Point-Point Joint

2 item combo plate / adobo chicken, buttery sauteed mushrooms, rice with adobo sauce, side soup - 5 stars! I was heading to another place in the same strip mall but the place I had originally picked was recently closed. I had noticed Point-Point Joint before but hadn't gone in. I figured why not since I was already there. And what a lovely treat this place was! They serve their lunch items the same way a Chinese to-go place does - combo plates with rice and a soup. They had a dozen entrees to choose from. I am trying to eat less meat, so that's why I went with the sauteed mushrooms. Probably the menu item most westerners are familiar with is adobo. Adobo is essentially a marinade introduced by Spain that the Phillipines has made their own and it is awesome. The lady serving me asked if I wanted to pour the adobo sauce from the chicken on the rice. I would never have thought of this if I was ordering online and it was an excellent suggestion. I am going to go back and try more of their menu items. It is close by to my house, has great prices for a lunch, and is in a big strip mall with lots of parking.

I arrived at 20 minutes to closing. The food looked as tired as the ambience, which was information/services-filled; this is a Filipino meeting place with Filipino food, not vice versa, if you catch my drift. I tasted the food and -- I am a Filipino reviewing our native cuisine, so for lack of a better term, I'm an expert at this -- it had the taste of home. Authentic. Unhealthy. Delicious.