Over the last few months, I’ve been excitedly reading about how Filipino food is becoming the next great America cuisine, how Filipino food will win the hearts and minds of the world (spoken by the man himself, Anthony Bourdain), how the time for Filipino cuisine is now, and the place is Los Angeles.
So if you ask me what to eat in LA, I will say: Filipino food. Of course, you should make the most out of your trip and eat other cuisines as well (and this blog post will chronicle just how much we were able to eat in four days). But seriously, eat some Filipino food.

Here are my recommendations on What to Eat in L.A.:
Eat ube ice cream at Wanderlust Creamery.
Start with the beautiful ube malted crunch ice cream from Wanderlust Creamery, on an ube cone. Ube is purple yam, sweet and with the most vibrant purple color, ubiquitous at any Filipino family gathering. Since my childhood, any dessert with ube was an automatic favorite (my family actually makes fun of my obsession with it). Ube ice cream is on top of that list. This one from Wanderlust is ultra creamy, like white chocolate with a mild nuttiness, with crunchy pockets of malted milk balls. It’s one of the best ice creams I’ve had in years.
Eat a Filipino meal with white rice at Park’s Finest.
There are many great Filipino restaurants in LA (my friends swear by Rice Bar and LASA) and all of them claim that Park’s Finest is the one that will jolt me back to the Philippines. So thatR...