A few restaurants I wanted to support:

Uni Nom
Here’s a piece from the NY Times about it:
Once home to a Laundromat, the Bed-Stuy spot Umi Nom is now an outpost of sleek design and adventurous cooking – a destination worthy of a trip on the G train, courtesy of the pioneering chef King Phojanakong, of Kuma Inn on the Lower East Side. The menu at Uni Nom (tagalog for “to drink”) “consists of artfully composed small plates of Asian comfort food, elevated by technique but primal in appeal,” Ligaya Mishan writes. She likes the delicate crispy chicken wings, “the nearly deliquescent pork-belly adobo” and “the dizzyingly hot” papaya salad. “If you’re daring, Mr. Phojanakong can be a guide to the wild side,” she writes, offering the Filipino delicacy balut, a fertilized duck egg. Bring whatever you want to wash it down with – the restaurant is BYOB for the time being. – NY Times

Purple Yam – new place in Brooklyn from the former owners of Cendrillion, a great Filipino restaurant in Soho where I spent my bachelorette party dinner.

There was a great neighborhood place in the East Village, Elvie’s Turo-Turo, which means (pick-a-pick) but it closed.

There’s a million great places in California. I’ll need to do a tour. But I always liked Max’s Chicken – a transplant from the Philippines – the house the fried chicken built. It’s like a fast casual place. But there are tons of more upscale places.

In San Mateo, Bistro Luneta is really good.