Sumptuous Chinese Culinary Delights at the Binondo Chinatown Estero
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Posted on July 10, 2008
The Bloggers’s Binondo Chinatown Food Tour promises to be a one big muchfest. We started big on our appetizers at Dong Bei Dumplings in Nueva Street Binondo.
From Dong Bei, we then walked to probably one of Manila Chinatown’s most famous eatery: Estero.
Estero literally translates to canal in Filipino.
For the many and uninitiated, Binondo may look dirty and foul-odored. But behind this grimy image is a world of gastronomic delights where even the simplest food is turned into a masterpiece.
There are several eateries lined up along the Estero. Many offers ala carte dining while some asks you to pick your main ingredients and tell them how you want it cooked.
But right at the very long line of Binondo Estero eateries lies “Ang Tunay Beef House.” Ang Tunay stands for “The Real” in Filipino. And I can only assume that the house specialty is beef mami noodles.
While everyone is raving about the house specialty, I opted not to order it since I have other things in my mind.
Most of the bloggers ordered the beef noodles young chow fried rice and machang, while I had a bowl of Kiam Pung.
It has been ages since I have eaten Kiam Pung. While many describe Young Chow Fried Rice as a southern Chinese food, Kiam Pung on the other hand is northern. Young Chow and Kiam Pung are both rice-based but the intricacy on how they were prepared and the amount ingredients differ. Young Chow has a lot of ingredients like finely chopped sausages, bits of meat, spring onion. Kiam pung on the other hand is more simpler: soy sauce, some bit of meat, peanuts.
Aside from the Chinese rice dish I had, I also ordered shiitake mushrooms cooked with pechay.
Despite its location, the Estero Eatery in Binondo Chinatown especially the Ang Tunay Beff House is always teemed with hungry souls looking for nothing but great food at dirt cheap prices.
You like the blog post? Check out the other half of this adventure at Sugarloaded!
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Because of your pictures I am now craving for authentic Chinese food
Hi! Amazing blog you have–and the pictures make me hungry!
Just a correction though. Kiampeng is a southern dish too, because rice does not grow so well in North China. Yang Chow is named after the Yang Chow region in China, while kiampeng is from Fookien province. Both of these are from the southern part of china