Kamayan Style at "House of Sisig"!

Hello Everyone! This is writer Jasmine♥
        Have you even experienced different eating culture before? Today I am going to introduce you the Kamayan Style in “House of Sisig”. “House of Sisig” is a Filipino restaurant and it is famous on its kamayan style. What is the kamayan style? Kamayan style is basically a Filipino style of eating food with your hands on banana leaves!

        We ordered a dinner set last time and it was my first time of using kamayan style. It was a really special experience of mixing food together by hands. However, it is 100% okay if you don’t want to use kamayan style. You can still ask for plates or like what I did, I asked for fork and spoon. Are you excited?! Let’s see dishes in “House of Sisig”.

        Appetizers—Pulutan

       

        Starting with a Filipino appetizer! This dish is called Pulutan and contains eggplants, tomatoes, mangos, onions, and salted duck egg. The sauces are soy fish sauce, lechon sauce, shrimp sauce, sweet sour sauce, and vinegar sauce. The way of eating this dish is to mix all the food together and then also with any kind of sauce you want to add. It is such a special taste of combination of all these food and sauce mixing together!

        Seafood—Tahong (Mussels sauteed in butter garlic sauce)

        After we finished the appetizer, we had Tahong which is the mussel sautéed with butter garlic. The mussels are cooked very well and each one of them all has the sauce on it. I still remembered that we finished the dish like in five minutes. But watch your mouth, the shells are hot.

       

        We ordered a dinner set and they were all mixed together in a dish. I list them as following.

        Pork—Inihaw Or Pritong Pork Chop (Grilled or fried pork chops)

        Chicken—Barbecue (Grilled chicken on skewers)

        Seafood—Daing Na Bangus (Fried, marinated boneless milkfish)

        Seafood—Hipon Al Ajillo (Shrimp and assorted vegetables sautéed with garlic, salt and pepper)

        Seafood—Calamares (Crispy fried squid)

        Appetizers—Lumpiang Shanghai (Crispy deep-fried pork spring rolls)

       

        Wow! This dinner set is a lot! The fried pork chops are very delicious, tender, and juicy. I couldn’t stop myself of keep eating it. However, it became a little bit too greasy so I put some sauce (as I mention before) on it and it became a complete new taste. You can put some vinegar on the pork chop to make it less greasy and oily.

        Barbeque chicken is cooked with the special barbeque sauce of “House of Sisig”. It definitely tastes really good and the chicken is very soft and tender.

        As you can see on the picture, there is a huge fried fish lying in the middle. The fish is extremely hot when you peel off its skin. The taste of fish meat is very light but it is one of my favorites from the all. I like to put the sweet and sour sauce on fish meat because they match perfectly together.

The shrimps are delicious too, but they are a little bit too salty. However, you can always put some vinegar sauce to fit into your own taste!

The spring rolls are good but don’t really have big difference compared to spring rolls at other restaurants. The squid is a little bit too difficult to eat, because it is overly cooked and too old. However, others are all very delicious and I started planning on next visit to “House of Sisig” once I finished the dinner that day!

Are you ready for the kamayan style at “House of Sisig”? Are you still thinking about what to eat today?! Just come to “House of Sisig” to try out these yummy Filipino foods!

PS: The restaurant is really small so make a call before you go to save your waiting time.

“House of Sisig”

        Address: 2408 Junipero Serra Blvd Daly City, CA 94015
        Phone Number: 650) 755-0288