Point Point Joint Restaurant

Best Filipino food in LA! They always hook you up, and everything tastes good. Not to mention it’s one of the few A rated Pinoy restaurants in the area. Come here, you won’t regret it.

Legit Filipino joint cafeteria style. Standouts: lechon with the sauce, dinuguan, chicken Adobo, pork sinigang. Their menu changes daily but there’s always something delicious.

I’ve been coming here on and off now and decided I really like to eat here. They have a good selection of entrees and the Filipino breakfast is hearty.
This morning, I came to get breakfast. They had choices like longganisa which is a sweet sausage, tosino, a sweetish bacon, daing ng bangs which is a fried fish, beef tapas which is sliced beef with onions and chicken adobo. You can get one of these with two scoops of garlic fried rice and two eggs over easy.
I decided to go with the chicken adobo because I felt like keeping away from pork. The owner serving me really loaded me up on the chicken adobo which I appreciated. He was very friendly and joked that it would be $ 10 and if I wanted coffee, it was another $ 10. We both had a good laugh and they charged me $ 5.75 which included coffee AND gave me a small side bowl of tangy soup. What a score!
The meal was excellent as I enjoy this type of breakfast tremendously! I enjoyed my meal while watching a Filipino game show which was like charades with some Filipino celebrities which is manny times corny but somewhat entertaining.
I’ve also come for lunch and the food here is tasty. I’ll probably make this one of my go-​to spots for fast food Filipino cuisine in the area.

The Best Filipino Fast Food In Town – Been Buying Food Here for over 15 years now! The owner is so sweet she always cooks special food for me whenever I order – Try the Chicken Teriyaki and her Lechon Kawali, Beef Mechado and Beef & Chicken Afritadas are all to die for!

I’m Mexican and I come here love tha pansi and the goat meat and the chicken adobo great fast service

If you can get past the smell (and I know I might be a bit rough on the words here) the taste of the food is ok but honestly if you want filipino food there are so many other great places to try. Try Manila Sunset on Vermont.

Mediocre is the only word that comes to mind. Portions were big and flavor was okay. Food was cold though.

I’m a fan of this eatery. I like the lechon, the chicken adobo, and the goat stew. I only didn’t like the fried fish as it was too greasy for me (for some reason this didn’t bother me in the lechon???) The food tastes home-​made. The cafeteria style setup reminds me of a lot of eateries in SE Asia.

The prices are so high I don’t recommend this place the lechon kawali is not part of the combo which is $ 7 it self and now the kare-​kare is also not part of the combo which is $ 6 next thing you know nothing is part of the combo seriously it’s not worth it I’m never coming back to this place!

Good place to take out Filipino food. The place is not inviting for dining in. The lechon kawali and pork barbque are my favorites.

WARNING TO ALL: Im American of filipino descent and works in the movie industry. So from my place in Los Feliz me and my gf went there yesterday May 14 2015 in rhe afternoon for some home grown stuff but were dismayed with how rude the ownner was, the lady with bleached brown hair. Upoon finishing the greasy lechon, I looked up to the food attendant to ask here thw rest room was to wash my hands cuz I didnt see a big visible sign, I was ignored cuz apparently she was busy and didnt want to be disturbed so I realized this unique place has a small sink near the cashier, suggesting this was were you wash your hands as Filipino culture dictates the «kamayan style of eating» like using ones hands to eat traditionally. So without heesitation I did just that and this lady suddenly blurted out angrily Dont wash your hands there! And other expletives, i said sorry cuz its my first time there. As it turned out the rest room as this tiny cubicle like corridor that led into a room with a sign Rest Room, and on its sides were litered with various junk like boxes, cleaning soap and other things you dont find un a reputable restaurant. I thought we got standards in America? While the squid, dinuguan and lechon was average tasting I dont recommend this place if your e you used to courtesy and politeness. Boy what an experience. This place sucks! Bad customet service!

