Fil-Am cuisine has some of the best pork BBQ skewers around.
Fil-Am Cuisine is located in Daly City (map). There’s also a second location in South San Francisco, but the Daly City one is the original. If you have to pick between the two, I’d say go for the one in Daly City. It’s to-go only, but you really get to see them cooking a bunch of skewers.
My partner and I go here mainly for the pork bbq skewers. They also have chicken bbq skewers and other Filipino food, but their main claim-to-fame is their barbecue.
They make a ton of skewers, and I mean a ton. I really need to see if I have a photo of their ceiling because it is dark with the amount of smoke that’s caked up there from barbecuing so much.
Anyhoo, like I said, my partner and I go here a bunch for their barbecue. I think it was originally recommended to us by my mom, who got it recommended through my cousin.
Other places in the Bay to get pork bbq skewers? There’s Seafood City in Milpitas, but I feel like they run out of their pork skewers way too fast (whereas Fil-Am just constantly makes more. They’ve only run out once on me.). You can also check out Isla Restaurant, but that’s a sit-down place.
Prices
| Date | Pork skewers |
|---|---|
| July 2026 | $4.25 |
| March 2026 | $3.99 |
| March 2023 | $3.40 |
Catering
Got some catering for Lola Lucy’s birthday on 2026-07-11. Add buffer time. We ordered like 60 skewers for a noon pickup on a Saturday, and got it I think over an hour later. This was actually fine with us because we the party wasn’t until 4pm, but other people were also waiting for catering and scheduled the pickup too close to their party’s start time. They were less pleased.
When they were making our order, they actually had to post a sign saying something like: “no skewers for an hour” for walk-ins.
Catering orders are basically written down on pieces of paper, so you need to check in with them. Unless it’s like pancit, they may not have, like, skewers ready to go.
That being said, the pork skewers were a crowd favorite at Lola Lucy’s birthday party! I heard people liked it more than the lechon.