When my brother in-law visited us again, he stayed in BSA Tower Serviced Suites in Makati. The place is located in front of Greenbelt 5 where lots of restaurants exists just walking distances away. My sister in-law wanted us to try Chef de Angelo but it closes early so we always end up into David Tea House located a couple of blocks from Chef de Angelo. Although we already tried David’s Tea house branch in Baguio, I never thought it was in Greenbelt that the restaurant serves better tasting dishes out of the same dishes it serves in Baguio.

As usual, we ordered lemon chicken, fried rice and luckily chicken pancit canton since we love noodles. I think we ate there for four times in just one week with the same ordered dishes saved for added vegetables and fried tofu in between. Just last night we had dinner in the place again with very same order. I think I really need a good appetite suppressant already on our next visit because I cannot control myself even with the same menu we had ordered due to the delicious taste of these dishes.

I was curious when I heard about the oldest restaurant in the Philippines called Ambos Mundos. It is a fusion of both Spanish and Filipino restaurant located along Palanca St. in Recto Manila. It was first opened by Spanish immigrants Gaudinezes way back in 1888.

Story has that that one of the Gaudinezes married Leung, from a Chinese family in Chinatown. In 1955 they opened another restaurant which was more famous. The cantonenese restaurant Wah Sun Cantonesse Panciteria was just across Ambos Mundos.

Today, Wah Sun is not only well known for their foods but also for their added pets display. Exotics animals like Albino Python, baby crocodile, fishes like Arruanas, carps among others with the animal cages, pet beds and aquarium are inside their restaurant.

I am sure it will be another eating experience and adventure. Hopefully we can visit and try its menu offerings. It is not hard for us to locate the place because the people who already visited the place say that you will see the captivating pet pig tied outside the restaurant both in Ambos Mundos and in Wah Sun.

Last Sunday my wife asked me if we could have our weekly grocery in Shopwise hypermart since they don’t have parking fees and sometimes there’s  a lot of snacks and drinks on sampling sprees — from breakfast cereals, chocolate cookies, noodle soup, juices, coffee, wine and yes, ice cream.

But since I don’t take my breakfast and I was not feeling well that time, I wanted to have a congee meal first. For some reason, I suddenly became hungry that morning. Lucky I saw a small booth of Mongkok at the ground floor. There is a lot of food both at the ground floor to choose from and shawarma is one of my favorites there.

Going back to Mongkok I was lucky that morning because of Mongkok congee and beef siopao allevaiated my hunger pangs. I wish I could visit the original Mongkok restaurant in Greenhills to have a taste in their beef and vegetable fried noodles.

Monkok Menu

We always love to eat in Super Bowl of China. My wife was the one who introduced me to this Chinese restaurant when Denice and I were still not married then. Everytime I would visit her in Manila we would always have our date in Super Bowl. I will never forget the menu she made me try and these remain the dishes I keep ordering until now; crispy noodles with beef brisket, beef broccoli, lemon chicken, fried chicken and their fried rice with salted fish. Since then we still keep on coming back to the restaurant. I fell in love with its crispy noodles since noodles are really my favorite dish eversince. My Japanese blood could also be the reason why I love noodles so much.

Every time we have visitors, friends and relatives from the province we always recommend Super Bowl because foods there are delicious and not as pricey as the other restos. Service is also fine, you get your order in no time even when we have to wait for how many minutes before we could have our table ready. This is because they usually have long lines of customers lining up especially during lunch and dinner time.

I’m just sad that the restaurant doesn’t serve our favorite crispy noodles nowadays. I also visited their sister restaurant Big Buddha and unfortunately, it’s not served anymore in that place either.

Just hoping that the management or the owner of Superbowl of China and Big Buddah will serve it again…please!