Pinoy Cravings is a Filipino restaurant at 286 Mount Wellington Highway, near Japan Mart on Sylvia Park Road in Park Avenue, Lower Hutt, with a 2.6 rating on Google.
Filipino cooking is built on a few big flavours: vinegar and soy braised into adobo, the tamarind sourness of sinigang, peanut-thick kare-kare, pancit noodles for celebrations. Dishes come family-style with mounds of steamed rice, meant for sharing, and a good kitchen will set out sawsawan — vinegary chilli and soy dips — to sharpen each bite. Many Filipino restaurants run turo-turo style, with the day's food kept warm behind a counter you simply point at, so it never hurts to ask what was cooked that morning. Regulars order one sour soup, one rich stew and extra rice.
For a taste of adobo or sinigang in Lower Hutt, Pinoy Cravings sits on Mount Wellington Highway near Sylvia Park Road.