Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Los Angeles Times

    Filipino Americans hope for more recognition with new arch in LA's Historic Filipinotown

    LOS ANGELES — People come to Little Ongpin from as far as Las Vegas for lumpia, steamed pork buns, beef caldereta and other Filipino specialties. But few of these loyal customers know that the restaurant is on the edge of a neighborhood called Historic Filipinotown. "We have Koreatown, Chinatown, Little Tokyo, but in Filipinotown, nothing," Beth Villago, whose mother opened the restaurant in ...
    by Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times Mar 07, 2022 6 minutes
    A metal sculpture, that symbolizes community, is one of several attached to street lights in Historic Filipinotown in Los Angeles on Jan. 14, 2022.

    LOS ANGELES — People come to Little Ongpin from as far as Las Vegas for lumpia, steamed pork buns, beef caldereta and other Filipino specialties.

    But few of these loyal customers know that the restaurant is on the edge of a neighborhood called Historic Filipinotown.

    "We have Koreatown, Chinatown, Little Tokyo, but in Filipinotown, nothing," Beth Villago, whose mother opened the restaurant in 1980, said as she rang up meals and fielded phone orders.

    That may soon change with the construction of an arch spanning Beverly Boulevard near the 1st Street Bridge, its foundation inlaid with oyster shell windows in a nod to a common feature of traditional homes in the Philippines.

    Filipino Americans are one of the largest Asian American groups in California, with 1.2 million residents, about half of whom call Greater Los Angeles home.

    But they have never had the visibility of Chinese, Japanese or Koreans, whose distinctive neighborhoods and widespread culinary influence are long established.

    Historic Filipinotown is easy

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from Los Angeles Times

    Los Angeles Times7 min read
    Indie Creatures To The Core, David And Nathan Zellner Cut Their Own Path Through The Wild
    A family makes their way through a woodland forest, eventually stopping to set up camp. They have something to eat, go to sleep and then get up to do it all over again. Except this isn't a family on a wilderness getaway. It's a group of shaggy, mythi
    Los Angeles Times7 min read
    In Ukraine's Old Imperial City, Pastel Palaces Are In Jeopardy, But Black Humor Survives
    ODESA, Ukraine — On a cool spring morning, as water-washed light bathed pastel palaces in the old imperial city of Odesa, the thunder of yet another Russian missile strike filled the air. That March 6 blast came within a few hundred yards of a convoy
    Los Angeles Times2 min read
    Kendrick Lamar Responds To Drake In New Diss Track 'Euphoria'
    LOS ANGELES — Kendrick Lamar is having his say. Again. A week and a half after Drake dropped two songs in which he insulted the Compton-born rapper — diss tracks Drake released after Lamar attacked him last month in the song "Like That" — Lamar retur

    Related