After Filipino cuisine, the next food group we consumed most was Chinese. Mind you, in Manila's Chinese restaurants, nobody would know what egg foo young, chow mein or the chicken dish named after some Chinese general are!
Some of those roasted items ended up in this cold cuts dish. The noodle-like item in the middle was jellyfish, by the way.
Peking duck. The prized part is the crispy, flavourful skin. The meat is second fiddle.
Put a slice (or two) of duck on the thin steamed bread. Add some fresh scallions and hoisin sauce. Wrap it up and chow down!
The fishes had to be fresh or else....
...the steamed lapu lapu (grouper) would not taste as good.
Spicy crab.
Spicy garlic fish fillets in a clay pot.
And the hands down winner for dessert among the kids was the buchi--glutinous rice balls with sesame seeds outside and sweet bean paste inside.
OK, I admit...my daughter liked this one too. (Chocolate inside!) :-)
We were also fortunate to eat some very good tonkatsu--Japanese breaded pork chop.
The best tonkatsu outside of Japan could be had at the Ginza Bairin...a branch of the original Ginza Bairin in Ginza, Tokyo! I kid you not.
It was not difficult to find little bits of Japan in Manila. :-)
I was especially elated to find Mochi Cream! This got popular in Japan after we had already moved to Halifax. Now, I found it Manila! Mochi cream is o-mochi (pounded sticky rice) with ice cream inside.
At the Todd English Food Hall: "Never trust a round pizza." Catchy but really? I'd assume heat would spread more uniformly (and thus cook more evenly) on a round object rather than on a quadrilateral with four pesky corners. :-) Any thermodynamic physicists out there?
But food there was great....like this seared tuna.
I had a hamburger...with bacon! Sort of missed Halifax after all that Asian food. :-)
Oh, we had lots of crêpes!
Special ones too! (This one from Café Breton.)
...and Taiwanese bubble tea.
I finish this post with a little foodie humour. :-)
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