tea
That is so good. It's some kind of peach iced tea
Really delicious next up beef kare kare a little veg eggplant in here
Yep, I smell the peanutty aroma as soon as I open this pot
Oxtail inside and of course some shrimp paste to mix in here. This is the dish
I've been waiting for
Sizzling bone marrow giant pieces of bone marrow sizzling on a hot plate
It's just pure buttery gold put some of this on my rice
Add a chunk of meat
With that your garlic rice will turn into garlic butter rice
Oh, that's so delicious. They season that as well 100%
Recommend getting that when you're here. It's just such a great add-on for anything you order
Also, I haven't had kare kare in such a long time some shrimp paste
And just look at the oxtail fall off the bone. These are all such great dishes to eat with rice
Oh, that's tender personally, I love the shrimp paste
It goes perfect with that thick creamy peanutty broth. This thing is earthy
It's a little sweet. The flavor is very mild nothing aggressive, but so incredibly rich
And I love the little snap
From the tripe put that on your plate again chase it with a little shrimp paste
The ultimate comfort dish
This restaurant is freaking amazing. By the way. Also what you can do take some garlic rice put it inside
The ball a little bit of sauce
There you go. Kare kare
bone marrow garlic rice
Not gonna find much better bite than that. Like I said, this restaurant is really good
Wish I could stay here. Just try more stuff on the menu
There's a couple more places I gotta get you. I forgot one thing
I haven't had a hala hala in a long long time
Ice cream sticky rice. I can't even get to the bottom. It's melting already
This is a really really authentic place feels like i'm back in the philippines eating this food
Just around the corner wanted to grab some filipino street food top silag with garlic rice and a runny egg
270
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I can't believe this costs as much as a mcdonald's burger
And trust me it tastes so so much better. The garlic rice is phenomenal little crispy pieces of garlic
The egg is perfect the beef just has the most amazing chew
And just so much umami also got a bowl of chicken skin dollar sixty for a bowl of chicken skin
Not as crispy as I thought
Still delicious though. This is so good though for such an amazing price
All these ingredients together creaminess from the runny egg the delicious deep rich flavor of the beef
This whole area just has a ton of filipino restaurants really picking any one of them
I feel like i'm not gonna go wrong
Also got a couple street food items deep fried peppers with a little thin wrapper around it for under a dollar
This is so freaking delicious the wrapper is so incredibly thin fresh chilies you bite through the wrapper
You taste the heat a little bit of sweetness a little juice from the peppers
This is one of the best versions of this dish I had outside the philippines
I forgot cheese inside the peppers too. Just give me some sauce for the dynamite
I wish I got a whole plate of this
Sauce a little sweet a little spicy
I'm here
We need to get some of this. Oh, yeah dynamite is right like a little flavor explosion. We can bite down on this
So good
Food is on the table
Thank you
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you
Bib is around my neck. So today is a couple things street food
We're gonna have some of their specialty spicy seafood with rice. This is quite a feast. First of all street food
We got some you saw chicken and tested
Wow, this is something you see a lot when walking around the night markets, uh in the philippines, right?
