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Sep 122011
 

Here we are again, eating at our regular filipino restaurant. This time our main reason for eating here was for their buko pandan sherbet dessert that Colleen likes so very much. And as for me, any reason I can eat crispy pata is a good enough reason to go to a filipino restaurant.

See our first visit here.

We wanted to eat something hot, not spicy hot but as in cooked hot so we ordered ourselves some fried noodles called cha-mi. We liked this dish, it came hot and freshly made. The sauce wasn’t over powering and it was a nice change from your regular chow mein. It’s basically a fookien style thick noodle with some vegetables. For some reason though the noodles on our dish was very short, like broken end pieces or something. And that’s basically the only complain here, maybe they could be more generous with the amount of noodles next time.

Can’t go without some lumpia shanghai with Colleen. Deep fried spring rolls are a must! This order came out hot and it tasted the same as last time, filled with stuffing.  Pretty solid deal.

Of course I myself can’t go without my crispy pata!! This is a large size in terms of portion order. They offer a variety of sizes from small, medium and large. There isn’t a lot of meat regardless even though it is a large, the bone underneath took over most of the plate. However, taste and texture wise this is still great and is a must order for me all the time.

We also got an order of garlic fried rice. It had large chunks of garlic for a great flavor and it wasn’t clumpy or mushy.

Finally the main attraction for the evening, the buko pandan sherbet!! The waitress was kind enough to fill ours to the rim! To the point where it was over flowing lol. We gladly took a spoon each and went at it from both sides of the cup.  It was delicious as always.

Overall our dinner was solid and we had fun being seated right by the door and even had to share a table with a family of four.

Post by Marv

Pinpin on Urbanspoon

Aug 252011
 

This dinner was organized by none other than our favorite commenter Crispy Lechon and his family, which during the dinner I still referred him to as Crispy, LOL  So on behalf of Colleen and myself, I would like to thank you for inviting us to join in tonight.

Check out Food For Buddha’s post here!

We were a bit late coming to dinner, everybody was already inside waiting for us and we took our time getting there because I was assuming filipino time and we all know that means an hour or so late, lol  but not this time.  So we got there exactly at 7 and we were the last ones to arrive…  Sorry guys!   Anyways, introductions were done and the menu ordering was handed over to Crispy to hook us up with our dinner items.

Up here we got palabok.  I must admit, my mom’s version is still the best.  So there.  Bias much!  To the right we have bopis and dinuguan, I’m not a fan of both dishes for these very reasons, I don’t wana know whats in them. lol  Just kidding!  Bopis is pork lungs and hearts all minced up and cooked in a stir fried manner which is a normal pulutan dish (meal with beer) and this is what people eat late at night as a snack-ish.

Dinuguan is even better!  It’s a mix of pork innards and its sauce is the actual pork blood itself rendered down.  LOL   SO there, honestly though, give it a try and it is delicious.  Have it with some puto and you can make it through more than a couple of spoons worth.  LOL

Both these dishes are a very traditional filipino and they are both delicious to eat.  Of course once you describe the ingredients it would deter other people but we’re asian and we eat anything and everything.

This here is their version of fried rice, which is mixed with shrimp paste (bago-ong) I thought it was just right, not over powering yet still had its fragrance from the shrimp paste.  Next to it is our order of bbq pork sticks.  It’s basically a sweet type marinade/basting sauce and it was surprisingly yummy. A generous portion at that too.

Here we have some lumpia shanghai.  These were just fillers, nothing special.  A generous portion though for the price.  And on the right is my all time favourite, crispy pata.  I think this portion is really small and there really was more bone than meat.  An honest opinion would be that this was a fairly made pata and I just thinks it needs to be fried a bit longer for more of a crispy texture to it.

This blurry picture up top is a grilled jaw of tuna.  Kinda like the fish cheek area there.  A very basic salt base marinade, nothing special.  Next to it is a beef caldereta which I ordered because I was craving a tomato sauce dish, what I originally wanted was a menudo but they don’t make it here.  So we move on.  Oh, the flavor of the caldereta was so-so, I’ve had better.

We ordered a buko pandan for dessert and its not even as close to being as good as the one in pinpin.  Next to it is a ube cake,  I didn’t try this because I don’t like cakes.  LOL  but the consensus on the table was that it was aiiiight.

This is their version of halo-halo,  Its nice to have all the fancy stuff on top and this is a treat because of all the fancy stuff on top.  Got some custard and ube ice cream…….fancy.  Also on the side we ordered up some ube ice cream, which for the price I could have gone across the street to buy a tub of it.

Overall we had a blast eating together and tons of laughter was held by all.  We didn’t get a chance to talk much to Crispy because he was all the way on the other side of the table but we substituted for Crispy Jr instead and we all had more in common than we thought.  Our next gathering is coming up soon and this time I’m sure will hold more laughter and fun for all.

Post by Marv

Kumare Restaurant & Bakery on Urbanspoon

Jun 172011
 

Happy birthday Colleen!  How else to celebrate but with a big meal.  Yes, we ate here the day before her actual birthday to have a post up today!  My mom wanted to have Colleen try Filipino food since she hasn’t had much exposure to it.  And where we decided to go was Pin Pin on Fraser street with tons of parking at the back.  My family has eaten here numerous times before and we have always had a good experience.

Pinpin
6113 Fraser St, Vancouver BC
Tel#:  (604) 322-3086

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