Sizzzzzzzzzling Sisig

Kawali Filipino Kamayan Cuisine (Wan Chai)
Came back for more Filipino food because this place has unlimited rice refills.


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Sizzling sisig:

Sisig is made from parts of the pig’s head and liver, usually seasoned with calamansi and chili peppers.

Previously I tried this before at Quezon which was really oily, but the Sisig here is actually quite good.
The pieces of pig's head are very gelatinous and sticky which is lovely with rice and it is very appetizing because there is lots of vinegar and calamansi seasoning.
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Adobo:

Chose the Adobo which I tried last time, it is chicken in a vinegary sauce.
The vinegar was quite strong but it made the chicken extremely appetizing and delicious with the rice.
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Next time I will try the Kare Kare!

Top notch Filipino Kamayan Cuisine

Kawali Filipino Kamayan Cuisine (Wan Chai)

When I saw this place listed on Openrice, I really wanted to go, it is interesting that this place has a Chinese name too!

Compared to my usual Flipino fare, the prices at this place are quite expensive.

In Wan Chai, there are now three places where you can get Flipino food.
Cinta J which is quite Chinese during lunch, while the new Cinta J Express was more authentic but only open during the evenings and Quezon which provides really cheap authentic Flipino food.

The decor of this place is green and vibrant.


After browsing the menu, they had steak sets and chicken but I wanted some real native dishes.

The a la carte menu seemed a better choice.


The good thing about this place is that the rice is unlimited and the food was so delicious that I had two plates of rice!


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Chicken adobo:
Adobo is basically a vinegary sauce.
On first sight, it looked quite Chinese, it had lots of cracked black pepper.
The vinegar was quite strong but it made the chicken extremely appetizing.
Beneath the pieces of chicken, there were four chicken wings.
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Dinuguan:
This is basically pork and offal cooked in spicy dark gravy of pig blood, garlic, chili, and vinegar.
There were pieces of beef stomach as well.
I really liked it and expected it to taste good, the porks blood was fresh and the sauce did not have a rancid smell or taste.
The pork in this dish was lean so there was not much oil compared to other Dinuguan dishes from other restaurants.
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Luckily the rice is refillable so you can have as much as rice as you want!

Corned beef and aubergine delights

Restaurant: Quezon:

Came here again for my favourite Flipino food.

Basically you choose two items with rice.



This time I chose corned beef and aubergines in shrimp paste.


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Corned beef:
Corned beef
I have tried this before many times because it tastes delicious but I never knew what it was.
The texture of the meat is slightly different and I finally found out that it was corned beef.
It is different to the British corned beef in terms of texture and it had peas and sweetcorn which was delicious.
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Eggplant in shrimp paste:

Delicious soft eggplants in shrimp paste.
The shrimps in the sauce were really tiny!
It was delicious but slightly too salty.
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More Filipino food @ Cinta J Express

Restaurant: Cinta J Express (Wan Chai)

Previously this tiny joint used to be Quezon which served DELICIOUS Filipino food.
But now it is Cinta Express.


I love Flipino food, but at this joint the Filipino food is rather expensive, I wonder how the the local Filipinos can afford it.

Anyway, they have a restaurant on Jaffe Road called Cinta J Restaurant which I really hate because it is not Filipino food at all.
They just serve Chinese food there.

On the first day of opening, the lunch choices were half Chinese and half Filipino.

I chose the a la carte Palabok which was the most expensive Palabok in Hong Kong, but saying that there is a new Filipino restaurant in Wan Chai called Kawali Filipino Kamayan Cuisine which also serves Filipino food at expensive prices.

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Palabok:


Compared to the Palabok at Jolibees, the portion was much bigger and there was lots of sauce.
The sauce had rich prawn taste and the pieces of pork were nice and lean.
The rice vermicelli was cooked just right, not too soft or hard.
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I was quite disappointed the next day because they were back selling Chinese food because Chinese people do not eat Flipino food, and a few days later Cinta J restaurant was short of manpower so this place was temporarily closed.

Pinoy style Pickled egg with tomatoes and onions

One of my regular places has packed up so I am back to lovely Pinoy food again, which is light and non oily and better than HK style oily food!

Basically, you can pick two choices and meat and a veg for $25 with rice.

I never know what I eat from here because the food is not labelled but 9 out of 10 times it tastes good.
Everytime I come here there is always something new........... how do they do that???

I find the best days to come are on Mondays because Sunday is the day off for Philipinos, so to cater for them they will offer a bigger variety and on the next day, they are bound to have those varieties leftover for those who cannot take Sundays off and take Monday off.

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Pickled egg with tomatoes and onions:

 

Before I tried it, I did not know what it was, but it got my attention because it was sliced boiled eggs.
Usually boiled eggs are used in salads and not cooked again, but since it was a cooked dish, I decided to try it to see what was so special!
The tastes was just amazing. At first I thought it was a salted egg, but the saltiness was really light but enough and it was also sour too because I realised it had been pickled. It was so refreshing.
There was also tomatoes and onions with it which made it even more appetizing.
The egg yolk had turned velvety like starch just like Salted egg yolks without the heavy saltiness.
I wish they could offer this everyday.
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Bittermelon with egg:

 

The bittermelon was not soft enough this time but it still tasted ok.
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Sweet bun:

 

I do not know what this is, but it tasted really nice even though the paste in the middle was a bit too colourful.
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Super Jolly and Jollier with Jollibee food

I was here again for my favourite fried chicken and palabok.
The lovely fried chicken comes with gravy so I always order extra fries to go with gravy.
The service is really efficient and after you order most of the food is ready on your tray in an instant which is so much quicker than KFC.
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Fried chicken:

 

The chicken was fried just right, it tasted nice with or without gravy much better than KFC.
Although it smells of horrible oil fumes outside, the chicken does not taste rancid, nor does the restaurant smell inside.
The chicken that they serve here is always chicken drumstick or the chicken thigh!
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Fries and gravy:

 

The fries were perfect, just the way I like them because they are pale and not over done.
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palabok:

 

The palabok was a bit too heavy this time, there was too much lard in it despite using the lemon to balance it out.
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Lemon Tea:

 

It was interesting they actually put a slice of lemon despite it was lemon tea from the dispenser.
The lemon tea was way too sweet and syrupy for me.
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Came here again for more food.
As well as the food and great packaging, it is interesting they are quite hygienic and concerned about health because on the paper it tells you not to place your food directly on the trayliner.

 

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Hotdog:

 

The hot dog was nice and soft but the sausage tasted quite beefy.
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Crispy bangus:

 

This turned out to be amazing. As well as the fried chicken, this is also delicious.
I have been eating this all the time at Quezon in Wan Chai, but I did not realise Jolibee also offered this.
Basically it is deep fried peppered fish with vinegar. The one at Quezon is half of a whole fish because it is a smaller fish and it still has bones but the one here is a bigger piece of BONELESS fish!!!

 

The vinegar is given separately here and the fish tastes good with or without vinegar!

 

I thought I had to wait, but the fish and other meals were already boxed and ready to serve!
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Peach and mango pie:

 

 

I do not like mango but I tried it anyway! The filling was slightly different to the product shot because the mango and peach had already been mashed up, but the taste was amazing, usually Pinoy food is too sweet however the sweetness was just right and the peach was strong that I could not taste the mango.
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Coconut and pineapple:

 

I tried this because in the Pinoy cuisine they use young coconut and this pie was also delicious because there was more proportion of young coconut and the sweetness was just right too.
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