Cerritos goldilocks11/16/2023 ![]() On the pinakbet, there were the usual assortment of pork, shrimp, bittermelon, pumpkin, green beans, eggplant, all shellacked in a funky gravy laced with the stinky-salty fermented shrimp paste called bagoong. It was also the first time I saw taro in a restaurant sinigang, which is what I usually like to add in mine when I make it. There were more vegetable matter in this sinigang than there are in Magic Wok's. We ladled the soup and its boiled vegetable contents into our own bowls, spooned some of that broth to moisten our rice, dribbled patis (fish sauce) onto the pork after we scraped them off the bone, and then we ate and ate, and slurped and slurped that tamarind-flavored pork elixir like it was the first hot soup we had in years. We ordered the sinigang, some pinakbet and a big pot of rice. We stopped in to get a meal simply because we were in the area, and it turned out to be exactly the thing we needed-comfort food to sustain us and get our insides warm and cozy. For a long time, if there's a birthday, it's usually a Goldilocks Black Forest beneath the candles.īut this visit was different. My family and I had been going there since they were in a tiny location on Pioneer Street. Just at Denny's, they're here for sustenance. When you look around you get the sense the people who eat here aren't doing so because they're celebrating any sort of special occasion. But it is quite like America's chain diner in many ways-it's lit brightly and has a similar corporate polish behind it. Please don't take that last part as a knock against Goldilocks. I need you to be aware of Magic Wok-which is, in my opinion, the best Filipino restaurant outside of the Philippines-because I'm now about to write about Goldilocks, which is like the Denny's. ![]() So you've been to Magic Wok right? If you haven't yet, go! If you have no idea what I'm babbling about, look to the right and read up on the multiple posts I've written on the place.
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