Filipino food right on the Las Vegas Strip

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A catch up post, yet again...
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The advantage of having Ate Grace and Kuya Nat arrive ahead in Las Vegas is that they were able to search for good places to eat. :) And so on my last day in Las Vegas, they recommended to Mommy and Daddy a restaurant in the Hawaiian Marketplace called Kapit Bahay Filipino Fast Food. I was so surprised to see a Filipino restaurant smack in the center of the Las Vegas Strip! 

The restaurant setting was very different from the formal and the buffet restaurants we've eaten in. It's typical of the restaurants I go to in the Philippines (the office cafeteria, for example): just point at the food you fancy from a few selections in a glass case. The server puts them in bowls, gives you a plate with cupfuls of rice, allows you to collect your bottled beverage from the nearby fridge, and then collects your payment at the end of the queue. The only difference between Kapit Bahay and the restaurants I normally eat at is the size of the serving. Kapit Bahay's servings are larger than of the local restaurants.

At the time of the day we were there, I wasn't surprised that only a few people were eating. After all, with the city really beginning to be alive at dusk, I expect a lot of people to still be asleep so early in the day. With only a few people there, I had breakfast with a good view of the MGM Grand's Cirque du Soleil billboard for KA.

I'm happy that Filipinos have brought our food to different corners of the world. Though our cuisine may not be as popular as other Asian cuisines, having these little restaurants in foreign cities will certainly help the culture gain attention through food. Plus, these restaurants certainly help Filipinos abroad have a sense of home, away from home.
Location: S Las Vegas Blvd, NV, USA

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