. >> we try to cook food that you don't normally find from food vendors like the lichon for example.kars to come up with to perfect, to get the skin just right, the flavor and it's one of our most popular dishes, and people love it. this it's to chase a dream that i had for a long time.when i got tired of the corporate world, i decided that i wanted to give it try and see if people would actually like our food. i think it's a wonderful opportunity for the filipino cultshine. everybody keeps saying filipino food is the next big thing. it's already big, and to have all of us here together, it's just -- it just blows my mind sometimes t there's so many of us bringing -- bringing filipin food to the city >> i'm alex the owner of the lumpia company. the food that i create isfilipino-american experience. i wasn't a chef to start literally love lumpia, but my food is my favorite foods i like to eat, put into my favorite filipino foods, put together. it's not based off of recipes i learned from my mom. maybe i learned the rolling the different things that i put in are just the different i lik