MANILA, Philippines - Dusit Thani Manila offers its five flavors of Thai cooking at Benjarong. The menu includes fiery dishes prepared by chef Suwanna Puangdee. The dishes include mascha cup savoey (steamed ground lapu-lapu with red curry paste and coconut milk in banana cup), talay mok sawan (stir-fried mixed seafood with red curry paste), and mok song see (steamed ground lapu-lapu with green and red curry paste). Sample these dishes for lunch and dinner until Feb. 28.
For information, call 238-8888.
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Galapeño Tango at Yellow Cab Pizza
Yellow Cab Pizza offers its limited-edition food bundle called “Galapeño Tango.†Available at all Yellow Cab stores until April 30, Galapeño Tango features the unique combination of garlic Parmesan chicken wings, (choose from four, six and 12 full-sized pieces), and jalapeño potato wedges. Customers may also opt to try out each offering a la carte.
For 24/7 service, call 789-9999 or visit www.yellowcabpizza.com to order online.
P175 beef garlic ‘yaki’ at Nanbantei
Nanbantei offers its beef garlic yaki made with beef morsels infused with garlic skewered between sweet grilled leeks at just P175. Pork sausage with a tangy miso-mayo sauce at P150. Leba maki made with chicken liver wrapped in bacon at P140. The new tori karaage bite-sized morsels of chicken and a dipping sauce of ponzu, at P195. Nanbantei’s signature bestsellers include tebasaki (chicken wings), aspara maki (asparagus wrapped with pork), pork garlic yaki (pork with garlic flavor), tsukune (chicken meatballs) and yaki niku (grilled thin slices of beef), among others.
Nanbantei is on the third floor of Greenbelt 3, Ayala Center, Makati City, 757-4130 to 31 and upper ground floor, BHS Central Bonifacio Global City, Taguig, 621-3224 to 25.
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New café mocha at Pan de Manila
Pan de Manila offers its bestsellers cafe con leche, chocolate con leche, and chocolate blanco. The new product is its café mocha. Just add two tablespoons of Pan de Manila’s cafe con leche, chocolate con leche, or cafe mocha in a cup, then pour in hot water. Pan de Manila’s freshly baked pandesal are best paired with Pan de Manila’s spreads. Pan de Manila’s cafés come in elegantly designed, matte and glossy-finished tin cans, with a Vigan-inspired background.
Pan de Manila is open 24/7 all over Metro Manila, North and South Luzon, and Cebu.
For information, call 636-0468, e-mail pandemanila_jlg@yahoo.com or visit www.facebook.com/PandeManilaOfficial.
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Norwegian salmon ‘daing’ at Museum Café and Kabila
Raintree Restaurants’ Museum Café and Kabila offers breakfast dishes like US beef belly garlic tapa, daing na Norwegian salmon, bangus belly “bistek-style,†to name a few local flavors. The American selection features double-smoked bacon hash or beef hash with Riesling gravy served with a choice of three silver-dollar pancakes or toasted sourdough, poached eggs topped with hollandaise, and fresh orange wedges. The Chinese staples offered are noodles and congee (anise-scented beef, Hainan chicken or seafood) served with a choice of three pieces of shrimp dumpling, shark’s fin or siu mai.
Museum Café and Kabila’s breakfast offerings are available every day from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m.
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Fish explosion at Fishman Seafood Republic, Inc.
Fishman Seafood Republic offers its newest dish, fish explosion made with pinaputok na tilapia and served with ensalada and garlic rice.
Fishman Seafood Explosion is at the ground floor, One Technology Tower 31st St. Rizal Drive Global City Fort Bonifacio Taguig City, 808-3333.