Sariling Atin
“Try their pork adobo and chicken Afritada..”
“according to one coworker who has Puerto Rican roots, "everything's slammin'!!!"”
“Oh, they also have take out and you can order large trays for catering to parties!”
Sariling Atin
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Has TV: Yes
Caters: Yes
Price range.
$ Price range Under $10
8 reviews
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Catering Review: 6/6/15
My wife and I decided to cater for our daughter's 1st birthday. We went to the actual location to try some of the food, particularly the pancit palabok and the bbq. The pancit palabok came with thick noodles, with a very delicious sauce, meat and shrimp, and sliced hard boiled eggs on top. Thank god for no weird seafood pieces like chopped squid like I've found at other places. The pork and chicken bbq, on the other hand, were just okay. We opted not to order for catering at a pricey $2.50 a stick. We did sit down for lunch and tried the pork adobo as well but it was way too oily and the pork had too much fat on it.
For the party, we ordered:
100 pieces of lumpia shanghai- standard, crispy, a hit with the kids especially.
25 pieces of turon- fried banana/jack fruit dusted usuaully with brown sugar wrapped in spring roll paper and fried, yummy!
1 tray of pancit palabok- as memtioned above, very good.
1/2 tray of Beef Kalderetta- spicy beef stew with chopped peppers and carrots. The beef was very tender, moist, easily cut with some but not too much fat on it. Very delicious.
1/2 tray of bicol express- spicy pork dish- the only dish I did not get to try much of as we were hosting the party. I did not hear anything bad about it though.
We opted to make our own lechon kawalli (fried pork belly) because catering for that was too overpriced here. [check out my Yelp review for Fortune chinese supermarket]
Note: 1/2 tray is really the way to go here. It's not that they have only one sized tray that they fill half of. Instead it is a slightly less deeper tray which in my opinion holds almost the same amount of beef/food/etc and at about half the listed price of the full tray item. We still had so much leftovers for the next few days after the party which had about 25 guests.
As the closest location to us here in Queens, this business is definitely a great place to cater from and one we will keep in mind for future special occasions.
Sara Long atin this place several times (she's a friend of mine, and she prefers everything "long" hence her last name of choice), to the point where the owners decided to rename the restaurant "Sara Long Atin Side Here" (their English isn't very good). So the restaurant "Sara Long Ate Inside Here" (or SLASH for short) did not fit on any signs, so they arbitrarily cut off the last two words, and you're left with Sara Long Atin. Now you know the back story.
What to get: Pork Adobo
What else: Anything from their buffet in the back of the store
And: and what? Stop grilling me, damn it.
And: this is getting f***ing ridiculous dude. Who are you anyway? And why are you asking me all these questions in the middle of my own review?
To be honest I was disappointed. The vast majority of the unique spectacular ethnic foods I've tried around Queens based on Yelp recommendations, rocked my world. And I'm open to anything, and I've loved Indonesian food before, especially in Holland. I've had some in Philly that was pretty good too. But this particular place didn't do it for me.
(a) Food was lukewarm, in fact more cold than lukewarm
(b) Food didn't taste amazing
(c) Service was angry or something
(d) High expectations based on other reviews
(e) Food tour partner started feeling sick just from a few bites, so it wasn't sharable either
(f) Cats enjoyed the Pork Adobo
I think a lot of places like that it is homestyle and so incredibly cheap. But I ordered two or three things, I have no idea what they were, from the buffet. I asked for "Pork Adobo" as one of them, she didn't respond, I assume that was one of the things she put in my to go box. The person serving wasn't big on communication, and wasn't too friendly either. She was a younger girl and it was nearly closing time, so maybe that's why. But on the other hand, the places was packed full of locals that were gulping down the food, and there was someone behind me in line for food.
Perhaps it's better when it's fresh, earlier in the day. We have a place in Buffalo like that (Niagara Cafe – Puerto Rican). I'd be willing to give it a try another time with a friend. But based on my first experience here, to be totally honest, the majority of everything was given to the cats. I only had a few bites, and my food tour partner barely even tasted our food before deciding she doesn't like Filipino food. Hopefully we can change that in future.
