#11 Try 25 New Restaurants (2 of 25)

Try 25 New Restaurants
2 of 25

Hapa SF pop-up pulutan at La Victoria Bakery
2937 16th Street
San Francisco, CA

Hapa SF is in actuality a Filipino food truck, a product of the recent craze of alternative/fusion-ish taco trucks. Every now and then, they have a pop-up restaurant event at La Victoria Bakery in the Mission. Hapa SF, in their words, is "modern organic casual Filipino cuisine blended with California sensibilities in the least likely of settings: a taco truck."

California sensibilities? That usually means a crazy attempt to infuse some sort of healthy spin on food that shouldn't be (i.e. most Filipino cuisine).

So this here is the "Sisig" Hodo Soy Tofu Ferry Plaza Market Vegetables. For those of you unfamiliar with sisig, it's a cubed pork and liver dish seasoned with calamansi and peppers, served sizzling hot under some egg. Hapa SF's theory is that if you serve vegetables using the same seasonings as a meat dish normally would be, it would be pretty much the same.

It wasn't.

But don't get me wrong, it was still good.

Next up, the Mechado sliders achara:
It's exactly what it is named: mechado (beef stew dish) in slider form. Yawn. But tasty.