Food Thread

[BigBlue]

Any recommendations for decent (preferably authentic) Mexican food in Metro Manila?

Ristra's just off Wilson, San Juan.

[salsa caballero]

^ good call. They also have a branch at the Fort. IMHO, the best Mexican food in Manila.

[Joescoundrel]

Had a chance to dine at Tong Yang Megamall with the wife and one of our Ninongs a couple nights back. It is still to my mind one of the best values in the city eating scene. For P585 net per person inclusive of drinks (which includes surprisingly fresh San Miguel draft beer), that's quite a steal. We gorged on the Japanese scallops, shrimp, assorted clams, lapulapu and blue marlin fillets, fish cakes, shrimp balls, broccoli rabe, bok choy, sliced beef, liempo, abalone mushroom and even some crab and some decent siomai.

I'm wondering though, how do you guys think this compares to Yaki Mix...?

[xxiocebu]

Yaki Mix only tastes good if you get lucky in making your own marinade/mix.

[Joescoundrel]

^ Ironically the non-grill items at Yaki Mix are top notch, from the sushi and sashimi to the salads and the prepared entrees like the crispy pata and the shrimp tempura. If you eat mostly the marinated beef and shrimp, and then a lot of the salmon and tuna sashimi, some of the ebi sushi, and some tempura and crispy pata, Yaki Mix would turn out to be a good enough value for P589 per person.

[bchoter]

Authentic thai? Try dek-a along zobel roxas. The owner is part thai, whole hottie!

[LION]

Authentic thai? Try dek-a along zobel roxas. The owner is part thai, whole hottie!

Is she there all the time?

[bchoter]

Not sure about all the tine but she's thete everytime i go there . Authentic down to the accent...

[danny]

Authentic thai? Try dek-a along zobel roxas. The owner is part thai, whole hottie!

Is she there all the time?

Pumunta na lang kasi ng Pat Pong Road ng matigil na. Magkano lang ba pamasahe sa Thailand.


Came back from Seattle and took a bite from Pearl Jam's favorite Mexican Resto. We were suppose to go to the Batali's salumeria (Yes the father of Mario Batali). Anak ng totoy naman, ang agang magsara. I would like to sample their lamb prosciutto and all their other stuff and compare it with SFs very best salumeria.

Daming Mexicano. Mapa New York o San Francisco, puro Mexicano...second language na nga nila ang Mexican.

:D





Here's a question for everyone.


If a Russian in Moscow will serve you Pancit Palabok, can you consider it authentic?

What makes a food authetic? Ingredients, cooking technique and the cook?

[Sam Miguel]

^^^ Danny, I think for as long as the ingredients and technique are what they are supposed to be for the original recipe then the food is authentic. It is definitely my own narrow-mindedness, but if any ingredient is subsituted, or technique not followed, then definitely I cannot consider that authentic anymore. In the case of pancit palabok, it has to be real rice clear white noodles, not the so-called "egg noodles" the Caucasians love so much, or much less so spaghetti or capellini. The sauce has to be made from real shrimp stock, tinted to a red-orange hue with achuete oil (preferably, instead of achuete water), then thickened with giniling na bigas instead of corn starch or all-purpose flour, and seasoned with real Pinoy patis, not Thai or Viet fish sauce no matter how much some may protest that those taste better.