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The Silog Guide: Filipino Breakfast in Dubai From 8 AM
Garlic fried rice, a fried egg, and the protein that gives each plate its name. Six silog sets, all served from opening at 8 in the morning until close, because breakfast should not have a curfew.
Silog is a contraction. Sinangag is garlic fried rice, itlog is egg, and the first syllable names the protein: tapa makes tapsilog, tocino makes tocilog, daing makes daingsilog. One word tells you the whole plate. It is the Filipino breakfast formula, and like all great breakfast food it is wasted if you only serve it in the morning.
The six sets on our menu
Every silog is a complete set with a drink or iced tea. Tapsilog and Daingsilog carry best-seller marks on our printed menu, and both are what the kitchen would tell you to start with.
Tapsilog
AED 31
Best seller
Daingsilog
AED 29
Best seller
Tocilog
AED 29
Longsilog
AED 31
Shangsilog
AED 29
Chicksilog
AED 29
What each name means
- Tapsilog: cured beef tapa, thin and savoury-sweet, the standard against which every silog place is judged.
- Daingsilog: butterflied dried fish, salty and crisp. The one homesick customers order.
- Tocilog: sweet cured tocino. Ours is pork-free, like everything in this kitchen.
- Longsilog: garlicky longganisa sausage.
- Shangsilog: Lumpiang Shanghai spring rolls standing in as the protein.
- Chicksilog: fried chicken over the same garlic rice and egg.
Breakfast hours that respect a worker's clock
We open at 8:00 AM every day, and the silog sets are served all day until close at 1:00 AM. Filipinos in Dubai work every shift there is, which means breakfast happens at 8 in the morning for some people and 11 at night for others. The garlic rice does not judge.
Getting it delivered
Silog travels well because the components are packed to stay separate until you open them. Delivery is free within 5 km of Al Barsha 1 and AED 5 beyond, and you pay the rider in cash or by card.