- Hey everyone its Mark Wiens.
I am in Manila and one of the best places to eat in Manila
one of the most famous places for food is Chinatown.
And in Manila it's called Binondo
and so today I'm going to take you on a tour of Binondo
we're gonna eat some delicious Chinese-Filipino food
and just walk around and explore this vibrant,
and very interesting and fascinating area of Manila.
(upbeat music)
On our way first this morning to eat some dumplings.
Oh, hello fish bowls.
First place that we've come is
called Dong Bei Dumpling House.
This place is legendary for their dumplings
and they're, I can't think of a better way to
start the morning than with a plate of dumplings.
And so i just ordered a plate of their famous
kuchay and also pork dumplings.
And you just walk into this restaurant
and you can just smell the aroma of chives and pork.
I was gonna eat inside,
but actually they're playing kind of loud music in there
so I decided to just get it for take-away
and it's hot and fresh and steaming.
I added some chili oil they are still hot and steaming.
Oh yes fresh dumplings are hard to beat.
Oh and I already added a little bit of chili oil
uhm and then it's also served with I think
it's probably I think it's vinegar.
Usually these little sauce bags one of the best
methods to opening them is to bite the tail.
So that you get a little bit
oh that was like some air was released
that's very fragrant and garlicky.
Alright oh perfect.
I think this is if I can taste those fumes alright
I think this is vinegar and maybe soy sauce and garlic.
Okay perfect I'm going right for that
top dumpling right there.
Oh that's so fresh and so good and so juicy.
The wrapper has a little bit of a gummy texture to it,
but what I like is that it's not too thick
and it's not too thin it's right at that medium thickness.
So you can taste that you're eating noodle,
but at the same time it's not overly starchy.
And then the inside just kind of explodes with
that juice that pork, those chives
you want to soak up as much sauce as you can.
These are the type of dumplings you can eat a whole plate
just in seconds without even knowing it,
without even thinking about it they're so good.
And as much as I'd love to go have another plate
I think I'm gonna pace myself today for this food tour.
Something interesting about Binondo that
I really wanted to share with you
is that it is one of the oldest if not the
oldest established Chinatown's in the world.
And it dates back to 1594 when the Spaniards
set this area apart as an area for the Chinese
to settle which is across the river the Pasig River
from Intramuros which is the Spanish area
of colonial rule in Manila in the Philippines.
We've only been walking around for a little bit,
but Mika is getting hungry so we've decided
to stop off and eat lunch, an early lunch.
This is a whole strip of restaurants which
is right along the canal.
They have all sorts of Chinese food,
Chinese-Filipino food here you can order seafood,
you can order lots of stir-fry dishes
and then I was watching him as he cooks and
he is a master at the wok.
Igniting the oil and the sauces
and then just putting all the dishes together
I ordered a couple of different dishes
one of the things that I really wanted to try here
is their fried frog legs.
So I got the fried frog legs.
They're also known for their buttered chicken
which I have no idea the only buttered chicken I know of
is Indian-styled buttered chicken.
So this is gonna be a first for me
and then I also got a dish of stir-fried vegetables
with seafood and then also it's squid which is
stuffed with I think it's stuffed with chives.
So let's start with the fried frog legs since they're
sitting right before me.
Here's a nice leg down here and it is
breaded, coated and then deep-fried.
Going in just like a drumstick.
Oh the bone came off with that pull
oh wow that's pretty salty.
Very salty and quite oily, but really, really crispy.
And it has that crispiness that sort of tastes like
maybe cornstarch rather than just flour.
It sort of has a grainy crispiness to it.
Next up I'm gonna try the stuffed squid
and you just check out this cross section.
It's just filled with oh that sauce is gooey.
That tastes almost exactly how it looks.
You've got the tender, yet slightly rubbery squid
and then yeah those are definitely chives
they have the chewy texture to them and
really, really fragrant and really juicy.
One of their specialties here is the buttered chicken
and ooh is that butter on the bottom there?
There's a little pool of something on the bottom there
and I can see garlic and that must be the butter.
Let me go in for a little bit more of that butter sauce
if I'm gonna eat butter chicken
I don't want to skimp on that sauce.
Oh yeah that looks pretty buttery
and that appears to be garlic as well.
Alright.
Yeah, that is extremely buttery
fried chicken soaked in butter.
Let's just say if you love butter
you're gonna love this dish.
And then the final dish is the mixed vegetables
with seafood there is shrimp in here
there are there might be some or maybe it's mostly shrimp,
but there might be some squid in here,
yeah little pieces of squid as well.
That's good and simple not too salty actually
the vegetables are not too salty.
Their style of cooking is very saucy
so its almost like a soup of sauce.
I'm gonna grab another piece of frog and
this time I'll dip it into this tomato
or maybe chili sauce.
Oh I can eat that whole piece despite
there being bones in it.
That's like a sweet and sour sauce
that does go well together because
it kind of cuts the saltiness of the frog.
The food was okay I didn't really like the
fried dishes that much as they were
pretty oily and heavy on the breading
and the ingredients didn't taste all that fresh,
but it was a nice enough place to sit.
