Tasting the best of Binondo
Posted by on July 8, 2006
I just came from a Binondo foodtrip with Ajay and Vina. We braved the heavy downpour just to taste the best of Manila’s Chinatown.
We met at 10AM at Binondo Church. Our first agenda: coffee at Mezzanine Cafe. This cafe is located along Ongpin and Nueva street is a volunteer firemen’s cafe. Photos of firemen-in-action are hanged on the wall. Mezzanine Cafe also serves one of Ongpin’s most delicious Kiam Pong. A Fookien rice meal with bits of chicken, chives, peanuts and what-have-you.
From Mezzanine Cafe, we went to this secret dumpling house that serves authentic stemed dumplings. We ordered pork and kutchay dumplings. The price? believe it or not: PhP100 for 13 pieces of freshly steamed dumplings. That’s was cheap. Really.
From Nueva, we were forced to buy umbrellas due to the heavy downpour. It was already raining very very hard.
