Montana will surprise you more often than not. Here is a case in point. According to the 2020 census, Colstrip supports a population of 2,096. Given that, the population of Pacific Islanders lands somewhere in the single digits. Even so, the small town of Colstrip has a Philippine restaurant named “Mabuhay,” a word meaning “welcome” in Tagalog, the national language of the Philippines.
Naturally, upon discovering a place with Philippine
Cuisine in Colstrip (something we don’t even have in much larger Helena),
Desiree and I were compelled to have dinner there. Upon arriving at Mabuhay,
Desiree discovered that the restaurant owner hailed from Cebu, a city on an
island next to the one from which she came.
Mabuhay proved to be clean and filled with
sunshine. We enjoyed our meal, and Desiree was able to chat with the owner in
both Tagalog and Bisaya. Good stuff, that.
Below are two photographs from our visit to
Mabuhay.
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—Mitchell Hegman
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