3650 South Jones Boulevard, 89103
I will not let a year go wasted! So here I am, updating, close to the one year hiatus mark. I guess ‘real’ life took over… so sorry to my readers. I’m going to start to pull some of the older photos I stored up and update accordingly as best I can, so here I go, go, go!
On one of my homage trips to Las Vegas, I met up a local friend to see what other stuff Vegas has to offer so I mentioned to her that I have never had Filipino food. Since she was Filipina, it was only fitting that she suggested we go.
Salo-Salo is located in a small shopping strip in the middle of nowhere. To begin the festivities, I persuaded her to order sinigang, blabbing about how I’ve heard just so much about it from my other friends, I really wanted to give it a try.
It resembles a clear soup, almost chicken-brothy. The vegetables on top are my favorite ‘chinese water spinach’ and just next to it you can see big chunks of pork ($8.99).
I wasn’t kidding on the ‘big chunks of pork’ part. The way Chinese people eat this section of pork is in a red stew, with the flavor of the stew covering up the slightly gamey taste of such a section of meat. Sinigang was nothing close to what I thought it would taste like… the soup was sour, very very sour… and I wanted to say that I was waiting for something to jump out at me, but it never did. You can compare sinigang to Thai tom yum, except that tom yum kicks you with spicey tang. I think I need to try this soup again to give it second opinion.
Next, we have chicken adobo. I think it is right to say that every one makes adobo slightly different and that their mother’s adobo is always the best. Adobo is a concoction of soy sauce and vinegar (you see a theme here?). This was one of the more soupy adobos I’ve had… I’ve had adobo that was so thick and oily it makes youre heart skip a beat. This one, was very manageable, and the chicken quite tender ($8.45).
Beefsteak tagalog. I think its funny how they refer it to ‘beefsteak’, because your typical American would just assume that steak = beef ($8.95). Honestly, I don’t remember too much about this dish…
I ate at Salo-Salo more than a year ago and I am trying to pick my senses on what I remembered about each dish. Overall, I think it was a good start to try out Filipino food… but sadly to say, I have not gone to any other Filipino restaurants afterwards to give it a good comparision. I have, however, been to Filipino house parties and the food is always greasier there… not to mention surprise appearances by the whole lechon on a table!
