Austin has a lot of strip malls, most of which contain some combination of a nail salon, a vape shop, and a Pilates studio. Tucked into one on Far West Boulevard is Kapatad, a restaurant serving a mix of homestyle Filipino dishes and Chinese-American takeout classics. And while you can get a solid plate of sesame chicken here, it’s the other half of the menu, with sizzling platters of pork sisig and crispy pork belly, that you should be visiting for. The menu reads like a greatest hits collection of Filipino staples—dinuguan, adobo, kare-kare—all served hot, fresh, and ready to satisfy. Start with a few pieces of thin, crispy lumpia for the table, then order pork belly in one of its many forms featured across the menu. Whatever you do, save room for the sisig. It arrives on a blistering hot skillet, loud enough to make even the most loyal Chili’s fan rethink what it means to sizzle.
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