Little Ongpin — Restaurant in Los Angeles

"Met this lil lady, she was fresh from the I. She smelled like bagoong, it almost made me cry. I said to her head "Do you eat billy goat?" She looked at me and said "No. Only balut." I'm a Filipino, I'm a Filipino. My hair is so high. My, my, my."-"I'm a Filipino", 3 Local Boyz

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Discovered this place while looking for someplace to eat during my many f/u visits to the bone marrow transplant unit on the eight floor of Kaiser Permanente on 1515 N Vermont. Inexpensive, ready made Filipino food for a quick meal is what Little Ongpin is all about.

Interior-wise, not someplace to impress a date. No A/C to beat the heat. However, cheap entrée combinations are the calling card for Little Ongpin. Adobo, dinuguan, menudo, bistek, mochado, pried pish & the rest of the usual suspects are well represented. Want hot buns in your hands? I know I do! Steamd siopao are $1.75 each or 12/$20

I've had their beef lomi soup & have enjoyed it. Ditto for their pancit miki-bihon. You're in for a real treat during the weekends, where traditional Filipino breakfast items greet those that stumble out of bed to come here. If dried herring, smoked galunggong, longanisa, corned beef & champorado sound good to you, then breakfast is served, manang!

Service has been okay. A few booths available to enjoy your meal, with a flatscreen having Filipino news, game shows or the trending telenovela for your viewing pleasure. Parking is street & residential in the surrounding area.

Flip out for Filipino food, in Little Armenia of all places. Why not? Cheap prices on entrée combinations, with breakfast on the weekend will keep the Filipinos coming like a liquidation sale on Spam. And non-Filipinos that enjoy Filipino food, too! You can go to Kaiser Permanente for your high blood pressure & cholesterol, and afterwards, come here to maintain said high blood pressure & cholesterol. Win...

1/2 minute read: If memory serves me, Little Ongpin has been here since the late 1980’s. The menu you see there has been (basically) the same. There’s nothing to complain about that. They provide a good number of dishes that are popular with their culture. You’ll see Pancit Bijon, Pancit Miki, fried fish, Kari Kare, Sisig and other standards. If you would like more information related to those menu items, I’ve found that YouTube can help you. Just go to YouTube and search the name, like PORK SISIG. There’s street parking and just next door, there’s a parking lot but I’m not sure if it’s private. As I mentioned, LITTLE ONGPIN has been open at that same location for some 35 years, meaning- they have a faithful Following, including my wife and I. My wife loves the Pancit Bijon, and I’m not picky- I like it all BUT I won’t eat a dish made with Blood. The service is good, courtesy, fast and easy. Eat in or take out. The Servers are helpful and friendly. If you can, leave them a tip. OK, I’ll have more photos...

I'm from MD. What was for dinner tonight - Filipino food. I've never been able to just go to a Filipino resteraunt because there weren't any around. In Thai town, i found a really good homestyle Filipino resteraunt. At home I would have to wait for dad or someone in the family to make something. Or beg

-Pancit MK with meat and seafood. - Miki a type of fresh thick flour noodle. Bihon is a thinner variant of a rice noodle. -Lumpia - pork spring roll -Pandesal - roll light ans airy with a hint of sweetness.

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