Sarap!

There are a couple of new Filipino restaurants in town, and on Saturday my mom and I sampled one of them. Sarap (which means delicious and is pronounced sah-RAHP) was preceded in the same location by two other Filipino restaurants: the short lived Bayanihan Café, and before that the You-Ka Café for a few years. My mom and I were big fans of the You-Ka so we thought we'd try Sarap. It was great! I'm a vegetarian, and the You-Ka always had vegetarian pancit on offer, but unfortunately Sarap does not, only pancit with meat in it. Apparently they do usually serve a vegetarian curry but they were out, so that left me a little stumped. The chef was kind enough to whip up some stir fried veggies for me in a curry sauce (I don't know if it's the same as their vegetarian curry) and it was absolutely sarap! Photo below. It was so good! Two thumbs up for sure, but since there was literally nothing else on the menu that I could eat except for desserts, I think I'll try the other Filipino restaurant that just opened, the Kamayan Hideaway. It's much closer to my house and it sounds like they serve vegetarian lumpia, hooray! That just warms the cockles of my half Filipino heart!