This time round, I made it a point to try out some of the Chinese cooking in Manila. Some were surprisingly quite good, while others disappointed.
Stewed chicken feet
Fried radish cakes Chicken dumpling noodles
Stewed curry beef brisket noodles
One of the better ones was North Park Next Door Noodles Restaurant on Makati Avenue. Needless to say, the noodle dishes were quite good. They even have a choice of different types of noodles such as Hong Kong noodles, Canton noodles, etc. The dim sum was also not too bad and the surprise was the char siew pao. The size of the pao was like that of your palm. Huge. And it is served with a small dish of char siew gravy, which I found out is the norm in Manila.
Sweet & Sour Fish Fillet
Curry Chicken Hot Pot Hot Shrimp Fruit Salad
We tried the Cifu Restaurant in Malate for dinner one evening. This was quite a disappointment. The only dish we found quite tasty was the Sweet & Sour Fish Fillet. The gravy was tangy and not too sweet and very appetizing. The other dishes we ordered turned out really bad. The curry chicken hot pot was just chicken cuts cooked in a gooey brown starch. Not spicy and very bland. The hot shrimp salad was worse. There was so much mayonnaise that you could not even see what you were eating.
Shabu Shabu Set for 2 persons
Pork Asado Pao Fried Cuapao
At David's Tea House along Makati Avenue, we tried the Shabu Shabu. It turned out to be quite good. Good value for money. For 680 pesos, we got a combination of chicken soup and satay soup, with a huge plate of wagyu beef, meat balls, sotong balls, sea cucumber, beancurd skin, toufu, fresh prawns, chicken meat, tanghoon and vegetables enough for 2 persons. Especially good was the Fried Cuapao which were actually deep fried mantou. Had a wonderful lunch.
3 comments:
Dear Sir,
We are sorry about your unfortunate experience at our restaurant Cifu Asian. We actually appreciate this feedback which we took seriously. We immediately took corrective action on the hot prawn salad and realized our Food prep did not comply with the right portioning of the mayo blend.
We thank you for bringing this to our attention for our own improvement.
We hope you could visit us again so we could make it up to you and give you a much better dining experience.
-Cifu Management-
Dear Sir,
Regarding the curry chicken, after further investigation, we found out that there was too much milk which drowned the flavor of curry. Our kitchen didn't comply with our own cooking standards.
Again, allow us to apologize for this unfortunate experience. Your feedback was very valuable and this allowed us to bring our kitchen back to standards.
We hope you could visit us again. Please feel free to call 09228518751 Cherry or 7311599 and let us know where we could contact you so we can send you something to compensate for your dissatisfaction.
Again, thank you and we are sorry.
-Cifu Asian Cooking-
Dear Cifu Asian Cooking, I appreciate that you took my comments positively. I will look forward to visiting your restaurant again, the next time I am in Manila, and will review the food once more. Thanks for reading my blog.
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