Noypitz (West Covina, CA)

It is seldom that we find a great Filipino Restaurant that we really like. However, a couple of months ago while we were on our way to see a show at the Edwards Theater in West Covina, we stumbled upon a newly opened Filipino Restaurant called Noypitz, which looked so interesting.  After several weeks, we finally decided to try this out.  To our surprise, the food is really good and the service is great.  We ordered their Lumpia Shanghai as an appetizer, which was really good.  For anyone who is not familiar with this dish, it happens to be one of the most popular dish served at Filipino parties.  This is definitely a recommended choice of appetizer at Noypitz.  For the main entrees, we ordered their Fried Chicken that is crispy on the outside but so tender on the inside.  We tried one of our favorite dish, the Sizzling Bistek, which is a tender sirloin beef stips cooked in soy sauce and lemon and garnished with onion slices.  We were in seventh heaven at that point.  Just when we thought that it can't get any better than that, we tried the Adobong Sitaw.  This is string beans simmered in soy sauce, vinegar and garlic, mixed with shrimp and pork. This dish was highly pleasing to our palate that it pushed us beyond seventh heaven and out into the culinary galaxy.  And it was in that elevated space of euphoria where we enjoyed their Flan that was so silky smooth and lavishly flavorful, that you can no longer compare the meal at Noypitz with anything else.  The only words to utter at this point is "remarkably good."

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