Day 37: Filipino Food Truck

Growing up with my mom's side of the family no more than one state away, family get togethers have always been big, and the tables are always full of Filipino food.

Despite having 75 or so relatives in Connecticut, and dozens of close family friends, I've only ever had family-made Filipino food, and the same goes for Cole. There's a small Filipino restaurant in Connecticut that I still haven't made my way to, and the next nearest one I know is just outside of Boston. So, in looking for something new and different to do in Denver (because Cole has probably done a lot already), I looked up "Filipino" on Yelp. Through Yelp, I found A Taste of the Philippines, a Filipino food truck in the heart of Civic Center Park in Denver!

Cole and I invited Cole's parents, Sharon and Tim to join us for lunch, and they happily agreed! After Sharon picked us up at the airport, we met with Tim at the park, where food trucks lined the area. The smallest of them all was A Taste of the Philippines. 


Kathy, the owner of the food truck, warmly greeted us all upon arriving. She told us that she was born in the Philippines and moved to the US as a child. After years in the business sector, she took her mother's recipes and opened this food truck. Many of the dishes were already sold out by the time we arrived. Cole and Tim indulged in Manok sa Gata, ​chicken simmered in coconut milk with ginger, garlic, bamboo shoots. Sharon and I enjoyed Tapa, caramelized pork with garlic and onions. Kathy gave us half a dozen lumpia with dipping sauce to enjoy, too.

The food was delicious, so it wasn't hard to see why the food truck sold out of most of their food by the time we arrived. And Kathy was so friendly, that it was the icing on the cake.