Restaurant Review: World Chicken

https://www.instagram.com/p/B2I3E31HFQn/ Address: Food Express, Third Floor, Gateway Mall, Araneta Center, Cubao, Quezon City Date visited: March 2019 The Taste 5/5 Their menu has a mix and match type of set-up and this is one of our favorite combinations: Classic Chicken with Ranch BBQ sauce with Japanese fried rice and Macaroni salad on the side. The chicken...

Restaurant Review: Icebergs

https://www.instagram.com/p/B11EU6yHUAv/ https://www.instagram.com/p/B11ErU7HZfL/ https://www.instagram.com/p/B11FO49HGXz/ Address: Landsdale Arcade, Timog Avenue, Paligsahan, Quezon City Date visited: January 2019 The Taste 5/5 Their version of sisig is one of our favorites. We think they got the textures and taste right: there were crunchy, chewy, livery and tender parts combined with a good soy sauce-based flavor and white onion bits. Adding...

Restaurant Review: The Lechon Shop

https://www.instagram.com/p/B1icu2NHtuy/ Address: 49-B Sct. Tobias Street, Laging Handa, Quezon City Date visited: March 2019 The Taste 4/5 The lechon tasted good: tender texture and clean pork taste with just the right amount of fat. The skin was like thin and delicate candy glass - crunchy and sticks to your teeth. Really good with vinegar and...

Restaurant Review: Provenciano Restaurant

https://www.instagram.com/p/B1Q78tInckH/ https://www.instagram.com/p/B1Q8P_enozM/ https://www.instagram.com/p/B1Q8kVMHyyx/ https://www.instagram.com/p/B1Q82vkHvm3/ Address: 110 Maginhawa Street, Teachers Village, Quezon City Date visited: February 2019 The Taste 4/5 The laing dish (taro leaves in coconut cream with pork and chili) was delicious. It was creamy and the leaves had the right texture to them. The pork pieces added the right amount of fat and meat...

Restaurant Review: Lula’s House of Kare-Kare

https://www.instagram.com/p/BwhGAhklNVJ/ Address: 8 Pres. Roxas Corner Major Dizon Street, Industrial Valley, Marikina City Date visited: December 2018 The Taste 4/5 The "Original Lula's House of Kare-kare" tasted good. Kare-kare is a stew of thick peanut sauce and is accompanied by bagoong alamang (fermented shrimp paste). The meat and vegetables tasted really clean which is not so...

Restaurant Review: Mangan

https://www.instagram.com/p/BywxL1Iney3/ https://www.instagram.com/p/Byww9cYnXxK/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BywwtoXnv27/ Address: Ground Floor, Pedro Gil Wing, Robinsons Place Manila, Ermita, Manila Date visited: April 2019 The Taste 4/5 The pork sisig was good while the adobo tasted more like asado than adobo. The mango salad and sinigang na bangus (milkfish in sour guava soup) were just ok. The gising-gising was the best tasting...

Restaurant Review: Elar’s Lechon

https://www.instagram.com/p/BycesRVnDse/ Address: 151 Quezon Avenue Corner Speaker Perez, Lourdes, Banawe, Quezon City Date bought: June 2019 The Taste 5/5 Elar's Lechon is our favorite Manila-type lechon. The skin is very crispy on the first bite then, it just melts in your mouth. The meat tastes so clean, sweet, juicy and tender. Their lechon sauce (not in...