Foot and Fire

        Pechay, the native kind. Other green can be used. There is nothing like hot pot. First, because it's always a one-pot for us where we put all ingredients all at once and sip the soup. Second, we love the soup from slow cook like those in the bulalo and batchoy. Third, we have no patience for one at a time food trip. LOL Well, it is nice to try it once in a while, at home. Shabu shabu at home... Vermicelli or glass noodle is a better choice among noodles in the grocery.                          Fresh chicken eggs. Frozen items from the grocery: Tufo seafood and Fishcake.                          Kimchi on the side... The chili for the soup from China. I used the Vietnamese soup base bouillon for the non-chili soup. I do not like the peanut-vinegar accompaniment. (Even those prepared in the Beijing Shabu-shabu).       ...

By GERLIE M. UY We had dinner in a mall for the first time in our string of travel days. We dined at Hainanese Delights  located in the Robinson's Mall, Puerto Princesa City, Palawan... The food is great and refreshing to our tastebuds, especially the ginger-infused rice and steamed chicken. The condiments. *** Glass noodles. *** The steamed chicken. *** sauce for the steamed chicken. *** Vegetable with fried tofu.. *** Fried chicken. *** Dumplings. *** Dumplings. *** meat and vege dumpling. *** *** *** the ginger-infused Hainan rice. ***

By GERLIE M. UY Egg drop clear soup with wood ear mushroom and cucumber.   Sour Chili oil noodle...looks like our spagghetti in tomato sauce Noodle in chili oil with a hint sour pumpkin cake, (not sweet) hotpot soup, boiling hotpot stuffs Mantu, a siopao minus the fillings... not chinese... beef noodles bird's nest wood ear, green chili, chicken strips bird's nest vegetable with fresh noodle in oil with spices varied mushrooms soup bingka, chinese version noodles... TAW SHAM hahhaha Glass noodles and bean sprouts stir fry quail egg, mushroom and "spam" soup Dumpling in a sesame soup dumplings in a basket Lubid-lubid of Tianjin... not sweet Nothing inside. This is just a fried skin.. beef soup vegetable dumplings Bird's nest vegetable and corn cream soup