Senor Sisig

Senor Sisig is a very well known food truck around San Francisco, one of the early pioneers in the now vibrant food truck scene.  The concept is fusion, in a very San Francisco way: fusion burritos.  The main influence however is Filipino street food, which makes it a unique offering.

"A DELICIOUSLY NEW EVOLUTION IN FILIPINO STREET FOOD. FROM ORIGINAL FAMILY RECIPES MADE SAN FRANCISCO STYLE."

The story behind it is exactly the cute kind of success story that makes you smile - two friends bought a food truck on Craigslist, one of them is a chef who grew up eating sisig, and they started a concept all around it, filling burritos and tacos with it.  They added chicken and tofu versions as well, to appeal to the masses.  Let's just say, SF was ready for a novel approach to tacos and burritos, and it took off.  They now have a fleet of 4 trucks, and two physical stores.

"IT'S NOT ASIAN, IT'S NOT MEXICAN, IT'S SEÑOR SISIG" - GUY FIERI, FOOD NETWORK

Yeah, yeah, I just quoted Guy Fieri on my blog.  The menu has stayed true to the original roots, with several varitions on sisig, served in the form of tacos, burritos, rice bowls, salad, nachos, or fries.

Food Truck

The location I visited was a food truck, but one with a permanent home, at Spark Social.

Senor Sisig is located in the back side of Spark Social, well past all the other trucks, but, the folks seek it out.  While other trucks had lines too, Senor Sisig definitely had a steady flow, all afternoon long. It is clearly one of the most popular businesses.

Ube Coconut Alfajores. $3.

"Sweet filling spread between two South American shortbread cookies (flavor availability varies)."

I had eyes for one thing at Senor Sisig, and it wasn't any of their very popular burritos.  Nope, I was there for dessert, and in particular, for a cookie.  Yup, me, for a cookie.  You see, they had ube cookies, and, while I'm not usually huge on alfajores, I had these described as being more like polvoron than real shortbreads, and thus, I was definitely interested.

This was good.  The cookie was indeed soft, much like a polvoron, and actually quite strong ube flavor. Lightly sweet, buttery, and it crumbled well.  A nice cookie, really.  And then, the filling.  It was not traditional caramel that you find in an alfajores, but rather, it too was ube flavored.  Sweet, and it had the consistency of caramel, a slight pull to it.  Basically, well, ube caramel.  It was all rolled in coconut flakes.

Each component was nicely done, and it definitely worked together well.  A nice, actually ube forward, treat.

****.

Chile Lime Peanuts. $4.

As a grab-n-go snack, Senor Sisig has housemade flavored peanuts, available in both garlic and chile lime.  I had seen people rave about these, so, totally as an impulse buy, I grabbed an order of these too.

The nuts were, well, nuts.  Peanuts, skin on.  They were reasonably well coated in a bit of seasoning.  It wasn't particularly spicy, but, the touch of acid from the lime was a nice touch.  Tasty enough to nibble on, and more interesting than plain roasted peanuts, but I wouldn't really go out of my way to get them.  $4 for the full container was a very reasonable price.  ***.