Kona’s Rhoda Magbitang wins ‘Top Chef’ with Filipino dish

Kona’s Rhoda Magbitang wins ‘Top Chef’ with Filipino dish

At 17, Rhoda Magbitang arrived in California from her native Philippines. A quarter-century later after countless hours logged in some of the nation’s finest commercial kitchens, she has truly arrived — as an embodiment of the American dream. “You know, coming here with basically nothing, if you just apply yourself and just work really hard — I mean, that’s such an oversimplification, it’s almost criminal to say it like that. But it’s true,” Mag…