It's a super cool set-up though. A grocery store with a bunch of hot homemade dishes in the back, sitting out, waiting to be ordered and eaten. It's pretty cheap and it's the kind of place that would totally rock your world and define "secret hole in wall" if you loved the food. And you may – you should give it a try. I may just not know enough about Filipino cuisine to know what it's supposed to taste like. This may be amazing for you, but for me, it wasn't.
Also thank you to Alex L of Philadelphia (not the CM of Buffalo, a different one), for correcting me that this is Filipino food. I knew that, and was thinking that, but for some reason I wrote something else. Much appreciated!
Sara Long, on the other hand, loves it. But then she always did love it long. Standing to Atin-tion. And all that.
I love that my neighborhood is chock full of specialty ethnic markets, such as this one. Located right across the street from both the Target shopping center and Queens Center Mall is this market/buffet style restaurant. I was really pleased to see that I could easily get ube ice cream from here as opposed to trekking out to Woodside.
Filipino food isn't exactly vegetarian friendly, and the one veggie dish I got ended up having pork in it, but the food certainly looked vegetarian friendly. Would love to come back to the market, though, to stock up on Filipino seasonings and snacks.
Take me back! Amazing chicken bbq, a must try. Just thinking about the food here makes me want to come back. Yum!
Location of this place is incredibly convenient! If you're ever up for something a little out of the norm and feeling a little bit adventurous after you've done your shopping in queens center mall, stop by here for novel food items not easily found outside of certain neighborhoods!
Filipino food is up there for me at least in terms of uniqueness and variety of foods, this place does the trick, but was just average in terms of quality for me.
I ordered a bbq pork kebob marinated with a sweet and tangy soy based sauce, which was good, but not really anything to write home about. The meat was chewy and had a nice spring to it, but the fact that it was a tad bit cold was a bit off putting.
the Sissig was pretty good here, different than what I'm normally used to at other places, but still good! had a great combination of bacon like smokiness with a generous helping of onion, consistency was a bit slimy and temperature was lukewarm
the other dishes were incredibly forgetable, one was sliced up pig ears in a vinegar and tomato sauce, which had way too much vinegar for my liking.
the other dish was a beef stew dish that tasted too much of tomatoes and too sweet for my liking as well.
for cheap and convenient food for when the mood strikes, this place does an okay job….just don't expect anything other than average here
The salvation of this place is the Porchetta! As I was about to go home, they brought out a big piece of roast pork belly wrapped in crisp looking and evenly roasted pig skin. They sell this by the pound.
I brought it home for dinner. The meat is tender and juicy encased in evenly roasted crisp pork skin. What a treat! It is like an Italian Porchetta but better!
Another dish they sell which I like was the small butterflied fried fish. Although dry, it is crisp. I could eat the whole thing without removing any possible fish bone left over.
Although they gave me the traditional Philippine sauce for roast pork, I prefer eating all the above with garlic vinegar. If you eat it at their restaurant, they do have garlic vinegar. If you take it home, they can give you the special lechon sauce for the pork.
The other dishes are prepared in advance so it is not so fresh. The place is very reasonable. For under $10 you could have a full meal.
The place is inside a grocery store. Hence, you enter the restaurant through the store.
The food here is very hearty and authentic, and the flavor is a little bit stronger comparing to the several Filipino places in Woodside. Their pancit bihon and grilled pork are both delicious. However I would be happier if they can have more beef and chicken dishes.
Want some cheap, good filipino food? this is the spot! Food here is cooked already & you just got to pick which one you like. They have lots of choices. I'm suggesting to get their sisig or pork bbq! Its really good. They have lots of vegestables too.
If you want to get some filipino groceries & goodies like crackers, junk foods & desserts, you can get it here too! Its a mini grocery/mini restaurant type of store.
Love the location too! Very close to where I live so if I'm lazy to cook this spot is just a few blocks away & my filipino craving is solve.