{"id":3267,"date":"2022-08-27T00:17:48","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T16:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=3267"},"modified":"2024-06-04T06:34:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T22:34:41","slug":"tapsilog-express-in-san-leandro-offers-tasty-quick-filipino-silogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2022\/08\/tapsilog-express-in-san-leandro-offers-tasty-quick-filipino-silogs\/","title":{"rendered":"San Leandro Bites:\u00a0 Tapsilog Express"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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I’m a big fan of Filipino food, a very successful fusion of Asian and Spanish\/Latin American cuisine, but we seldom get it because Filipino restaurants don’t really cater to vegetarians or vegans, and one of my daughters is one. So when we were kidless a few nights ago, it was a great opportunity to try one of the local Filipino restaurants. It was a wonderful night, so we figured we’d get take out and eat it in the patio, and Tapsilog Express seemed best suited for an easy take out experience. It was.

Tapsilog Express has some indoor seating, in a pleasant though not particularly alluring room, but it’s mostly a take out place. They have a simplified menu of meat mains served with rice and a fried egg, as well as some appetizers, drinks and a couple of desserts. We got two orders of lumpia, the tosilog and the chorizosilog . I also got the pineapple cooler and flan for dessert. The food came out very quickly, about 10 minutes after ordering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The lumpia<\/strong> ($7.50 per order) were small, 1 1\/2″ pieces, but there was a good amount of them per order (the picture shows two). They were tasty by themselves, which is a good thing as the sweet and sour sauce they came with was overwhelmingly sour and not very tasty. I’d only get these again if I had sauce at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tosilog<\/strong> ($11) is described as Filipino bacon, but it’s more like pork strips marinated in a sweet sauce. It lacks the crispiness of bacon. It was pretty good, though I felt it lacked “umph”. Still, I enjoyed it. I also enjoyed mixing the egg yolk with the rice.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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My husband similarly enjoyed his chorizo<\/strong> ($11). It was slightly sweet and very tasty. He’d get it again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The flan<\/strong> itself was pretty standard, but the caramel sauce was tastier than usual – probably because it was cooked to perfection. I’m a big flan fan and I’d have it again.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I seldom get juices\/fountain drinks at restaurants (other than soda), but their pineapple cooler<\/strong> ($3) had good reviews so I decided to give it a try. It was actually very good, a great proportion of pineapple juice to water, so that it had a nice pineapple taste but it wasn’t overwhelmingly sweet or heavy. I’d have it again.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Tapsilog Express<\/a>\n14843 Washington Ave.\nSan Leandro, California\n(510) 878-1232\nM-Su 11:30 am \u2013 07:30 pm<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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