San Francisco offers much in the way of culture to visitors. This is especially true when it comes to the city’s vast landscape of food options. Consider a recent article for the ABS-CBN News titled “Pinay opens first kamayan-style restaurant in San Francisco.”
Rommel Conclara of ABS-CBN News writes, “A new Filipino restaurant in San Francisco is offering diners kamayan-style dinner. Pampalasa restaurant is located in the South of Market neighborhood, an area historically known to have a large Filipino community. Owner Jennifer Villamin and Chef Bayani Inclano Jr. offer the city their take on Filipino culture and food. ‘We’re not fusion but we’re not specifically very traditional either. It’s more representative of a lot of us, American-born Filipinos and our experience with food. Our menu is very traditional in a sense that we keep the traditional names but a lot of the ingredients are very modern,’ Villamin said. Pampalasa is San Francisco’s first ‘kamayan-optional’ restaurant that aims to make Filipino cuisine more accessible for first-time customers. ‘We set up this entire experience for you so that you can eat with your hands and feel comfortable about doing it and be willing to learn an aspect of Filipino culture that [you] never knew about,’ said Villamin. Other Filipino Americans say they are getting re-acquainted with their roots through food. ‘I was born in the Philippines so we would eat with our hands but it was never a presentation like this,’ said Nilma Rubin. ‘It wasn’t like a huge celebration kind of thing. It was a normal daily thing so it’s actually really cool to see that here.’ Filipino-Americans say that are proud to see that other people also enjoy Filipino food and customs. ‘It’s amazing that they could take our culture in, accept it and have fun with it too,’ said Jasmine Tadema. The Laris siblings celebrated their father’s birthday at the restaurant. They said eating kamayan-style made the birthday more memorable.”
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