Shi Lin Restaurant, plus some Street Food at Lucky Chinatown Mall

Shi Lin at Lucky Chinatown Mall

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Shrimp and Pork Siomai

Century Eggs with Bonito Flakes

Stir Fry Bokchoy

Fried Rice with Shrimp & Egg

Salt & Pepper Squid

Vegetable & Pork Wonton Soup

Deep Fried Asado Buns with condensed milk on the side.

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I'm finally done posting restaurants in Roseville.

My niece, Dr. Maria Cristina, came to visit me last week.

She is a dentist like her Ninang, (that's me) and is based in Okinawa.

The last time she was in Manila was probably 8 years ago.

The first place I brought her to was Chinatown!

It took us two hours to drive to Binondo.

We should have taken the MRT. It would take

about half an hour to get there, but, I didn't want

her to ride the jeepney or the 'padyak' from the
MRT to Lucky Chinatown Mall.

Baka ma-culture shock or catch some viral infection.

We had our Chinese or was it a Taiwanese lunch at Shi Lin?

I've dined at Shi Lin in Alabang a few years back and

didn't really like the food then. But this time, I actually 

enjoyed our lunch.  I particularly loved the Deep Fried Asado Buns, 

served with condensed milk on the side instead of the

regular brown siopao sauce.  The servings in Shi Lin 

are quite small, but that's okay,

their prices are actually very affordable.

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Street Food at Lucky Chinatown Mall

Pork Barbeque, Betamax, Isaw etc

Just to 'culture-shock' my Chicago raised niece..

 hee hee hee

Dynamite Roll ... Ate Nene said the jalapenos weren't spicy.

All sorts of balls - fish balls, squid balls, shrimp balls.

Hotdogs, Kani or Kikiam on sticks

I wonder whether those are real crab claws sticking out

of the faux crab cakes.

The Lechon Liempo

I tried making this before but only used 1 kilo of liempo.

Ate Nene prepared a 4 kilo lechon liempo roll for the 

party last Tuesday but since I didn't have a roasting rack 

and only had a roasting pan, I removed the strings that 

wrapped the liempo and just roasted the liempo flat,

skin side up on my small roasting pan.

The lemongrass at the bottom added that perfect flavor 

for this lechon liempo.  The entire house smelled extremely

delicious! The girls just loved my un-rolled lechon liempo.

OOOOps...... got side tracked again with kwento...

Anyway, I love going to Lucky Chinatown Mall.

Right beside it is 999 Mall. It's an airconditioned

tiangge (like Greenhills), but about four times bigger.

That's shopping, bargain shopping, to the max.

We will be back. 

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/ chicsanders 2014