Food Trip! - Ding Qua Qua
i had it figured out in my head. 200 furious labor-inducing bike pedaling is equivalent to one dimsum. seventy pedals to a minute, total of forty minutes and that would be 2,800 pedals divided by 200 and i'd have made enough space for 14 dimsum dumplings. blame it on Kung Fu Panda, but today visions of dimsum fueled my craving for lunch. dimsum platter: pork siomai, quail egg, mushroom and shrimp before the Grand Majestic Chinese Buffet, Ding Qua Qua is a favorite joint for my MSG fix. They specialize in dimsum and dumplings but their JY Square place offer buffet lunch (Php 188) with a pretty decent spread. I started off with Fungus Soup (for some reason Athlete's Foot kept popping in my head) that was surprisingly tasty and resembled bird's nest in texture and flavor. I got a portion of stir fried tofu and vegetables, a bit of pata tim, chinese roast pork and beef brisket. The chili sauce perked up an otherwise bland tofu whereas the beef brisket tasted like beef kaldereta...