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Book cover of 'AMBOY' with a person wearing an apron and text about Filipino-American cuisine.
Table of contents, positioned over a photograph of a person with sunglasses holding a piece of food.
2 page book layout with text and a photo of a person wearing a chef's coat.
Bread-making process with images of dough and bread, accompanied by text on a recipe.
Glass bowl filled with fried spring rolls on a gray surface, with text on the right side.
Fried fish shakshuka-style dish with recipe text on a magazine page.
Book cover of 'AMBOY' with a person wearing an apron and text about Filipino-American cuisine.
Table of contents, positioned over a photograph of a person with sunglasses holding a piece of food.
2 page book layout with text and a photo of a person wearing a chef's coat.
Bread-making process with images of dough and bread, accompanied by text on a recipe.
Glass bowl filled with fried spring rolls on a gray surface, with text on the right side.
Fried fish shakshuka-style dish with recipe text on a magazine page.

Amboy: Recipes from the Filipino-American Dream

$ 35.00 USD

Hardcover, 352 pages, 7.94 x 10 inches.

Filipino recipes from the the creator of the legendary Eggslut in LA, host of the hit online series The Burger Show, and the most prominent Filipino chef in the US.

Alvin Cailan has risen to become arguably the most high-profile chef in America's Filipino food movement. He took the food scene by storm when he opened the now-legendary Eggslut in Los Angeles, a foodie cult favorite specializing in affordable but sophisticated egg sandwiches. Alvin also hosts the popular The Burger Show on First We Feast's YouTube channel, with many episodes exceeding 1 million views and guests such as Seth Rogen and Padma Lakshmi. Alvin's story of success, however, is an unlikely one. He emerged from his youth spent as part of an immigrant family in East LA feeling like he wasn't Filipino enough to be Filipino and not American enough to be an American, thus amboy, the term for a Filipino raised in America. He had to first overcome cultural traditions and family expectations to find his own path to success, and this unique cookbook tells that story through his recipes.

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