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After a pandemic-extended delay, chef Phillip Esteban’s White Rice food stall at Liberty Public Market in Point Loma will open June 12.
White Rice will specialize in rice bowls based on the traditional Filipino dishes Esteban grew up on. The business was born last year after the pandemic forced the shutdown of his corporate catering company. In its place, he launched a meal prep and delivery service that specialized in Filipino rice bowls. Business was so good that when an opportunity came up at Liberty Station, he decided to turn his temporary business into a permanent one.
White Rice is fashioned after a Filipino “sari-sari,” or corner bodega, with rice bowls that feature lechon kawali (crispy pork belly), pinoy BBQ, mushroom-and-tofu sisig, and Filipino spaghetti with hot dog Bolognese. Side dishes include lumpia (spring rolls) and ube pandesal, a traditional Filipino roll made with purple yam.
A chirashi rice bowl topped with miso marinated black cod, and more
Masks on, because I’m pretty sure this is what the CDC was talking about when it said vaccinated people could uncover in public spaces,
except in crowded settings. It’s Saturday afternoon, and Liberty Station is looking fairly close to normal: parking lots close to full, traffic building to get in or out, and people everywhere.
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2820 Historic Decatur Road, San Diego
Especially in and around the Liberty Public Market. Packing a collection of food vendors under one roof didn’t create the most conducive environment for a pandemic, and I witnessed some pretty thin attendance here over the course of last year. But now, on a sunny Saturday, its halls are teeming, hungry eyes peering out over every masked face, in search of tables opening up on either of the Market’s two dining patios.
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