The Binondo Food Walk

Been hearing so much about the Binondo Food Walks that we decided to try it ourselves. Instead of paying for a tour guide to help us out, we decided to just borrow a Binondo Food Wok map and made our own itinerary. There were 5 of us, I was the only girl =), and we took just one car to save on parking. We were able to secure a parking slot near the church (Php 40 pesos).

We started our food trip at Tasty Dumplings.

Tasty Dumpling Menu

We were there before 11am so the place wasn't crowded yet. Here's what we ordered;

Kuchay Dumplings (Php82), Pork Chop Rice (Php 115), Spareribs (Php 140) and Silver Bread Roll (Php 53).

 The Dumplings were my favorite of the food items, it had pork and chives inside. The bread rolls were also good, we came back to order rolls to go =) We stayed in for awhile to figure out our route;

Really handy map!

Next up was Chuankee Fast Food to try the famous soup #5 (Bull's penis if you are wondering). The place was quite busy, we had to wait for a table. This gave us time to order the soup and some kikiam;

The soup #5 was pretty good, it tasted like regular Bulalo, although I did not taste the meat =) The kikiams were bigger than the usual ones we see on the streets. Well worth the money. We were able to share the soup and the kikiam between the 5 of us.

Further along Yuchengco Street, we found Sincerity Restaurant rumored to have the best fried chicken. According to the Food Wok map, another food to try in Sincerity is the Oyster Cake. I love oysters and was really excited to taste this. We ordered half a fried chicken to share. No rice so we won't be full =)

Sincerity Menu

Fried Chicken (Half) for only Php 150

Oyster Cake (Small) for Php 140

 The fried chicken was delicious! Crispy and tasty and juicy... we almost wanted to order rice! The oyster cake... ugh. It looked like an omelet with big juicy oysters and some sticky rice gel underneath. It tasted like a mix of oysters, egg and tikoy. Not recommended hehehe. We ended up taking the leftover oyster with us. I gave it to a dwarf man begging for food.

After eating from 3 restaurants, we decided to take a long walk so we would feel hungry again. We walked around Ongpin and even went inside a few jewelry stores since my friend was checking the price of a silver bracelet. We even saw a novelty store selling some pretty good stuff!

 Feeling a little tired, we saw the DEC store and hubby got all excited because he really loves the diced hopia and iced drinks available from this store. Sadly, there were no hopias but there were cold bottled drinks. I got the almond jelly for Php 40. Since we were there, we decided to buy some pasalubong. I got tubes of big haw flakes for my daughter, some tikoy delicacies for me and buchi. My friend bought some frozen dimsum. The ever so popular President's dimsum place was nearby and we decided to eat yet again by ordering several dimsum.

Hakaw

Chicken Feet

Siomai

We were served hot tea and they did not mind that we have several bottles of DEC bottled drinks. The siomai was meaty and juicy. But the hakaw was the best! Fresh, plump shrimps inside the pristine white wrapping. Hubby loved the chicken feet, he said the sauce was sweet and spicy. We spent less than 500 pesos for what we ordered.

After exiting President's, I took a picture with the famous Ongpin street sign;

After the street sign, we saw Mr. Ube's. I was happy to see that they had Laksa on the menu and ordered that. We also got the Pancit Canton. The laksa was average in taste. Not too spicy and the noodles were a bit soggy. Same for the noodles in the pancit canton. At leas the place was clean and they had a bathroom where we were able to freshen up.

We ended our food walk buying more pasalubong in Ho-land where we bought several kinds of hopia.

The trip took us about 4 hours. It was hot so best to wear light clothing and comfortable shoes. I wanted to go around some more but we were all so tired. Definitely looking forward to Part 2!