Cycle 5 – Item 13
14 (Fri) November 2014
White Pepper Lobster
3.5
at Tao Yuan
-Malate, Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines-
with KKH, LHS
KH & HS Come to Town (Day 1)
- Day 1 (5.313 White Pepper Lobster)
- Day 2 (5.314 Pusit Adobong)
- Day 3 (5.315 Scallops)
HS and KH are in town! Just to hang out over the weekend. My first visitors since I’ve relocated here ten months ago (not counting W, kids, Dad).
TEITY (see Try Every Item at Tao Yuan) (Visit 20) (Items 104-105). Eating my way through the restaurant’s entire menu: all 222 items.
Tried 2 new items tonight, bringing the total to 105 items tasted thus far, 117 items remaining, averaging 5.25 items per visit, on pace to finish at TEITY 43.
For the welcome dinner, the venue had to be Tao Yuan. To ensure a good meal, I went mostly with previously tried items, including Sauteed Mix Mushrooms in XO Sauce and Seafood Hofan. Though the spread didn’t advance TEITY in the immediate sense, it did provide an opportunity to retry certain dishes to confirm that they would be appropriate choices when I organize a dinner party here for colleagues. I also splurged on a lobster, prepared in the white pepper sauce; better than the crab, but still a pain to eat; I’ll experiment with prawns next time. In any event, they seemed to enjoy the food.
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