At My Place Cafe Arizona Review: Sisig, Adobo & a Painful Chili Challenge

At My Place Cafe in Arizona: sizzling pork Sisig with egg, Chicken Adobo, Buko Pandan, and a tiny green chili that left me sweating and dizzy.

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We have been craving Filipino food and found a highly-rated Filipino-owned spot in Arizona called At My Place Cafe. Since we have not had the chance to travel to the Philippines yet, this was our chance to properly dig into the cuisine. Here is everything we ate, including a spicy chili I should not have underestimated.

Sizzling Pork Sisig

We came specifically for the Sisig, and it delivered completely. It arrived at the table piping hot and still sizzling, served with fresh lemon, a tiny chili pepper, and an egg on top.

The technique: pop the egg and mix it into the sizzling pork immediately. It makes the dish rich, starchy, and creamy all at once. The flavor is savory with a slight vinegar edge that works really well with the fatty pork.

This was the winner of the night. Vincent tried to claim both plates of white rice for himself to eat alongside it. I did not let that happen.

Chicken Adobo

We debated pork versus chicken and went with the chicken. The broth is rich, zesty, and vinegary in a way that is deeply comforting. We ended up mixing leftover white rice directly into the Adobo soup base and eating it alongside bites of Sisig. That combination was the best thing I ate all night.

The Spicy Chili Challenge

Vincent dared me to eat the tiny green chili pepper that came on the Sisig platter. I love spicy food so I said yes.

The first bite seemed manageable. Then the seeds hit the back of my throat. The heat was on a time delay. Within a minute my tongue was completely numb, I was sweating, and I felt genuinely dizzy. I had to keep drinking water just to recover.

Do not underestimate those tiny peppers.

Buko Pandan (Dessert)

Exactly what I needed to cool down. It is incredibly creamy and sweet, made with coconut milk and cream, loaded with different jellies and seeds for texture. The pandan flavor here was interesting: it tasted closer to honeydew or sweet melon rather than the pandan we know from Malaysia. Not what I expected, but very good.

If you are visiting in summer Arizona heat, this dessert is perfect.

A Word We Learned

Before leaving, we learned that the word for "delicious" in Tagalog is Masarap. It sounds surprisingly similar to the Korean phrase Mashisoyo. Everything at At My Place Cafe was definitely masarap. We cleared every plate and ate the dessert in the car on the way home.

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