Your Banana Q

That fresh-looking combination of fish, tomatoes and spinach at Nanay Gloria’s is the Filipino dish sinigang. The soupy mixture, meant to be eaten with rice, is made with either swordfish or halibut and lightly soured with tamarind. This downtown Philippine fast-food outlet also has a light rendition of the noodle dish pancit, containing miki (egg noodles) and sotanghon (bean threads) along with cabbage, carrots and celery. You can pick what you’d like from the steam table. You’ll probably leave with at least one banana Q, a skewer of banana chunks in a syrupy brown sugar coating.

Sinigang, $4 a pint; pancit, $2.50 for two large servings (other sizes available); banana Q, $1.25 each; at Nanay Gloria’s, 2432 W. Temple St., Los Angeles. (213) 387-7114.