Manila Bay Cuisine — Restaurant in Daly City

I stopped eating at Manila Bay Cuisine for a few reasons: 1) food is too greasy, 2) overpriced, & 3) slow, judgmental service. As a Filipino American, I already know that Filipino food is greasy and high in sodium, fat, sugar and/or carbs. Since I eat Filipino food at home, I prefer not to eat it outside unless family insists on it. In this case, I wouldn't recommend Manila Bay Cuisine because it just doesn't taste as good as the Filipino food I have at home. Afritada? Too salty. Diniguan? Too oily. Sinigang? Stingy about meat. Kare Kare? Lacks peanut butter and color.

Additionally, it's become overpriced within the past few years. The last time I ordered from this place was when I overheard the Filipino women behind the counter talking bad about a non-Filipino patron in Tagalog. I found it to be unprofessional and decided to call them out on it, which they didn't like, but neither did the paying customer. I think that if you're going to gossip about paying customers, do it in the kitchen or on your lunch break because that just adds negativity on top of the expensive and poor...

They had a lot of traditional filipino dishes and it was nostalgic because they were served "carenderia" style where all the viands were in front of you and you just point at the one you want to order. I wanted to try the kare kare, but they didn't have bagoong. Eyeing the embotido and the lumpia for my next visit! They also had some drinks and dessert

I ordered Adobong Pusit - good taste! It was clean and tasty. I ordered the small, but I only ate half of it. Very filling. The sauce was not as dark as I'm used to, but I still liked it. No option for combo meals or rice meals. They only had the choice of small medium or large cup. Also got sisig for take out. It's minced pork, a bit sour. I would prefer the crunch version, probably won't order the sisig on my next visit.

The ladies serving were nice. Just a reminder if you use credit card, there will be...

‼️‼️DO NOT EAT HERE‼️‼️

I was leaving the mall after making a couple purchases and had already been planning to get Filipino food.

On the way out, I saw Manila Bay and thought “Oh, how convenient”. I then went ahead and order what I thought was a combo and it turned out it was Ala cart.

I then proceeded to ask how much it was for a small cup (a half cup) and a medium cup (a cup) and they proceeded to tell me $9 and $11. I then noticed when they went to get the packing cups, they weren’t the ones being showed or advertised but smaller.

I then asked for rice and they gave me half a cup of rice. I asked for a little more and they did a spoonfull.

I then went to pay as I was annoyed and they charged me for double rice!

To end it, the food wasn’t that great, very oily and staff was rude. Avoid here...