'Filipino soul food' finds a home at this casual Long Beach restaurant

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'The casual, comforting pulse of the menu — tied together by vivid ingredients and a rich sense of culinary imagination — is bound up in personal history, heritage and identity,' writes piescarcega on Bebot Filipino Soul Food in Long Beach

At Bebot Filipino Soul Food in Long Beach, chef AC Boral’s brunch menu includes Scotch eggs swaddled in longanisa sausage; bright purple ube-mochi waffles brushed with butter and coconut jam; and a halo-halo-inspired breakfast parfait made from Greek yogurt layered with gemstones of varicolored jellies, jams and fruit-flavored flan.

A member of Boral’s family recently described these dishes as “millennial Filipino food,” a catchy label that he says captures the spirit and youthfulness of his first-generation, Filipino American cooking.But he prefers to call it “Filipino soul food” — cooking grounded in the foods he grew up eating around the family table, channeled through the sensibilities of a self-taught chef with a predilection for big, bombastic flavors.

Pancit, the classic Filipino stir-fried noodle dish, is re-created as a creamy, carbonara-like wheat noodle dish spiked with shrimp, salty nubs of Spam and chile flakes sprinkled on top like glitter. A vegan version boosted with citrus, soy and mushrooms achieves deep, concentrated umami flavor.One of the cleverest and most delicious dishes is on the ever-changing dessert menu: a nutty, rich and elegant bibingka brûlée.

Pork is celebrated in dish after dish, particularly on the “old school” side of the menu. Twice-cooked pork belly adobo is a triumph of voluptuousness; the meat is roasted, then braised in a coconutty broth full of creaminess and depth. Lechon kawali — salty, ultra-fatty morsels of pork belly — have thin, crackly edges, primed to shatter.

 

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