Maiden Bites

Food food food! Having new items on the menu is one of my great joys as a food lover! Below are new chow selections that I came across for the past few weeks! Welcome to my Maiden Bites!

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A.) Am frequent MOA rat! When am in Manila, I stroll MOA almost everyday to dine and shop. From my recent visit, I get to try a new dish on the Chowking menu. Chowking Orange Chicken. Chowking had always been a family favorite, specially my dad who is a Congee Addict, and Chowking orange chicken would definitely be added to my Chowking faves. Mini Chicken strips drizzled and bedded on Sweet & Orangey sauce and topped with a tiny piece of Mandarin orange. The sauce resembles like the sweet and sour sauce but instead of it being a little bit sour, it's zesty (Orange Zing) and sweet. Chowking Orange Chicken is served with a big bowl of rice and priced at 84php.

B.) A new addition to Harbour Dimsum (SM City Cebu Branch) Menu is the chili steamed rice. Priced at 65php, I find it overflowing with sauce that's too chili for me to handle. Would not bother to order this again and stick to the same old same old yummy steamed rice!

C.) Call me a looser for discovering Shawarma Rice just now, hahahhaa! But yeah, my first spoon and I instantly fell in love with it! Leylam Shawarma Rice is available at Parkmall Mandaue City priced at around 60php. The rice was beefed up and topped with a generous amount of cabbage, carrots, beans and beef then drizzled with special Shawarma sauce. yum!

Tsim Sha Tsui

Restaurant: Tsim Sha Tsui
Address: 1st Level Terraces Ayala Center Cebu
Food: Dimsum, Chinese
Restaurant Type: Casual Dining
Mode of Payment: Cash/Card

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Tsim Sha Tsui is a major tourist hub in metropolitan Hong Kong, a great place to shop and dine!On the other hand, Tsim Sha Tsui restaurant is trying to capture the authentic Hong Kong taste that is unique to urban TST, a great challenge indeed for the restaurant. Once you enter the restaurant, you'd notice the TST designed wall and the conveyor belt that is commonly seen in Japanese restaurants. The well lighted restaurant has a motiff of vibrant pink and green which reflects colorful TST living.


It was past 9 and after a 2 hour workout, I was hungry as a bull! Shakey, Edd and I ordered dimsum favorites Shao mai Quail Egg (60php) , Empress Roll (60php) , Ha Kao(65php), Fried Hainan Spring Roll (60php). What you'd notice in the taste is that they use less MSG than the leading dimsum place in Cebu.

Hainan Spring Roll or chinese vegetable spring roll resembles more like the Vietnamese spring roll at Lemongrass which has glass noodles and veggies.

TST Steamed Rice (65php) has more meat but is of smaller serving size than the usual dimsum serving. TST Steamed Rice is also unique among other steamed rice for it has liver bits.


Drinks are as happy as the interior. Ordered the Kiwi Iced Tea(50php), Lemon Iced tea with Kiwi Syrup at the bottom. As for my brother Edd, he had the Strawberry Fantasy(70php) which was a fusion of strawberry and pineapple. Both yummy drinks!

Golden Bowl Dimsum Express

Restaurant: Golden Bowl Dimsum
Address: Sm Foodcourt
Food: Dimsum
Mode of Payment: Cash

Started 1997, Golden Bowl Dimsum Express was invited by SM Foodcourt tenant. Golden Bowl is a sister restaurant of Golden City Dimsum, "Bowl" for the smaller store and "City" for the big one.

Served were Steamed Rice, Fried Wanton and Pork Siomai. Golden Bowl Steamed Rice was created by Hong Kong Chef Chi Keung Leung.

Golden Bowl Express Dimsum claims to have the best tasting Steam Rice in Cebu. Decide for yourself by visiting them at SM City CEbu Foodcourt.

Harbour City Dimsum

Restaurant: Harbour City Dimsum

Branch: Ground Level SM City Cebu

Restaurant Type: Fastfood

Food: Chinese Dimsum

Mode of Payment: Cash/Card

After Sunday bowling session with my family and friends, we chowed on some dimsum as requested by my nephew Lenard. Cebuanos just love MSG! Harbour City has been loved by Cebuanos as far as I can remember. My brother Reymond just adores Harbour City, as well as his son CJ. Though service is a bit slow and dawdling, Cebuanos still are fond of the MSG filled Dimsum dishes!

We always start our Harbour City meal with Steamed Rice (Price: 60php). My Favorite Empress Roll (Siomai Rolls wrapped in Cabbage, Price: 60php ) dipped in ginger sauce just makes you crave for another serving. My brother Edd's siomai pick is the bacon rolls(Price: 60php). As for the kids, they love Quail's Egg Siomai (Price: 60php).

Fried dished like Shrimp balls, crab pincers and spring rolls (Price: 60php per serving) are also a big hit amongst our family members.

Growing up in a family that uses MSG in the kitchen, Harbour City food is just nostalgic. Though our family has now been avoiding using and eating at restaurants that uses MSG, we still would agree to dine at Harbour City Dimsum once in a while. heheheehe.