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• Lunch at Ma Mon Luk

  Date: 2010.03.24 | Category: Asian cuisine | Response: 2

  Last week we went to the client’s office in Quezon City and we had lunch at Ma Mon Luk along Quezon Avenue, near Araneta. It was one of those few times we get to eat there so it was pretty much another memorable trip there. For every one who eats there, the mami and siopao combination is really the best. Our friend, Martin, taught us to eat the noodles with the sauce. Yes, the asado siopao sauce. It’s pretty good when you mix it with the soup of the mami!

  

  That was my lunch. A HUGE special bola bola siopao and a large bowl of mami. The works, haha!How big is the siopao? Well it practically took up the entire saucer’s space. The siopao is really filled with meat and the mantao was yummy. Because this is bola bola siopao, I placed generous amounts of hot sauce. (Just thinking about it makes me drool and crave it again.)

  

  The mami was so good too. But because we got big bowls of mami, it was overwhelming for me! Too much food. Glorious food! If you haven’t tried eating it with the yummy sauce yet, I encourage you to do so. You could even try separating the noodles from the soup and then add sauce to the noodles. There’s also additional spring onion so you could try adding more of that too.

  

  The menu of Ma Mon Luk is not limited to mami and siopao. They also have other dishes. They a beef dish I like. Too bad I can’t recall the name right now but it’s very good. I love the taste of that one.

• Lunch at Talking Tongues

  Date: 2009.08.29 | Category: Asian cuisine | Response: 0

  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.