“So why doesn’t Miami have a myriad of Filipino restaurants?” Pamela Robin Brandt of the Miami New Times writes:

For one thing, many of the dishes’ native Tagalog names don’t make them sound as accessible as they are. Butse-butse? Surely a rare tropical disease or some kind of fruit fly. Dinuguan sounds like a creature one would find hopping over the plains of Australia. Pinkabet [actually, pinakbet--Ed.] has gotta be a new Pokeman. And puto bumbong sounds like a specialty of an exotic whorehouse/opium den, not a restaurant offering.

But while Brandt rolled her tongue in pronouncing exotic names of these Pinoy dishes, she was certainly impressed by the menu at Tatay’s, a Filipino restaurant based in north Miami.

Read the full-length review here.