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Growing up in California, Paolo Dungca never saw Filipino food in an upscale setting. If anything, the restaurants he encountered when he moved from the Philippines to the US at age 13 were mom and pop shops serving "ugly but delicious" dishes, often scooped behind a counter. But over the span of his cooking career,