Maynila Pop Up ft. Le Happy Chef

Maynila is a fairly new organisation that host different Filipino food events, from pop up restaurants to street food. Their first pop up restaurant was on the 23rd of May at Maida Hill Place in Westbourne Park. The chef for the night was Rex De Guzman and since we had been to his own ‘Taste of the Philippines’ pop ups and loved them (you can read more about them here and here) my sister and I decided to attend this one as well.

The menu for the night consisted of the starter: Pork Sisig – fried pig head terrine with sriracha mayonnaise, quail egg and pickled ginger with radish; the main course: Chicken Adobo sa Gata – chicken adobo with chilli and coconut cream with kangkong, chayote, crispy garlic and chilli oil, served with jasmine rice; and finally for dessert: Leche Flan – set caramel custard and turon  with calamansi and lime sorbet. Even though it was not really a dish, my favourite food on the night was the little tocino and pinakbet crostini that we had as we came in. I loved the tocino flavour and I thought it was amazing that you could even taste the crackling (I think that’s what it’s called – which I love.) My sister and I had such a wonderful meal and I am excited for their next event.

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