Jax Chibugan — Restaurant in National City

A new Filipino place to try with my mom. There's plenty of parking when we arrived around 11 AM on a Sunday. Walking in, the place was pretty busy. Food is ordered at the counter and they deliver to your table. We ordered the beef mami for my mom and Tapsilog for me. The mami was delicious. Beef was very tender and very tasty. The noodles tasted very good, too. Tasted like they cooked the noodles in the beef broth. The tapsilog was also very good. Beef tapa was very tender and not salty. A lot of restaurants that serve tapa make it too salty. This place was just perfectly seasoned. eggs and fried rice were very good, too. Will definitely come back here to try...

Delicious food! Tapsilog and 6 salt and pepper chicken wings were absolutely outstanding. I wish a food photo could have been snapped; however after phoning in my order and picking up 15 minutes later, the 10-minute drive home and the food’s aromatics were too much for me to control myself. I did not make it to the dinner table and sat on my front room couch and began my joyous first experience with Jax Chibugan.

The beef, eggs and rice were so beautifully balanced, tender and killer it was difficult to imagine these flavors coming from a to-go plastic container.

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We ordered kare kare for $16.99. The meat is crunchy but dry with a very small container of bagoong or in English shrimp paste. Maybe around a teaspoonful of bagoong. So I asked for an extra bagoong. She said it’s not allowed. I said how about if I pay for it and she replied no. We spend $60 for 3 people. Their mango juice is bad too.

So beware if you decided to eat kare kare in this restaurant, make sure you bring your own bagoong. For the price, it’s too high when they can’t even afford to provide the bagoong. Well I even offer to pay for it. What a...