Lechon sisig with rice meal ($10)!
Thursday Filipino lunch — lechon sisig with rice meal $10. Crispy chopped roast pork with sour-spicy seasoning over rice.
Thursday lunch — lechon sisig with rice meal at $10. The Filipino crispy chopped roast pork dish at the casual restaurant pricing.
We ordered:
- Lechon sisig with rice meal — $10
Sisig (シシグ) is the Filipino dish of finely chopped pork (traditionally from a pig’s head — face, cheeks, ears) seasoned with calamansi (Filipino lime), chilli, onion, and soy. The dish is one of the more iconic Filipino comfort foods, served sizzling on a hot iron plate at sit-down restaurants.
The lechon sisig variant uses lechon (Filipino-style roast pork) as the base meat rather than the traditional pig’s head cut. Lechon is the celebratory whole-roast-pig dish that defines Filipino fiesta food — slow-roasted over coals until the skin is shatteringly crispy and the meat is tender. The lechon sisig takes the leftover roast pork (or specifically roasted pork for sisig), chops it finely, and seasons it the sisig way.
This plate had the proper lechon sisig texture and flavour profile. The chopped pork had visible bits of crispy skin (the giveaway of real lechon rather than just sautéed pork), with the meat itself shredded fine. The calamansi-soy-chilli seasoning hit the right sour-spicy-salty balance — bright lime sourness up front, slow chilli heat building, salty soy-sauce depth underneath.
Onion provided the secondary aromatic — diced raw white onion that adds the proper pungent bite that the cooked sisig needs. A raw egg yolk on top is sometimes the traditional finishing touch (you stir it in to bind the dish into a richer texture); this plate either had it or didn’t depending on the restaurant’s preparation.
Served over a generous portion of plain white rice. The eating ritual is the mix — combine the sisig with the rice, then eat by the spoonful so each bite has both components together.
A side of soup or vegetable might have come with the meal as the standard Filipino-restaurant set format.
At $10 for the meal this is fair Filipino casual restaurant pricing. The format is substantial enough to be a real lunch, with proper protein-and-carb portions.
Filipino food in Singapore had been growing in availability through 2020, partly because of the larger Filipino expat community and partly because of the post-lockdown reopening of cuisine niches that hadn’t gotten attention pre-pandemic.
Overall: 4.1 / 5. 😋👍🏼 Solid lechon sisig meal — would re-order.
