Pancake House's Halo Halo, a truly Pinoy delicacy that most people love, except actor-crooner Harry Connick, Jr. who dished out a hilarious spiel during his last concert at the PICC.
BREAKING THE TEDIUM – A PEEK INTO THE MANILA FOOD SCENE
As another excuse to veer away from the tedious documentation of my “journey”, here’s a post that showcases Manila food scene as a response to some emails saying, and I quote, “Is it rather ironic for you to live in vibrant Manila and not have any features on it? It would be a waste to highlight the other beautiful cities in Asia, except the Philippines.”
This blogsite has several features on different places in the Philippines. But this site was basically put up to document my travels, not as a travel feature blogsite. And when I am in the country, I rarely carry a camera, if at all. Nevertheless, I’ve set aside a full week documenting my gastronomic encounters for the sake of, errr… completion. For the most part, it feels odd to be carrying a camera in my home town. I am not a photographer, thus the camera is not a part of my daily appendage. But hey, this post is for those friendly emails looking for local food. You crazy people! (Especially for Minnie and delasoul)
Herewith is a week's worth of my gastronomic encounters. Bon appetit!
Asian Salad, Pancake House, regular serving PhP168 ($3.65), a mix of shrimps, tofu, pomelo, lettuce, turnip (singkamas), cucumber, coriander leaves with Asian vinaigrette.
Adobo Sulipan, loosely shredded pork and chicken with hard boiled egg and pickled water spinach (kangkong), PhP188 ($4) at Pancake House. House Iced Tea at PhP48 ($1.05).
Chicken Tonkatsu, Tropical Hut, PhP69 ($1.50)
Lechon manok (Roast chicken) at PhP150 ($3.25) a piece
Tofu anyone?
A good friend's mom who lives in good ole London would come home for a visit every 5 years or so, and she would go straight to Chowking for their pansit. Though Chowking may have sanitary issues of late, I would think that most of their mall branches would still be safe and worthy of a patronage. Just check out their Sweet and Sour Pork Lauriat below.
Sweet and Sour Pork Lauriat, PhP115 ($2.50)
The following photos are taken from a new place called Slice n Dice Steakhouse (Mandaluyong City), located along Shaw Boulevard, just beside Cherry Foodarama and Wack Wack Road Extension. It's a relatively small place with cool interiors and a very limited parking space in front. Just across the street is one of the hundreds of incarnations of Starbucks. The good thing is that this place boasts of succulent and delicious food and at an equally inexpensive price. House Iced Tea is PhP33, add PhP10 for bottomless. Extra rice of PhP17 and garlic rice of PhP24.
Pork Sisig with egg (the big order), PhP139 ($3)
Stir fried water spinach (kangkong), medium order with rice, PhP69 ($1.50). I am not a vegetable person, but boy, oh boy, this dish is heavenly!
Cheesy Garlic Mussels, the big order, PhP139 ($3) 20 pieces. As good as it looks.
Here are the comparative charts of the country share 1 month, 2 weeks and a few days ago:
This is the Eye in the Sky!
Up next: Images of Manila!Up next part 2: Food Trip in DavaoComing Soon: The Journey Continues: Off to Savannakhet, Laos
