Our Filipino Aunties The Antitas Picked Everything We Ate at Seafood City Scarborough in Toronto — Here’s How It Went!
You’ve seen the Seafood City food court reviews. You’ve seen the Filipino grocery hauls. This isn’t that.
In the latest episode of The Ants, hosts Mikey and Marian handed the entire grocery run to two Filipino aunties, The Antitas — Antita Nova and Antita Pau, founders of Likha Filipino Cultural Hub — and let them take over Seafood City Supermarket on Lebovic Ave in Scarborough, Toronto. They picked every snack, chose every item from the food court, and rated it all out of five ants. The hosts never stood a chance.
The Grocery Run
The Aunts ran the aisles like it was their own kitchen. The snack aisle turned into a nostalgia trip — Clover Chips, Chippy (red bag only, the barbecue, don’t even bring up the blue one), knick-knacks, flat tops. Tita Nova used to sell Clover Bits in her classroom for pocket money. When funds got tight in university for Tita Pau, Chippy became dinner — fried with rice, made into adobo, whatever it took. Every product had a story.
They hit the seafood counter, the bakery for pandesal and ube cake, and loaded up the cart before anyone could argue. Then came the food court.
The Ratings
Grill City barbecue skewers — five out of five, unanimous. Marian called it the best Filipino barbecue in Toronto. The chicken skin from Crispy Town broke the scale entirely — Tita Pau gave it a six, seven with garlic rice. The tapa? That’s where The Antitas drew the line. “My tapa tastes better than this,” Tita Pau said, sparking a Tapa War cook-off challenge for a future episode.
The biggest surprise: they agreed on almost everything. “Tita or not Tita — we’re all Filipinos with the same experience. We miss the same stuff.”
What the Aunts Are Building
Between shopping and scoring, the Aunts talked about Likha — a cultural hub founded by three Filipino moms preserving Filipino arts, language, and community in the GTA. Their biggest project yet is the inaugural Manlilikha Arts and Music Festival on August 29th in Markham, headlined by Apo Hiking Society with Leah Navarro, Kitchen Crew, and Pantayo. Daytime programming includes hilot, Arnis, film screenings, poetry, and ukay-ukay. All proceeds support earthquake relief in Mindanao through Art Relief Mobile Kitchen.
Manlilikha Arts and Music Festival
Saturday, August 29, 2026 · People’s Theatre for the Performing Arts, 22 Esna Park Dr., Markham
Daytime: 10:30 AM – 4:30 PM ($20) · Evening concert: 5:30 PM
Tickets: zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/manlilikha-arts-festival
Learn more about Likha: likha.ca · @likhaculturalhub
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