For me, this is my go to for Filipino food. The food is great! the service is great l! you get to pick what you want. Her barbecue sticks are the best in town. The chicken adobo is really really great. We also have her cater our party sometimes too. And her Shanghai Lumpia is the bomb! It’s located in a strip mall, but don’t let that fool you. The food is very very good and so are the people. And if you come at lunchtime you can see the manila based variety shows on the Filipino TV channel. And on certain days they have spaghetti with hot dog! So good. #comfortFood

My wife (a Filipina) and I (an albinoid white boy who takes the term «white boy» to extremes) have been eating here for years. The food was always pretty decent; not great, but fine for fast, easy and reasonably cheap fare.
Then they added lechon to the menu, and now it’s one of our favorite places. Sure, the lumpia is fine (about half as good as my wife’s), the adobo is acceptable (about a third as good as MY adobo, which isn’t as good as my wife’s) and the pancit is better than merely okay (I’ve had better, but it’s very good for a buffet place) – but the lechon blows them all away. They use a slightly leaner part of the pig for the regular lechon I think (I’m guessing the back meat) and the flavor is hard to beat; it’s actually better than some of the authentic whole-​pig lechon that I’ve had, and that’s saying something. However, the new «Bellychon» is even better. With this, they wrap about half a pork belly around the seasonings (I advise you to scrape the seasonings away prior to eating, as I do) and roast it. The skin isn’t quite as crisp or as thin as the regular lechon (which is also oven-​roasted, I believe), but the seasoning is radically wicked. (Did I really say that? I guess the Southern Californian inside can’t be subdued forever.)
I recommend calling first if you don’t live nearby, because they don’t always have lechon ready for sale (the stuff takes a while to cook, even in an oven). But if they have lechon or bellychon, do yourself a favor and try it.

I often order here for family parties and they never let me down! Food is always good and the lady behind the counter always greets us with a big smile!

Definitely my go-​to for fast Filipino food! And hands down, the best lechon kawali in town! And the lechon sauce is a little special too! The garlic rice in the morning for breakfast is fabulous. Get it with some tapa and tocino with a sunny side egg on top, and you’re all set! If you’re lucky, they might have pork barbecue already made… and you should get it!
I’ve been going for years, and I’m sorry that I never remember everyone’s name in there.:(But they are all awesome!

Went into Turo Turo Joint to get my fix for something extremely porky, meaty, fatty to satisfy that primal urge to be a carnivore which strikes me once in a while since I usually am an omnivore with major emphasis on vegetables & fruits. So today I went from being a meek omnivore to a freaking, aggressive carnivore with sharp nails out & baring even sharper fangs walking into Turo Turo knowing I wanted their Lechon Kawali.
Lechon Kawali is not for the faint hearted already loaded down with tons of artery clogging cholesterol which in reality I am. Lechon Kawali is primal food that probably dates back to the origin of the Pilipino culture from thousands of years ago when the brave Malay peoples dispersed from some point in Southeast Asia and went as far west as Madagascar off the coast of Africa, as far east as Rapa Nui or Easter Island and the Hawai’ian Islands. This was quite an accomplishment considering this was done about 2000 years ago.
To those adventurous, ancient Malay mariners, taking a boat to go to the Philippines was like taking a bus ride. The one important passenger besides humans was an animal most prized for its sweet meat, and the ability of this animal to be able to eat a wide range of food to be able to survive the passage over thousands of miles of open water… This was the pig, swine, hog. To this day, I believe that the Philippino culture still reveres and has perfected the cooking of Pork to emphasize its more wild, feral, gamier flavour that satisfies the truly carnivorous.
Turo Turo which means Point, Point in Tagalog so in Turo Turo Joint all you have to do is point to the already prepared foods to order what you want. It is a very early form of «slowly cooked» fast food and is certainly superior to what is offered in such American fast food places such as Carl’s Jr., Chick Fil-​A, McDonnald’s or other such ilk.
A Lechon Kawali is in principle, a very simple dish. Slaughter a pig, cut it up into larger pieces, throw the meat into a vat of lard, and let it fry in a vat of its own fat. The French would call this a Confit when food is allowed to cook in its own juices, but Pilipinos were doing this more than two thousand years ago way before the establishment of France.
At Turo Turo, the Lechon is a multi-​layer taste sensation. Try the top layer where the skin is crisp and the underlying fat adds a luxurious, fatty oiliness. The second layer is meat but somehow slightly charred so the meat is like a dry, shredded jerky. The inner most meat is moist, soft, almost creamy in places with a pork scent that will set carnivores into a frenzy as though they are sharks going in for the kill.
For $ 7.40 you get a generous helping of this enchanted porcine wonder in a large styrofoam cup covered with aluminum foil. Yes, Turo Turo as the name suggests is a proud-​to-​be-​downhome JOINT which connotes that nothing is ever going to be fancy in a tres haute cuisine manner or fashion. Just take the stuff you order from Turo Turo and gussify it at home in some good china, and tastefully garnish with some nasturtium flowers or some fancy herbs if you want to make a silk purse from a sow’s ear.
Also, they included a small cup of a brown thickened sweet liver sauce, Mang Tomas, which I enlivened at home by adding my own purée of fresh Jalapeño pepper & garlic in Japanese rice vinegar. This added the needed gastrique as well as a hot spiciness that went well with the oily, meaty, meat heavy Lechon.
I haven’t tried other foods at Turo Turo yet so I tentatively set my rating as 3+ Unilocal stars. Looks as though I will have to order other foods the next time I go back to T-​T.

