These are for places in Manila. I will update this list as I discover more places and products.
New (11/8/12)
Favorite Noodles - Seafood Ho Fan in Pumpkin Sauce at Modern China
Favorite Roast Duck - Annapolis Seafood Palace
Favorite Chinese Dessert - Haw Flakes Pastry at Chow Fun Modern Chinese Bistro
Haw Flakes Pastry
Favorite Sweet & Sour Pork - Summer Palace, Edsa Shangri-la Hotel (it's really the best I've eaten anywhere! if it's not crunchy complain to Nancy and she'll have it changed)
sweet & sour pork
New (4/18/11)
Favorite Fried Rice - Feng Wei Wee's Taiwan Fried Rice (closed), Century Seafood's Crab & Sausage Rice, Century Seafood's Special Fried Rice, Jasmine's Seafood Fried Rice. (I can't decide which I love best. They're all scrumptious!)
New! (2/6/11)
Favorite Private Kitchen - Mama's Table (Baguio)
Favorite Veggie dish/Tofu - Tofu Polunchay from Choi Palace and Choi Garden
Favorite Duck dish - Shredded Duck w/ Black Pepper Sauce from Choi Palace
Favorite Filipino Dish - Seafood Kare Kare from Kanin Club
Favorite Chinese restaurant - Choi Garden
Choi's lobster in superior sauce
Favorite Italian restaurant - C' Italian Dining (high end) and Amici (low end)
C's risotto kristina
Favorite Filipino restaurant - Kanin Club, C2 (primarily for their boneless crispy pata kare kare)
C2's boneless crispy pata kare kare
Favorite French restaurant - Aubergine
Favorite Japanese restaurant - Inagiku
Favorite Korean restaurant - Yedang
Favorite Persian restaurant - Arya
Favorite Spanish restaurant - El Cirkulo
Favorite Thai restaurant - it's a tie between AzuThai and Benjarong
Favorite restaurant - Antonio's
Antonio's grilled beef fillet, gratinated w/ wild mushroom, mashed potato
Favorite Hot Pot place - Choi Garden
Favorite siopao - Emerald Garden's taipao
Emerald Garden's giant taipao
Favorite burger - hands down it's Chili's burgers
Chili's mushroom swiss burger
Favorite pizza - La Nuova, California Pizza Kitchen (really!)
La Nuova's maremmana rustica - onions, Italian sausage
La Nuova's pizza due gusti - chorizo, spinach and mushroom
Favorite potato chips - Red Rock Deli sour cream & chili potato chips
Favorite dessert (take home) - Arny ♥ Dading's Peachy Peachy
Favorite chocolate cake - Nono's Oblivion from Classic Confections
Favorite chocolate dessert - Bizu's chocolate souffle
Bizu's chocolate souffle
Favorite leche flan - Estrelle's
Favorite apple pie - Sugarhouse's French apple pie
Sugarhouse's French apple pie
Favorite cheesecake - Dessert du Jour's queso de bola cheesecake
Favorite sans rival - Gay Vasquez's sans rival
Favorite frozen dessert - Lugang Cafe's shaved peanut butter ice
shaved black sesame & peanut butter ice
Favorite taho - Tofu store
Favorite condiment - Becky's Kitchen's crunchy chili garlic, Alavar's bagoong gata
Favorite Peking duck - Peking Garden
Favorite soup - Cicou's prawn bisque w/ sea urchin flan, Century Seafood's buddha jumps over the wall soup
Century Seafood's buddha jumps over the wall soup
Favorite foie gras - Je Suis Gourmand
Je Suis Gourmand's foie gras salad
I hope this list can help you find your own favorites.What are your favorites? Share them with me on the comments section below.
FOB
ReplyDeletethat kind of favorites is so costly but worth it :)
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ReplyDeletehave you been to the aristocrat?? on roxas blvd
ReplyDeleteWhat's the taste of Lugang Cafe's shaved peanut butter ice?!?!?!?!? im so curious with it's taste =)
ReplyDeleteImagine Jif peanut butter frozen!! Yum!!!
Deletesky high used to have poli rice (black fried rice) it was really good. shame they closed shop. dragon gate is the offshoot but their version of the fried rice isn't as superb.
ReplyDeleteYes Chilis does have good burgers, but there's one little small shop in Xavierville that I think is a contender for one of the best burgers in Manila: Boulevard Diner :) Try searching "Boulevard Diner Katipunan" in Google :)
ReplyDeleteHow about favorite buffet and favorite crepe? Crepe for me would go to Cafe Breton and buffet would go to ummm too many to mention
ReplyDeleteYeh I like Cafe Breton's savory crepes as well as La Creperie.
DeleteI just got back from Living in the Philippines in Cebu for 3 months, and I liked the food such as fried pork called Adobo and the abundance of all kinds of fish at the wet markets. When you get off the beaten path in Cebu and go down the side lanes were the locals live with the narrow streets lined with little shops setup in front of their small homes and the kinds of foods you can see is something to remember and to see for your self. What I can remember is pork, pork and rice seems to be a staple in the Philippines. When I was there I met a wonderful lady and we are now to be married and she is coming to America with me, but that is another story but if you want to read about it just comment and I will write about how I found love in Cebu. But back to food and a bit about my wife to be it was her birthday last July in Cebu and what to get her so I asked her and she said she wanted a whole roasted baboy, thats a whole pig for us westerners. So she and I went to the pig market picked out a live pig and brought it back home. Then her uncle dispatched the pig rite there in front of the house in the street and made a fire and cooked it whole on on a stick there on the sidewalk. And this was not in the country but a city street. There is one more food I will never forget and that is called baloot and is a fertilized duck egg steamed in the shell and eaten with a spicy vinegar,even my wife to be who is Filipino would not eat it.
ReplyDeletePS Please see my blog I also wrote more about the Philippines
Thanks for sharing your experience with us.
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