giant fried squid
This is everywhere
When you're walking around the night markets and it's such an amazing street food item. You saw is something I haven't had
It's such a long time when you think filipino street food, this is the first thing that comes to mind
Oh, yeah
Chicken intestines grilled perfectly. I love that char on the outside brings a little bit of bitterness
Ah, this thing is chewy to me. I love organic flavor. I love intestines
This is one of my favorite things especially right off the grill
It's still got that nice char on the outside when the sauce they put on this a little sweet little spicy
It's kind of like eating chewy chicken and some chicken liver at the same time
I love how the dipping sauce got tons of vinegar
You can't balance out the nice flavor of the intestines I gotta dig into this
Holy moly
You don't see these often in restaurants like this is like something you would expect in a food stall somewhere, but look at this fried
Absolutely so perfect. You see all the spices on the outside of the crispy outer shell
This thing is gonna have a nice crunch. I guarantee you fresh squid is used for this
There's a flavor so nicely it's like eating the kfc of fried squid
Creamy crunchy on the outside inside the squid is tender. This thing's got good flavor on the outer shell
Delicious that's really fun to eat they give you gloves because this the food is gonna be saucy
Lemon juice shrimp paste goes on the grilled eggplant. This thing's got some scallions tomatoes as well
Mix it all together get all the eggplant out
Mix it with all the veg
And the paste
Get a big spoonful
That's amazing first of all you taste the fire you taste the smoke from the eggplant
That's cooked so nicely a little sweet burst of juice from the tomatoes or crunch from the onions the shrimp paste
I love some people might find it a little too much. I love it brings in that great seafood briny umami flavor
This is milkfish this is the national fish of the philippines squeeze of lemon and you can just
take a
chunk out beautiful white
flaky meat
Juicy glistening and take this
Dip a little bit in the sauce
and eat
wow
That's freaking outstanding again. Just like the eggplant
You taste the smokiness from the fire watch out for the little um little bones in here
These tend to have little bones in here. Just be careful of that dip it in the sauce
Combine it with a little veg
Get a little bit of rice
And then down the hatch also to eat this fish because they split this in half move the vegetables
Look at that glistening fat. That's just melting your mouth fish belly right there
See all that dig this up
Oh, wow, this
Is the best part of the fish?
A little more meat on there for me
Put in some vegetables squeeze of lemon juice
Just to counteract that nice belly fat little tiny bit of soy sauce. There we go
That was exquisite
The fat in that belly just completely
Evacuates as soon as it touches your tongue the nice squeeze of lemon juice again balances out the fat making it taste so
amazingly tender and a little crunch the vegetables kind of offset how soft and tender the flesh of the fish is giving it that
Nice little bit of crunch and juice and little sweetness from the tomatoes as well
That is the part of the fish you give
To those you hold dear the most I mean say something for yourself
But only share that with someone you truly care about because there's not a lot of it, you know, 100 blow your mind squid
grilled perfect char on the outside
Look at that
So perfectly beautiful. I love dipping everything in chili vinegar
That's about as tender as you can get nice slight bitterness from the char the sauce has a bit of sweetness a bit of smokiness
And the vinegar in the sauce highlights the natural sweetness of the squid so well
Oh, it's so tender
I'm trying to try everything quickly because I got this just turning cold and I really don't want that. This is the cajun
Shrimp, so a lot of people come to dimpa for their cajun spicy different flavored seafood
And what you can do is take that nice sauce here all that great butter and spices and just drizzle that all over
The rice make that rice all buttery and spicy
Oh my gosh starts cracking open the seafood
Shrimp head
Take a piece of the shrimp out
Dip it back into the sauce
And down the hatch
Whoa sweet buttery smoky spicy and the rice is exponentially better
Because that's soaked in all that great butter and spices and seafood juice as well
Everybody does you get that great natural sweet flavor from the shrimp
They kept their head on which is great because you suck on that and suck out
That amazing natural umami. This is how I would imagine a great filipino food day
Here in dubai. Actually, I didn't imagine it. I
I didn't know all these great places existed if you find all these places
Like everything it just tastes so amazingly authentic and we're not done a couple of things left. I'm really thursday
So they brought me all over a little drink
Um, well, maybe it's not so little this is called
the justin bieber
Passion fruit pineapple soda, so if you ever want to put your mouth on justin bieber
You can do it here and then I got an iced tea inside grenadine. I think peach
Hmm
This tastes like the peach tea I had this morning. This is delicious. I got my drinks. I got my table full of food
This day started out great
It's indiana high note as well, and we're not done one more dessert. Here it is
This is the popular ice crumble. This is something you can get anywhere in the philippines
People usually push around a cart. They grind up some ice some milk powder. Uh, in this case, there's marshmallow. There's chocolate syrup on here
This is pretty much what they call native ice cream in the philippines it is right
This is something that's super authentic I would say vintage you gotta mix it pretty well because otherwise you're gonna get a mouthful of uh
milk powder
So mix that
Really really really well. It's milky. It's chocolatey extremely refreshing and with the marshmallows floating here
Pretty fun as well
I was eating the squid and drinking the justin bieber at the same time accidentally got some chilies in my justin bieber. So
I pretty much made justin bieber hotter as always all the places. I went to listed down below for you guys
Thank you all so much for watching till we eat again
See you later