The Green Banana Leaf Restaurant

We had a reservation but we got inside like 30mins late. We arrived at the place an hour earlier than our time. There was an empty table but it was not offered to us. And when its our time they told us that the table for us was still occupied and we have to wait for those guests to leave the place but there was an empty table. So we don't understand why we have to wait that long to get seated.

We’ve been coming to this Filipino restaurant for years and the quality has been quite consistent over that period. Since I’ve never been to the Philippines, I can’t say for its authenticity; but I’ve eaten a lot of Filipino restaurants especially in the Filipino neighborhood in Mid-Town Wilshire area and this one does not serve fancy fusion Asian food, just standard home styled cooking which I enjoy. The Kara-Kara is excellent, pork adobo is very good and so us the pancit bihon. Recently it upgraded its chairs and looks a little better, but still this is a family or group gathering type of a restaurant. Vegetarian options: There are a small number of vegetarian dishes here, but after all this is a Filipino restaurant , which certainly is not known for vegetarian dishes. Parking: This is located in the Costco plaza, so if you steer away from its gas station area, there are plenty of parking spaces especially when two former large stores have closed a few years back.

Excellent food with warm and friendly service. Came here with my mom and grandma, ordered the fried squid, bulalao, and sisig bangus. All the dishes tasted amazing and were presented beautifully. The squid was done very well and the lemon cream dipping sauce complimented the appetizer very well.

Place was pretty good for the type of fare we got at this place. I was with several people so we got the platters 47.00 ea. For the crispy platter the highlight was the crispy pata fried pork knuckles. Meat was tender and moist from the melted collagen. The rest were the usual deep fried staples. Lechon kawaii pork belly was firm and crisp. The fried chicken was kind of dry bit still ok. The BBQ platter was in general pretty good. They were all shared the sweet sugar seasoning and grilled to have some caramelized surfaces on the meat, but not enough to be burnt. We ordered the sinigang na hipon 14.99 vinegar soup with shrimp. It was perfect for cleansing our palate after eating the sticky and rich platters. Shrimp was boiled just right, as we as the veg. This I would suggest getting. Pancit canton 12.00 was excellent, the best I ever had. It had wok hei and was not soggy like most pancit canton I had. I believe the gravy that usually accompanies this dish was fried in during cooking. Exceptional. The pork sisig 12.99 was fine. I had a few things to pick about it. There was no or little black pepper present; it did plenty of red and green peppers on the plus side. They could dial down on the vinegar too. The most important that this restaurant And most other do is to cook then ingredients more to make the collagen in the ears to dissolve the recipe into a sticky gelatinous mess. Cooking these items took a while. I say about 30 min for the amount of food we had. We tries taking items to go before the closing time of 8 pm on Monday, but the say they could do them even halo halo. Disappointing. In short the sinigang and the pancit canton are must haves. Crispy pata is great too. Just the service was kind of lacking.

Takes too long to serve the food but it's worth the wait. Kare-kare was good. The crispy fried chicken and their own sauce was yummy. Halo-halo was average. We bring family and friends to this place to let them taste the food and they liked it. Plus the price was reasonable. The place was a little bit small for a big family gathering

It’s my to-go to Filipino restaurant. I always order their sweet and sour fish, crispy pata kare kare and grilled squid. Sometimes it takes a while to get your food on the table when the place is busy. But the food makes it worth the wait.

I had the fried chicken with steamed rice, beef nilaga soup, and sinigang na bangus. Service was average. Prices are quite competitive. I love their halo - halo! It was big and tasty!

Food is delicious and affordable. The Fried Kare Kare is so good. The bulalo I ordered is extraordinary and the fried pompano was very well grilled. It took an hour for my order to be ready. The wait at the end is well worth it. If ever you are in Chino Hills or close to the area and are craving for Filipino food, this is the place to be for a take out or dine in.

Filipino restaurant in chino hills , place is very clean and open with plenty of free parking . Every time I come here yes the food takes a while to be served, be prepared to wait for a bit . It's not one of those places they have a bunch of things ready and they scoop up the food that's been sitting around for hours . So not sure if we had a new server, but she had no clue on what seafood came with the seafood platter . But hopefully she's just learning , they did however forget the soup that came with the lunch portion . And last I hope this does not happen often , but my cousin paid in cash and they had no change so they gave $60 plus in $1 bills . I felt bad cause I know she didn't want that bulk of $1 bills . So I switched it out for her and I took the $1 bills. Hopefully next time they have change prepared .

A very elegant Filipino restaurant. Nice atmosphere & the Sinigang and Arroz Caldo was delicious. The Sinigang was more on the sour side though. Their Thai tea with boba was good too, but it tasted more like a banana laffy taffy-- which was still delicious. It was really busy when we arrived and wished there was a sign telling us to sign in because there wasn't a host. Other than that, service was great and food was delicious.