I like the breezy environment under the tree.
We are now off to walk around and explore
more of Binondo hopefully get some snacks.
And actually I would just like to say that Binondo is such a
nice place to explore it's actually very charming.
And it has a, oh I gotta move,
whoa that's a lot of mung bean noodles,
but it's very charming it has a really
friendly nice feel to it
and it's actually quite, at least this time that we're here
it's quite calm and not too busy
and it's quite clean as well.
Uh just a normal market
I came in here mostly to get their signature hopia.
Which one is their signature one?
The hopia, alright this is what I'm getting
right here with mung bean pastry.
Actually Ying bought quite a few snacks,
but I just went straight for their classic mung bean hopia.
And it is heavy you can feel how solid that is
wrapped in paper you could lift weights
with this mung bean pastry.
I didn't grab a,
oh it's cut into pieces already okay.
Here we go they're like into little hockey pucks.
I almost took a bite, I barely noticed
the little wax paper on the bottom
which I'm assuming you don't eat
let me pull of that wax paper.
It's a little bit dry and very dense
oh it's good though.
The mashed up mung beans on the inside which are
sweet and starchy it's kind of like
a really heavy cookie.
It kind of has that texture,
kind of that sticky texture kind of like peanut butter
where it kind of sticks to the roof
of your mouth a little bit.
It's kind of hard to talk.
- Hi it is so nice to see you
I'm a fan of your channel.
- Thank you Thank you.
Are you from Manila?
- Yes I am from Manila from Binondo.
- We were just eating that pastry at Ho-Land
and met up with Nathan.
- [Nathan] Hello.
- What's up Nathan?
- [Nathan] Hi
- And you live in Binondo?
- I live right over there.
- Cool, cool and so he is accompanying us to our
next place to eat.
- [Mark] So this is called New
- [Nathan] New Po Heng.
- New Po Heng and these are actually
like the size of mini burritos they're pretty big.
There are a number of different things in here
she added I saw lettuce, I saw peanut powder,
what was the darker powder?
- [Nathan] Oh that is seaweed (inaudible)
- Seaweed okay like dried seaweed powder?
- Mhmm.
- And then the main vegetable mixture is?
- Cabbage and bean curd and carrots.
- [Mark] Cabbage and bean curds and carrots.
Okay and so then they wrap it up into this
and it's all vegetarian as well.
So it's all vegetarian it's a pretty good size.
Let's take a look at the cross section
oh wow look at all those vegetables
alright Nathan squeeze some sauce
on oh it's very like thick.
More? Uh that's okay.
- This sauce it almost has the consistency of honey.
Alright cheers man. Cheers.
Oh yeah, really just packed full of vegetables
it has that very contrast of salty to sweet to it.
There I think the peanut powder is a little sweet
and then also the sauce yeah it tastes like
peanut butter like a dry crumbly peanut butter
and then also the sauce its sweet,
but then the vegetable mixture is more on the salty side.
This is a Chinese type of fresh spring roll
and they have it all across Southeast Asia.
I've had it in Singapore and Thailand popiah,
but I have to say that this is one of the best versions
I've ever had the ingredients,
the balance of flavor, really, really nice.
Okay next up we are walking along with Nathan
and his fiancee I think we're gonna
go get some fried buns, fried siopao.
This place has no name
so luckily Nathan escorted us here
and they have a lot of Chinese snacks and
different little dessert and shumai and different things,
but we came here mainly for the baos
and you can actually feel in that bag
how kind of fluffy and how soft the bun is.
Mmmm.
Wow that is awesomely good, that is delicious.
The bread is so pillowy, so airy and pillowy
and then it has some water chestnuts in there
I can taste the crunchiness of the water chestnuts.
There are some green onions in there,
it has a sesame flavor and a black pepper flavor as well.
Even though it looks kind of big,
it's so fluffy that you can eat the whole thing
in a couple of bites.
And I love that layer between meat and bread
where it's kind of gooey and
just absorbed all of the flavor.
One of the most legendary or maybe infamous dishes
that you have to eat when you come to Binondo,
oh you don't really have to eat it.
It's called soup number five we got two
different soups one of them is black chicken soup
and that is not the soup number five.
This one is the soup number five,
but the black chicken soup also looks awesome
and it smells delicious.
This is the legendary soup number five
which is a cow or bull, is it bull?
- [Nathan] Bull.
- Okay bull penis and bull testicles
and that whole kind of region chopped up
into bite sized pieces and made into a soup.
So this is very famous in Binondo to eat.
Alright, and can you get this in
other parts of Manila as well or
is this mostly in Binondo?
- I've always had it in Binondo
I'm not sure if it's available somewhere else.
- Okay, there's some ginger, there's some go gi berries,
and it has, it smells very like cinnamon.
It has a cinnamon aroma to it and
very Chinese herbal aroma to it.
Wow it's really, really good.
Oh it's really, really good.
It's like, it tastes like concentrated herbs
it kind of tastes like a Chinese braised soup,
braised flavor and then should we go in for
some parts next okay lets take it right off that spoon.
