1 /5 David Felton: At Bang Bang in Colindale I decided to be adventurous and try a place Id never been before, despite being a regular to the food court. That place was PinoyBites, and I can say with absolute certainty, this was one of the most disappointing and bland meals Ive ever had.
I ordered the tocilog, which as any Philippino will tell you has three simple components, 1. chicken tocino 2. garlic fried rice 3. a fried egg. Somehow they managed to mess up every single part of this dish.
Chicken tocino should be sweet, garlicky, with flavours of pineapple and caramelised sugar. This was a pile of flavourless meat. Honestly, I cant believe how bad it was. Zero flavouring, and zero seasoning, just a big red pile of meat which was not juicy or fresh in the slightest. Terrible. I ended up feeding this to my dog.
Now let me address the other parts of the dish. The rice was similarly tasteless. It was neither fried or contained any garlic. Bland and lazy.
Finally how do you mess up a fried egg? It was burnt on the bottom and around the edges. Badly and poorly cooked.
When you order at any vendor in Bang Bang, you usually get the food within 5-10 minutes. I waited about 30-40 minutes to receive this luke warm, poorly cooked and insultingly bland meal. I am writing this review so you dont have to suffer the same fate as me. Do NOT go to PinoyBites unless you want overpriced, underseasoned and tastelessly awful cooking. Just dont go. If youre thinking about it, dont.
I have been to the Philippines twice and my girlfriend is a Filipino. The food in the Philippines is absolutely delicious. This meal was garbage and the only place it should go is in the bin. Revoltingly bad. Insultingly bad. Im angry and how bad this meal was. Shame on you PinoyBites.