Lucky you there's Golden Fortune Part 2 (or How to eat shabu shabu)

Ber months bring in colder nights, perfert for hotpot during the nighttime.
If you're looking for a hotpot/ shabu shabu that's open til late at night, Golden Fortune is it.
Starting from 9:00 pm, their hotpot/shabu-shabu menu is slashed from 30 - 50% off.

Beef set about Php 500, dumplings are ordered extra

If you haven't tried easting hot pot, this is how it's done.
1) Choose your soup. There's plain chicken stock and the spicier sate.
Or you can have half plain, half sate in one pot.

2) Choose your ingredients, a hotpot usually consists of meat (beef, mutton, pork, chicken, seafood, dumplings, veggies and noodles)

3) Mix your sauce. You get diced garlic, leeks, light soy sauce, peanut, chili sauce, diced chili.

4) Wait for the soup to boil. Or you can dump in the ingredients (veggies and sliced beef last, because they cook easily)

5) Eat. Or you can do it Korean style, wait for the soup to boil and just dip your beef in your ladle/ chopsticks til it cooks in the soup. (Not a recommended way to cook dumplings, coz you might get it raw)

Golden Fortune's menu has a lot of stuff
but I recommend getting the sliced fat beef, shrimp dumplings, tofu skin, taro, cheese balls (yep squid balls with cheese inside). And you're a happy camper.

Enjoy!

Golden Fortune
G/F Peace Hotel, 1283 Soler St. Binondo, Manila (02) 244-2777

Spoon Rating
3

Rating
Zero Spoons - Not coming back
One Spoon - Something's wrong here
Two Spoons - Average Joe
Three Spoons - Good but can do better
Four Spoons - Yummy, la
Five Spoons - Where have you been all my life?

Reminiscing Ms. B's Tuckshop

There are a lot of good restaurants, but few serve unforgettable comfort food. Ms. B's Tuckshop was one of those rarities. Tucked at a quiet location on Jupiter street, Ms. B's has already closed but the great food served there will forever live in our minds and palates through pics.

We were lucky to try this place two years ago. The menu was just written on their blackboard of a wall.  This place served stuff that foodie legends were made of, too bad they didn't long enough to tell about the tale. Heard the awesome chefs were a team of Singaporean and his Pinay gf who trained in New York.

Their stuff is a foodie wet dream.
Check out this Bagnet burger, it's literally two pieces of Bagnet (Deep fried pork belly) stuffed between a bun.

OMG between bites

Bagnet x 2

This blackboard also serves as their menu

kamote fries and homemade ketchup

I can still remember the taste of their Calamansi Beignets.
These babies are the most delicious things I've ever tasted
and its just plain French doughnuts and confectioner's sugar, but they have a sauce for you to dip in. If you've seen Disney's "The Princess and the Frog", you'll
know what I mean.

Dear Ms B owners, I'm still waiting for you to open to a new location soon,
for now I will only enjoy the pictures and the good memories I had of this
little place called Ms B's Tuckshop.

Suzhou Dimsum - the best comfort food for me

A lot of Suzhou Dumplings branches have been sprouting from nowhere. Among all the branches, you must try these three because they're authentic - Malate, Chinatown and Mandaluyong. Others I can't vouch for.

Personally, I like going to Suzhou Malate, its this hole-in-the-wall place among a sea of beerhouses and nighclubs in Mabini street. This place opens til late at night. And your first  Xiaolungpao is best experienced here. Xiaolungpao are soup dumplings you dip first in vinegar,  sip the soup then finish it off.

Suzhou serves them in 4 pieces per order, I suggest two orders immediately because they only steam upon order. These dumplings doesn't have the very thin layer unlike the ones is more refined places like Shi lin or Lugang,  And at 100 bucks per order, this one's a steal.

Hot and Sour soup, very addicting, you've been warned!

Fried Beef Noodles, hits the spot, every time

Xiaolungpao -Make your tummy happy with these babies

I also love their Hot and Sour soup, the mix of hotness and sourness whets my appetite more and is best paired with their Fried Beef Noodles. We also order the Panfried Shallot Cake. And just like McArthur, I'm sure you'll be back.

Here's their menu from zomato.com
http://apac1.zmtnws.com/menus/6303474/22251c831b60427bcab9b5451ad0df75-7.jpg


Suzhou Dimsum
A. Mabini St. Malate Manila
4 spoons out of 5

Note: Parking may be a problem if you're coming
lunch or dinner time

Going loco over Poco Deli

Poco Deli serves the best comfort food. The small deli/wine bar/dessert place is one of those secret places tucked at foodie paradise Kapitolyo Pasig. And they've opened in Ayala Triangle!
Poco serves some of the best sausages I've tasted and I heard the owner mentored at Mickey's (before the owner of Mickey's) passed away. Speaking of sausages, Poco's has my favorite Nurnberger pork sausages (same as Mickey's) And they also have the famous their bacon (a whole block) and bacon rice. Their menu has expanded to pasta, pizza and other stuff. But this bacon thing is to die for. Imagine bacon as big as blocks? You bet! At Poco's you get the whole liempo part. And if that's not enough the rice has enough bacon bits to last you till Timbuktu. You have to taste it to believe. We were so happy to find Poco's in Makati that we dined here for 2 straight nights. Just imagine the pounds I gained from eating all that bacon! Their tapa is good, too!

Poco Deli is located at Ayala Triangle beside Kanin Club and Kapitolyo, Pasig