And so you can eat that whole thing right there,
there's no bones or anything in it.
Alright, oh wow they are kind of slippery.
Alright, cheers man. Cheers.
It's really, really good.
It's actually the texture is exactly like tendon.
- Tendon, yeah.
- It's gelatinous, but at the same time
it's not chewy kind of like gummy.
The parts are good, but that broth is insane
it's so flavorful you can just taste
how it's just packed with herbs.
Let's go on to the black chicken soup next.
I'm going for that broth,
so is this a half, wow that's just a tiny chicken
it's almost like the size of a quail look at that.
- [Nathan] It's black.
- [Mark] And it is black alright lets taste the broth
and also black chicken is supposed to be very healthy right?
- Yes.
- It almost tastes like caramel when you have
that aftertaste, do you know what that could be?
- [Nathan] I'm not sure what that is.
- Okay, but a black chicken is supposed to be
a cure all in Chinese culture right?
Cure all for anything.
Actually lets just go in with our fingers.
Oh that's like really creamy.
It's incredibly delicious, it's so tender
you know it's probably been boiled for so long
that it just slips off the bone.
Look how clean that bone came off
with the cartilage and all.
You can eat the cartilage and all its very tender.
Do you think the black chicken has a different
- Flavor?
- Flavor I guess.
- A little.
- It's a little bit of a different flavor
- Slightly gamier.
- Slightly gamier, but you can definitely taste
that it is chicken though.
It kind of has that taste of a quail though.
- Or a pigeon.
- Or a pigeon.
I'm gonna go in for another bit of the gelatin goodness.
It's really good I'm actually
hugely impressed by soup number five.
Of everything I've eaten so far on this
Binondo, Manila food tour- soup number five
this is by far my favorite dish so far.
It's so good, it's so herbal.
This is my last piece right here.
That's one of the crunchy pieces
you get some many different textures
some parts are very gelatinous and
soft all the way through like tendons,
but some are crunchy like you know
when you eat a gizzard it has the same kind of
crunch that kind of like weird crunch.
Thank you.
Don't let the ingredients of soup number five
through you off.
It's truly a winner of a soup.
I thoroughly enjoyed that.
And I'm feeling very strong and very healthy
after eating that as well.
(speaking Filipino)
This is just a really small restaurant on the corner
and what's the name of this place?
- 899.
- 899, what are we gonna eat here Nathan?
- [Nathan] Uh, pork tongue Pork tongue.
And large and small intestines.
- Awesome and it's braised?
- It's braised.
- Oh nice the tongue so it's braised,
it's sitting at the front and then you order it
and they just slice it into bite sized pieces.
What's in the sauce?
- It's soy sauce, vinegar, black vinegar and garlic.
- Oh okay, it looks amazing.
Just look at how meaty and and how beautiful that tongue is.
Oh wow, yeah that is amazing.
Tongue is just such a wonderful is it a meat?
Yeah it's a meat.
It's tender, but it's not overly tender,
but it has a little bit of texture to it.
It's not like stringy or anything like that
it doesn't have any kind of bizarre about it
being the tongue at all.
It just tastes like really the best of the best of meat.
Really tender, fleshy its a nice salty braised flavor
that they have on it and with that vinegar garlic sauce.
Oh wow, that is like a world class snack right there.
(woman speaking Filipino)
Oh and here comes the large intestines and
the small intestines they look like little shoots
and yeah you can definelty tell the
difference between the two.
These ones are much smaller in size.
Let's start with the small ones.
- [Nathan] The small ones.
- Small intestines these are my favorite.
That little shoot, that little hose.
You wanna get some good sauce on this,
how's that- oh yeah.
They're not even rubbery though
they are very tender, very, very tender.
Very, very kind of smooth they have more.
I can't stop, it's something you can't stop
you just want to keep on eating it.
And they are well cleaned as well
so you don't have any kind of foul taste at all
they're just really well cleaned.
Look at that, that's almost like a
yeah you can actually see through the hole
okay let's dip that.
Wow, that's also delicious it has a totally
different texture while the small intestines
are more of a little rubbery
the big intestines are kind of creamy and fattier.
It's a little fattier.
Mika we finished off all of those intestines
and that tongue.
Thank you very much.
That was very good, thank you.
After finishing all that food on that Binondo
Filipino Chinese food tour we just came back
to this is an apartment that Ying and I are
renting here in Manila that was an amazing
food tour and it was great to
it was actually completely random
Ying and I went to Binondo this morning
and I just had a list of restaurants
and places that I wanted to go and
we were gonna just kind of walk around and
explore and find things out on our own,
but luckily we bumped into Nathan and
completely by chance and not only is he from Manila,
but he's from right in Binondo.
So he knows everywhere in Binondo
so he took us to some special spots that he likes,
uh and I have to admit soup number five
was the best thing of the whole day.
That was my favorite food of the whole day
so when you're in Manila don't forget and
don't miss taking a food tour in Binondo
and it's a great place to visit.
Thank you all very much for watching this
food tour video hope you enjoyed it
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