Tabemashou!

This was quite some time ago. Sorry I haven’t been posting. But it’s not like a lot of people read this blog anyway. So yeah, JM and I found Talking Tongues one lunch time that we went to Z’s in Salcedo Village in Makati. Talking Tongues is along San Agustin Street, in between Leviste and Valero. Talking Tongues replaced Han Kang, a Korean resto.

Talking Tongues serves Chinese Indonesian food. We think that he owner is probably Indonesian because she asked me if I was one. (Being Filipino, we are usually mistaken for being Indonesian, Thai, Chinese, etc.) We ordered our food and she asked us if we wanted our food spicy. Of course we said yes! So we sat down on one of the tables while waiting for our food. Looks like they prepare things as they were ordered so it took a while. We looked at the decorations of the place and the uniforms the staff sort of reminded me of Banana Leaf’s staff uniform. The place was colorful with the yellow, purple and blue stuff and furniture. There were even some kind of figures on display. I think it’s to emphasize that they serve Chinese Indonesian cuisine.

It was actually hard to decide on what to eat, considering that everything on the menu seemed interesting. It doesn’t help that seeing all those food being served to their customers when we arrived looked great and smelled like it. Ah food. We really hoped to eat them and get satisfied in the end.

This is what the placed looked like.

The food

JM’s food was some kind of spicy fried rice dish with egg on top of it. The barbequed chicken was the viand. But really, I think that the rice itself was ok already. There were also pickled cucumbers on the side. We sure were glad to ask for spicy food because we got what we asked for. And there was even hot sauce on the table for those who wanted it extra spicy. As you can see from the picture, the rice looked like it had a lot of spices when it was prepared.

At first I was thinking that maybe my food will end up bland because of the light color. It wasn’t as red as JM’s rice. But I was wrong. It was actually quite spicy. Adding the hot sauce made me think that the dish I ordered was some kind of a traitor. Just striking when you least know it. But that’s ok. Spicy is good!

The fried dumplings were a bit ‘meh’ for my taste. And not so meaty either. I could have eaten dumplings elsewhere. But the rice dishes were really terrific and I wish that I could have eaten a whole lot more.

I’d gladly go back to Talking Tongues some other day. I hope to bring some friends there some time too.

I ordered two things: the spicy fried rice with bit of dried fish and egg plus fried dumplings.