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A Feast For The Family, Chinese food, cold cuts, family, fish, macapagal ave, Manila, MOA, valentines day
A week before Valentine’s weekend John and I were watching Captain Joy’s show. And I was too excited to contain what I saw that I immediately called my mother (She’s my lakwatsa partner and guru). She got excited too so we planned it.
Our supposedly weekend itinerary:
Saturday, February 13 we go here (see Captain Joy at 0:13, the guy in the blue pilot suit with glasses)
Then on Sunday, February 14 to here
But ended up here
En route to SM Mall of Asia from EDSA-Baclaran, traffic was at a stand still. We had to find other routes just to get to Mall of Asia. My parents gave up on going to Mall of Asia so we just had dinner at Hong Kong Chef Seafood Restaurant along Macapagal Ave.
We had an assortment of cold cuts consisting of Soy Chicken, Roast Chicken, BBQ Pork, slices of century egg and some jellyfish. Its typical, nothing to rave about.And the tiny cup at the foreground, the Spinach with scallops was a hit. Pureed spinach with scallops, silken tofu and some shrimps. Peewee didn’t like it because of the color. But all of us liked the soup.
Pancit canton with seafood was a big hit at our table. My mom kept saying that with just a few ingredients, the pancit was bursting with flavor. Simut-sarap!
The Beef Hot Pot was earthy like the beef was simmered in the thick sauce for days. The beef was so tender that it falls of the fork. Yummy.
Steamed fish fillet with garlic. My family always order this one whenever we go for Chinese. The fish was flaky and fresh. The sprinkling of the birds eye chillies (siling labuyo) gave this dish some kick at the end. The steamed fillets were atop of a bed of vermicelli noodles.
Shirmp Salad. Boiled shrimp mixed with fruit cocktail in a bed of shredded iceberg lettuce. It was okay because I’m biased with Peking Garden’s version.
Even though we didn’t get to do the things we wanted for this weekend, we were surrounded with a lot of love from family which is more important than any other adventure.
How was your Valentine’s day?
Urban Mudra 
whenever possible, tina and i also watch asian air safari and adore capt joy’s narration of his trips and adventures. we wished to see him last year when my parents & the entire family slept over fontana and spent a morning at the 14th hot air balloon fiesta; we only heard his name when it was mentioned on the start of the program. we thought he’s really cool guy.
i’ve been hearing raves about HK chef but haven’t tried it yet. the set you had looks really satisfying.
is HK chef budget-friendly?
it appears like urban mudra is starting to become a food blog, ingrid? š nice!
our v-day? i spent a day with fellow bloggers in binondo and went on a casual date on the afternoon with gabby & tina at cibo, gateway before we watched gabby’s requested movie. ’twas fun! š
hi Doc Gelo!
when i heard that the hot air balloon fest was organized by captain joy’s team na excite ako! I told John that my shy self will be out of the window if I see Cap. Joy and ask for a photo op. hehehehe he’s one cool pilot ano?
HK Chef is masarap at budget friendly, comparable to Mann Hann at Super Bowl. It was my dad’s idea to eat here, so I knew that it was good plus a lot of Chinoys were eating when we went.
naku Doc Gelo, talaga its just coincidence that I write about more food above anything else nowadays coz dami naming events pag February.
wow you went to binondo with fellow bloggers? sama naman ako! is this a yearly thing? can’t wait for your post on this.
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