A quick takeout before closing the food crawl Hakaw – all shrimp filling up to the brim! I like it when there are no extenders in dumplings. Japanese Siomai – meatier than your average Japanese siomai from train station/mall stalls And that concludes the BGC self-organized food crawl! We used accumulated gift certificates to cover most of the bill for all the shops we went … Continue reading BGC Food crawl stop 4: Wangfu take-Out
When your schedules finally align and coincidentally there’s also a buy 1 take 1 on Xiao Long Bao, better have that reunion at Din Tai Fung! My former officemates and I met up for dinner. They are have also resigned and our new offices are quite close to each other. Oh, we also celebrate our birthdays on the same month. The Food: Hot and Sour … Continue reading Food: Din Tai Fung – Belated Birthday Meet Up
Got some GCs and used them! There are some items I wanted to try for the first time in this restaurant, and some to reorder. The Food: Xiao Long Bao Black Truffle Of their 8 xiao long bao flavors, Black Truffle is one of my favorites aside from the Crab Roe variant. The taste of the truffle is strong enough to be noticed but not … Continue reading Food: Paradise Dynasty – Chinese Fare on GCs
Took the chance to try this fine dining restaurant with a discount – 50% off the total bill with a minimum purchase, thanks to a credit card promo. The minimum purchase was quite a sum so we were able to order a number of items. Here’s what we had. House Specialty Steamed Truffle Mushroom Buns Mimicking button mushrooms in shape, complete with the cracked brown … Continue reading Food: China Blue – Classy Chinese Cuisine
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