Please do not take this the wrong way but I am sure a lot if you have been to a Filipino restaurant better than this one. I gave it 2 stars because #1 it was overpriced #2no display of combos they’re selling #3 the lady who served me seems to disregard the way of properly packing my order to go.
I ordered 3 pieces of fish (milkfish) and she don’t bother to ask me which ones (all tails She packed) —when I got home the fish was fried in old oil from frying something else — . She puts them on aluminum foil just as it is. And then I ordered another side dish of veggies medium size and wraps it on a seram wrap without putting any lid on it. When she handed me the bag, the container already tipped over. While watching her packed my food, this other lady got her order to go on a better container that fitted everything.
I was definitely hesitating and my mind was telling me just to cancel my order but I ddnt want to come off a b so I went ahead and just went on with my order.
I just felt like the lady was not willing to help me out to begin with. Overall I don’t think ill ever go back to this place again. I am reading OThEr about using a card and I must’ve went on a bad day because as Some bought items less than $ 10 with no charge, the lady charged mine??? .What kind of business is this showing?

I’m a fan, it took a little over 2hrs by bus to get here but it was worth it! Havent had Filipino food since I moved out of my mothers place. The Adobo (my favorite dish) was very tasty and had a strong flavor, which to me is awesome! Also got the Hawaiian chicken thing, forgot what its called in Tagalog. Fail on my part haha.
The area: grungy area but next to a giant staples (i think) and near Yogurt land as well.
Seating: Plenty
The door: haha yeah the door it only goes inward so dont push out when your exiting.
Owners?: Really friendly and are quick to serve people
The prices: THE PRICES! AWESOMEEEE low and worth it!
TV: filipino channels (not sure how many)
I’ll be back there for sure to try more dishes!

**STARS: 3.5**
Uhm… picture this… we were driving early … way to early … starving … and borderline catering to a hang over… I saw the name and cracked up… convinced the friends… next thing you know… we were «point point» for breakfast.
I opted to get their tapsilog… it’s actually quite decent. Yes it was fatty… yes it was oozing in oil but hey… I was hungry… craving Filipino food… this was it… Price was typical for a Filipino joint.
Friendly folks… and of course… I got the «oh, I thought you were Chinese» while I was speaking in Tagalog to the lady… gotta love that!

I’m admittedly not very knowledgeable about Filipino food at all, but I’m open to anything. When an actual Filipino I know offered to take me here for breakfast and was excited to go, I figured it had to be somewhat legit.
This place is in a strip mall with other Filipino restaurants/​stores, and is easily overlooked if you don’t know about it. It opens early and had a good-​sized before-​work crowd. It’s set up almost cafeteria-​style, with an ordering counter, Styrofoam plates and containers, trays, and a TV with Filipino morning news. It’s not a place to take a date or linger with friends, and it’s not much for décor, but it’s a great place to stop by for fast comfort food, on a quick lunch break, or to get some food to go.
It was set up Panda-​Express style of serving dishes behind a glass counter. An entire wall of the restaurant is dedicated to packaged snacks for sale. The portions were huge (I didn’t eat for the rest of the day) and prices were reasonable.
We ordered the dasilog and tapsilog, both breakfast dishes. The former is fried fish and the latter is quick-​fried beef strips, both of which have a unique sweetness to them that works well. Each is served with garlic rice and fried eggs, and doused with garlic vinegar that you get from the condiment station. The names themselves are words that are built from a combination of the different items, and are used to describe the breakfast dishes. And there you have it, Filipino breakfast foods explained (poorly, I’m sure) by a white girl.
I really, really enjoyed the food. It was a hearty, filling breakfast and definitely something different, but still comfortingly breakfast-​y. I don’t even really like rice, but finished the garlic rice because it was so good. The beef and fish were juicy, well-​seasoned, and had lots of flavor.
I’d come back any time!