Pork adobo in a rich sauce of soy, garlic, peppercorn and bay leaf. Crispy fried lumpia. Savory peanut butter beef stewed with veggies called “kare kare.”
Does that sound like something you can get in a Vancouver restaurant? It will be in late January when the city’s first Filipino restaurant, Kuya’s Casa, opens in the former Duck Tails spot at 612 N. Devine Road.
Fred Asa, one of the co-owners of Kuya’s Casa, is expanding his Gresham, Ore., location after eyeing Vancouver for years.
“I’ve been thinking about it for several years but couldn’t find a place that’s reasonable and convenient,” he said. “Now you don’t have to cross the river, and there’s quite a bit of Filipinos there in Vancouver.”