King Chef restaruant @ Lucky Chinatown Mall

Manila - After walking around Binondo (Chinatown), we hanker for good Chinese food and came across King Chef, it was crowded and had a queue in line. Put my name down and was 6 in line for a table. We waited probably around 30 mins and was called for a table.

We ordered standard Siew Mei and Har Kou - the Siew Mei was good but the Har Kou was not given a full fresh prawns like good Chinese restaurants. I was quite disappointed.

Donny and I having our lunch

Carrot cake

It was good and very different with each piece carrot cake fried to crisp and then stirred fried with onions and spring onions. It was a good dish.

Big bowl of Fish Lip soup

What is Fish Lip soup?

It is actually not made of Fish lips otherwise there will be lots of fish lips to be used. It is actually skin of big fish, especially to skin around the tail fin of shark. (In many restaurants it is added to bulk up the sharks' fin soup).

This dish tasted like Shark fish soup and adding vinegar made it taste very nice and delicious.

Fried Pork Ribs

It was a bit too salty to my taste but the meat was very tender and succulent.

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