Quick Bites - Lechon Kawali and Mediterranean Salad @ Iceberg

So you don't have enough time for a chitchat but you're famished and wouldn't mind a quick bite. Try Icerberg's "Lechon Kawali", roast pork with rice and atchara and their sweetish liver sauce. Or maybe you're on a diet and would rather have their Mediterranean Salad - grapes, apples, cucumber, tomatoes and feta cheese with vinaigrette sauce. This one's from CCP Complex's Harbour Square!

Then there's North Park's Lechon Macau, a variation of the Lechon Kawali..

Yum!

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Lechon Kawali

Mediterranean Salad with feta cheese and vinaigrette sauce

While we're at it, here's North Park's Lechon Macau:

Food Trip in Phnom Penh, Saigon and Manila

Here are a few more gastronomic encounters. Just ordinary choices and servings that I was able to document along the way – from Phnom Penh, to Saigon, and finally back to Manila.

For Manila tourists who would love to try Chinese cuisine other than “Pinoy” food, the “North Park” group of restaurants (which includes Tiananmen, NP Kopitiam and Next Door) are great places for dining and cozy conversations. My favorite branches are the ones in Greenhills (easy parking away from the madding crowd) and Next Door at Greenhills Shopping Depot near Valle Verde.


Toast, 2 eggs and orange juice - $2.50 (10,330 riel) at DV8 Guesthouse, Phnom Penh

Barbecue style pork meal with rice - $0.49 or 2,000 riel at a roadside carinderia. My hired motorbike had a flat tire so my driver and I stopped at the nearest vulca shop. This was lunch in the outskirts of Phnom Penh.

Beef Loklak - a Khmer specialty found in most fast food stalls in Sorya Mall.

Pork and chicken rice meal in Sorya Mall's Food Court - $2 or 8,000 riel

Forgot the name. This was breakfast at Khmer Saravan which is famous among backpackers. there were chicken bits too. $3.50 or 14,500 riel

Fried rice with chicken - $2.40 or 40,000 dong - at a restaurant by the lake in Dam Sen Park, Saigon.

A noodle entree with mixed vegetables and assorted meat - truly delicious! - at $4.80 or 80,000 dong at a restaurant in Ben Thanh Market, Saigon

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North Park Greenhills, San Juan, Metro Manila - great atmosphere, great food...

Yang Chow Fried Rice - no viand necessary... Saigon has their own Yang Chow spelled differently.

Lechon Macau - am not sure why it's called as such. The origin of the dish perhaps. All I know is that at Chinese Restaurants, they call it "lechon macau" while the very same dish is called "lechon kawali" in Filipino restaurants. PhP165 ($3.40)

Lapu lapu (grouper) fillet with soft tofu, PhP246 ($5)

Sweet and sour, deboned tender pork spare ribs...

Salted garlic squid

Almond jelly with lychee, PhP80 ($1.60)

A flower grows out of the crevice of a temple structure in Luang Prabang, Laos - goat's meal! hehe

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