Monday, September 14, 2009

Phil-Am Food Market


(201) 963-0455
683 Newark Ave
, Jersey City, NJ 07306







I reviewed this food market before but this new review is about the food that they serve next door.
You enter through the main doors and walk around the corner to the right to see a cooked food station that serves 2 main dishes with a side of rice (or noodle) and includes a can of soda for only $5.25!
Dishes vary every day so it exciting experience each time I visit. On this particular day, I had the pata (pork knuckles braised in sweet sauce), kangkong (sauteed water spinach) and palabok (rice noodles with shrimp). I chose a can of iced tea.
Everything was tasty and the meal was filling! Other Filipino restaurants in the area offer the same turo turo (point point)for about $5 but this place you can also buy the ingredients to make it yourself at home.
You can also buy food to take out (they offer whole grilled milkfish $8 and fried whole tilapia $4) and the varieties of Filipino dishes are all delicious!
Comes in handy if you go with a Filipino friend who knows the dishes but the servers all know English.

This place has quickly become one of my favorite places to eat /shop at in NJ.