I Tried 3 of Melbourne’s Best Filipino Food Restaurants

Melbourne has incredible Filipino food but I've realised I've barely scratched the surface. Today I'm visiting three Filipino restaurants trying everything from sisig and crispy fried chicken to charcoaled pork. And finally one last stop before we wrap this one up, Boracay waffle. Let's give it a try. I'm at NLC Cafe in Burnside and I've ordered myself a pork sisig and I've ordered some fried chicken. I've also ordered a platter which is on its way and whilst we're waiting for the platter I might as well dig into this. Now here's the egg of the pork sisig. This one seems to have a sauce on it and some lemon so the idea is to kind of mix this egg up. Now pork sisig is meant to be made of pork pieces that aren't necessarily the best like the ears and bits and pieces but I reckon that they're usually better pieces here by the looks of it Just for the Australian market I would say. And pour a bit of that in my plate with some of that sauce. A bit of lemon on there as well. Squeeze it a bit on here and a bit in my plate. Get some from this side as well. Look at the steam on that. It's one of my favourite things to eat when I eat Filipino food and I have done a Filipino episode with sisig before and I'll drop that in the comments for you. Alright this is hot so I've got to be careful. Yeah clean pieces of pork. I think the last one I had was actual proper pork cutlets that were maybe from the year because they were a lot more crunchier. These ones aren't as crunchy. You can taste the egg and the vegetable. Lots of fat pieces in there. You can taste the onion and that sauce. That sauce is quite nice. It does it gives it a nice flavour which is just mayonnaise. Here we go. Some proper chewy bits which is what it's meant to have. Delicious, delicious, delicious meal. Always order the sisig if you get a chance. I also got this fried chicken just to give it a go. This looks nice. It's a tomato sauce so I don't know if I would have tomato sauce with it but that's the chicken there. Nice crispy fatty bit. Smells good. Feels like it's got some nice coating to it. Nice and crunchy. Oh here's the platter. Beautiful. Thank you very much. Beautiful. Thank you. Alright the chicken. I'm getting distracted by the platter. Soft, fatty, juicy. The the skin is very nice. It's not overwhelming with too many flavours but it's just got enough. This is really good. I don't think I've ever had fried chicken that is supposed to be crunchy but it's so nice and soft and tender and flavourful. Like it's got a lot of juice in it. A lot of flavour. They're obviously using like a Thai fillet there which is probably the best cut of chicken to get that juice and it's not dry. Sometimes when you get the breast or the wing there's not enough meat. That's delicious. Alright now let's get into this pork platter. Now this is a crispy pork and grilled pork. It's pork belly fat basically and it's around $40 worth around $40. So we've got two types of pork. We've got pork belly with fat in it. One's crispy and one's grilled. Two types of sauce which we'll get to the bottom of when we get to taste it. I'll try with this nice fatty piece there. Look at the colour on that. Oh smells delicious. I probably should have ordered some rice with this but that's okay and just cutting that up there you can see the bit of fat. So I'm going to just try it without the sauce because it's got some nice coating on it by the looks of it. Careful because you've got some bone. That coating is nice and sweet and delicious. So this is pork off the bone there so it just comes off nicely and it's got a nice amount of fat and meat on there. That is tasty. That is very tasty and this little bit off the bone is the juiciest part. I'm going to try this sauce with it. See what it is. Feels like a vinaigrette sauce from what I can smell and just mix that up. That sauce is definitely vinaigrette sauce. I'm going to try this more of a drier piece of meat again. See the crackle there. The meat and the fat and obviously that's the fatty bit with the meat. Now my assumption would be that this sauce is to go more with this than this because this has already got some coating on it but you know what eat it how you like. Again careful there's some bone there. Nice and crunchy but it needs some sauce. I'll put a bit of this thicker layered sauce on it because I think this is like a sweeter type of sauce compared to that. That was vinaigrette which went well with this. Oh yeah that's like a homemade barbecue sauce but it's just got enough sweetness to give this meat a taste. So I'm going to get back into this and enjoy this and before we go to the next place. All right I'm in Sunshine at Cebu Charcoal and they do pork belly on the charcoal on the actual spit all day long. Now this place isn't very fancy as you can see the cutlery and the paper plates is what it's all about and the place in general is not a fancy place but this is the hero. Now I've ordered the spicy pork belly with the rice and a bit of the sauce. So let's look at that chunk there you can hear that that is delicious and the meat you can see nice juicy fatty bits from the pork belly with lots of dressing on the skin there and obviously I've got my rice there. We'll dip it into this sauce see what this sauce is all about. That's like a vinegar style sauce that gives it a nice kick to the meat but the meat is tasty and a little bit spicy. It's not overly spicy you can order the non-spicy but it's quite juicy and you can see I'm cooking it fresh there like non-stop and people coming in and out. Here's a fattier piece I'm gonna go for a perfect bite oh that is crispy hopefully you can hear that over the microphone but that is some delicious charcoal pork that pork was delicious. The spicy pork meal deal with the rice and the can of coke is $23.50. Now that's not enough for me I wanted to try something else and I got the crispy crunchy chicken same deal with the rice and the coke which was I think $18.50 so a little bit cheaper you get a couple of pieces with the rice and the sweet chili sauce so crunchy. So they don't only do pork here they do chicken and I think they do skewers oh the heat on that it came straight from the fryer the crunchiness of the skin is delicious it's coated with a little bit of salt and a little bit of onion I can taste like an onion flavor maybe and maybe garlic I'm gonna try it with a bit of the sweet chili sauce just got to be careful not to burn my fingers because it is very hot but it's delicious the two work together really well and the skin doesn't feel too oily it feels nice crunchy tasty and very hot so check out Cebu charcoal in sunshine. Okay to finish off I'm in Caroline Springs shopping center and I saw this little pop-up place there called Boracay waffle which does obviously waffles with flavors it does both savory and sweet and I've got myself a savory one in a cheesy hot dog because I asked the lady what's the best seller having said that after I ordered it I was looking at the menu there three out of the five savory ones were all had a best seller on it and then I ordered the ube one for dessert which also four out of the five sweet ones were best sellers so it doesn't matter what you order just something different to try so that's how that looks all of this was $12.50 so it's not very expensive so what we're looking at here is obviously they get the waffle ingredients and they put a hot dog in it because I've got the cheese dog or they can fill it with whatever flavors they make there the ube flavor there which I'll get to that in a moment but we'll start with this which way to eat it I'd say the waffle is sweet in itself it's warm actually smells good well it's meant to be a cheesy dog I can't really taste too much of the hot dog mainly because the waffle takes over the flavor so not sure if savory is the way to go luckily I've got a sweet one ube so ube is a purple yam so think sweet potato just the purple version of it I don't know how sweet it will be but I'll try it from the side first okay I need to get into it because I can't taste much from there it doesn't work I think the ube is not sweet enough so unless they add sugar to it which I don't think they have but waffle overwhelms the flavor on second thoughts if I was to reorder this again because it is nice it is warm I think Nutella or the Biscoff or the custard I love custard that's what I would return for but I wanted to try ube because it's been everywhere and yeah I wanted to try it so it just doesn't have that sweetness for me but it's nice it's warm it's not too expensive it's a good little snack and a good way to finish this video so hopefully you've enjoyed it please like share and subscribe and we'll see you on some more videos