Luk Yuen

Maidette had some purchases to make at Babyland, hence, our choice of lunch place came back to Glorietta. After going through the list of places to eat, where Mimi voted off the suggestion of Wok Inn, we settled on having lunch at Luk Yuen.

Luk Yuen is one of those chinese noodle houses that started way back in the early 80s. Its quite known for its noodle dishes, congee, taro puff and some dimsum. However, it was not able to differiate a lot its offers from other noddle places like Hap Chan, North Park or Mann Hann. While North Park continued its expansion and re-invention, Luk Yuen seemed on the verge of folding up with only few dining places that's left in operation.

Mimi did not want to order for the group today. She wanted to have her own food, that of her liking. She was traumatized by the kind of pasta that was served the other day in Pizza Hut Bistro, which was not to her liking.

Me, I ordered for myself the lapu-lapu fillet in bitter gourd rice. While for dessert, I had momo chacha, some kind of sweetened rice porridge with lots of yams, tapioca and coconut milk.

The lapu-lapu fillet was cooked crisp and served with generous amount of rice, slices of bitter gourd with black bean sauce. The black bean sauce lent a lot of its flavor to the fish and the rice. In no time, I was able to consume it all. Maybe, I was hungry as well. Maidette had offered her siopao - asado to the group, as well as her taro puff. But I was excited to have my momo chacha more than anything. It came hot from the kitchen this time. The porridge was thick with lots of purple and sweet yam. The ground rice which we call "galapong" in the local dialect, was rolled in egg shapes and colored red, green and yellow. When Maidette saw it, she asked for asked to get one. I am not a fun of "galapongs", especially when its rolled into shapes, I liked it added as is in the porridge, unprocessed. Maidette loved it a lot and Gentley was tempted to get the other "galapong". In the end, Gentley had the other one that left on my plate.

We paid Php200.00 each, as well for this meal today. Still, really cheap. Maidette went out to Babyland to shop for some blankets, diapers and flanel sheets for her sister in Canada who is about to deliver her baby. I went to scour the shops for a decent desktop picture holder for a gift to Allan. He will celebrate his birthday this coming Friday, September 7th, and I have not thought of anything better to give. I know, he was building up his picture frame collection, I might as well add a piece. Hopefully, it gets his appreciation.

We were driven by Alvin today to Glorietta, me, Chay, Mimi, Gentley and Maidette.