Restaurants
By sanju on 19 April, 2013
I was quite saddened some months ago to hear that one of my favorite Japanese restaurants Sushi Kappo Kobiki-Cho had shut down. The owners of the place had decided to transform it from a sushi bar to a slightly more affordable venue that features a broader spectrum, now called Rikuseki An. (A Place of …read »
Restaurants
By Anonymous Paul on 15 April, 2013
Pansit Batil Patung. Sounds so exotic. To me at least. But it’s a popular dish up in Tuguegarao and I have only recently understood why. It’s primarily made of miki noodles cooked in this richly flavoured brown stock, piled with ground carabeef (carabao meat), chopped liver and crowned with a sunny side up. Here at …read »
Restaurants
By Anonymous Paul on 12 March, 2013
Go-en may have seemed to have gotten on two bandwagons by merging a couple of current food trends; that being the ramen and the burger to create…the ramen burger. Essentially its a deconstructed and reconstructed shoyu ramen. Inside two pan fried noodle buns are slices of tender pork chasu, scallions and a thickened shoyu broth. …read »
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By Anonymous Paul on 26 February, 2013
There was a time when Taiwanese style beef noodles seemed to be the dish du jour. And it was Suzhou’s and Mien San’s versions I liked best, and still do today. Maybe including Khanzu’s in the present list as well. But I haven’t been to Mien San in a while. I really would like to go …read »
Restaurants
By Anonymous Paul on 18 February, 2013
The children’s birthday parties I remember going to didn’t quite require having carousels in professionally decorated hotel ballrooms. Kids went to each other’s houses to play, hit a clay pot with a stick or jump and grab gold (chocolate) coins off a pabitin. Red hotdogs on skewers with marshmallows were de rigueur. And if you …read »
Restaurants
By Kitchyart on 14 February, 2013
There are just those nights that no matter how drunk you feel, you just want to sort of balance things out by having a healthier alternative to fast food. Or, you know that it’s too late to go home and another hour dedicated to eating won’t matter as much anymore. Donu is a fateful discovery …read »