Good food. Love the turon, pork sisig and crispy pata. Good service. Helpful and nice people. Been buying food there for years especially when christmas and new year's eve.

My family and I have eaten here for each few months for years always with the best, happy satisfaction from helping a local business, supporting the Filipinno community in central NJ which isn't quite big especially compared to northern NJ, making this small township better with business, and overall enjoying this delicious genre of Asian food. The location is super prime right in the geographical center of the small borough. It's a few minutes walk from the train station, across from the new under construction municipal building, a block from the all-important Quick Chek, and has ample atypically free street parking right out front or at worst on the block save for a few Friday nights. The easy signage and frontage all help to get here easily. I joke that the worse the interior decor the better the food and here the interior decor is mostly inherited from its predecessor, a Chinese take out place, with still unchanged elements from that very many decades ago business but none of that will detract or deter from the excellent happy food coming from the kitchen in the back. The charm is that the humble decor lets the food speak loudly and it absolutely does with the hot and inviting buffet-like line. Its easy-to-spot array of happy dishes, all your favoured Filipino dishes. Also be mindful this layout is pretty much how it is wherever in the world you find your Filipino food. Likewise there're the baked goods on the shelf and table across from the cash register. As for the food itself, I can never get the dishes names well down in my head, for whichever reason, perhaps a lack of attention and labels both, but essentially I am game to try any dish. There's the sour-and-savory pork a flavor combo which is so totally addictive. The same treatment as done for a bamboo shoot-like vegetable is good since there're a great many pork dishes and few vegetable ones, though I could be simply unable to understand which dishes are what. For the kids, these are hearty nutritious entrees so no kids menu need apply. The serving ware is simple plastic carry out type with the shamelessly Kirkland Signature goods otherwise, go Costco! The humble elderly couple who run and likely own it are super charming with many local connections and years being in this location. I am a big fan of so many area Filipino ones, the nearest two being in Metuchen and Flemington, so I am so very happy Lutong continues serving happiness!

While you might pass on by if you're just driving through Raritan township, I think Lutong Bahay is a humble little Filipino restaurant where you can stop by for longsilog or tocino-silog any time of the day. I docked down a star because I think the tocino-silog was a little dry but was happy with my longsilog with two over-medium-ish eggs over fried rice. There are some seats there, so I got to enjoy my meal while in the shop. Remember to ask for vinegar to enjoy with your meal! Overall, it helped make me feel a little piece of home, being surrounded by NJ locals who speak Tagalog and also have Filipino network TV playing in the background. I wouldn't mind returning.

This place doesn't look much when you walk or drive past, but I was craving for Filipino food and thought I'd give this restaurant a try. It's a small place, friendly people, you can eat inside, not a lot of people, but it was nice to enjoy our food quietly and felt no rush to finish. The food are displayed, you pick 2 entrees with choice of white rice or garlic flavored fried rice. We also had to order some lumpia and coconut juice! They have fish too in case that's what you like. The downside mainly for me was their bathroom, it was stinky. Just being honest. If you gotta go, you gotta go! Just hold your breath in We plan to visit again esp with other businesses nearby... the market and dessert shop!!

Yoooooo. Im just visiting the area but this was an AMAZING find. It's a cafeteria style establishment; So it's quick and easy. It is WAY cheap. 7.50$ for rice and two entree options (tax already included O.O). To put that in perspective, that's cheaper than Panda Express! As a small mom and pop shop, that's amazing. And their options include 4 options of fish, some other options with shrimp, etc. these aren't exactly cheap protein options. Service was super friendly. I was asking many questions as it was my first time there and I am not too familiar with Filipino dishes. Flavor wise, I've had better, however, still very homely, comforting, and satisfying. There's a niche for quick lunches and For that price, I highly recommend you come by. I know I'll be back.

There are four Filipino places near where I live, and Lutong Bahay is my second favorite. My favorite place in Flemington wins out in flavor, but this place has more selection and gives out larger portions. Takeout is $6.50 for rice and two choices. The first time I came, I tried their beef skewer and this pork stew with carrots and other vegetables. The beef skewer was tough, but had great flavor. The pork stew was likewise tasty. The second time I tried the longanisa and chicken curry. It looks like they coat the longanisa in this sweet sauce, but it still tastes like normal delicious longanisa. The chicken curry tastes like Thai green curry, but less sweet. Their whole roasted eggplant was a bit bland, but I liked the texture of it. I've also tried a couple of the desserts and snacks they sell. We got the turon once thinking they were regular lumpia. To our surprise there were plantains inside instead. After getting over the initial shock, I quite liked it. Their sweets come from this place called Berkeley Bakery. I think I like the sweets, especially the hopia baboy, from Christine's Bakery better (which the one in Flemington sells), but these were still good. Make sure you get the purple yam sticky rice ball. It's incredibly delicious and not too sweet. I liked the texture of it because it's stickier than a regular rice ball, but not as sticky as a rice cake. They get the kutsinta from two different bakeries. This was my first time having kutsinta. It tastes like a coconut rice cake with shredded coconut on top. Their cassava cake is also absolutely delicious. It somehow still remains soft even when refrigerated. Everything is really cheap. It was approximately, $15 for the purple yam rice ball, kutsinta, hopia baboy, roasted eggplant, and rice combo with 2 sides. This place is extremely close to the Raritan train station, so I can go here whenever I get off the train and go to the one in Flemington the next day. Unfortunately, they didn't have laing the day I went, but the person helping us said the sometimes have it on Sundays.