6.117
2 (Sat) May 2015
Chimaek
2.5
at Chimaek
-Malate, Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines-
solo
Try Every Korean Restaurant in Ermita and Malate (30) (see all posts on TEKREM)
Surveying the Korean eateries, including those serving Korean-Chinese fare, located in the neighborhoods of Ermita and Malate, nearby work and home. Minimum of 1 dish per place. Currently 45 establishments. Though anticipating that most of the places will be mediocre, I look forward to exploring more of my environment.
Chimaek is a Korea pub/restaurant. Specializes in chimaek: fried CHIcken + MAEKju (beer).
The chicken was pretty good. The skin was a bit too hard/crusty for my taste (at some Korean chicken joints these days, I’ve been noticing that the skin – through some newfangled process/additive – comes out unnaturally hard/crusty, nearly to the point of being breakable). But otherwise okay.
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11 (Sat) April 2015
Fried Chicken
3.0
from Moiza
in my apartment
-Ermita, Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines-
solo
Try Every Korean Restaurant in Ermita and Malate (31) (see all posts on TEKREM)
This post covers two restaurants, same dish, different dates. I will do this more often to accelerate the completion of TEKREM.
Moiza is a Korean pub/restaurant. Specializes in variations of fried chicken. The name of the place means “let’s get together.”
The chicken was pretty good. Lightly battered, crispy, nicely seasoned, tasty. Marginally the best Korean-style fried chicken that I’ve had in Manila thus far.
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like the way of integrating the grapes’ ripening process into the map–nice!
you keep using the grape metaphor, which is appropriate, but i didn’t mean it that way. it’s just that purple stands out on multi-colored maps. though i guess maybe i chose green to signify that they’re not yet ready.
might be baking powder? It tends to add brittleness.
is that right? i never knew that. lesson learned!
“brittleness” is exactly what it is. i’ve noticed that in many fried chicken skins here in PHL. i don’t like it that much, but it has the benefit of keeping the skin from going soggy after awhile.