Places to eat in City of Manila

If you’re looking for a place to eat delicious food at a very affordable price then Waiying is the place to be!

Waiying fasfood is a small place that has 2-floors that’s why usually it’s full of people and you have to wait for a while to have your own table. Don’t think about the ambience; just think about the food and your stomach.

Favorite Dish: My favourite here are the Nai-Cha (milk tea) and Hakaw.

Waiying’s Nai-cha is very tasty! It has a very strong tea taste and has a minimal amount of milk. I have tasted different kinds of Nai-cha, but still Waiying’s is the best for me until now. It only costs 50Php.

Hakaw is a soft dumpling with a shrimp inside. It’s very delicious especially when you dip it into soy sauce with chilli.

when i want something healthy i go to a vietnamese restaurant. there are plenty of vegetarian options from their menu - from spring rolls, to tofu to vegetable soup. they only have a small shop in SM, so it's naturally quieter than bigger restos. service is good. price is just right.

Favorite Dish: vegetarian soup - it's hearty and healthy.

Max's Restaurant is my favorite chicken restaurant. Chicken is juicy and tender. Tasty up to the last bite!

Each restaurant has a homey appeal with darkwood furniture, leather seats and brick walls. The original restaurant in Quezon City dates back to 1945. Most Pinoys celebrate baptismal parties and even hold wedding receptions and meetings here.

It's so popular among Pinoys that they even have branches in San Francisco, Glendale and Sacramento!

On their website below, click on menu (left side) and click on the folder-like menu folder (right side) that opens up for you to see the list of food items.

Favorite Dish: Half chicken is P150
Quarter chicken with rice, pancit (noodles) or spring rolls P130-170, iced tea included.

Kare-kare (oxtail with vegetables cooked in peanut sauce - served with shrimp paste)
Halo-halo for dessert (jackfruit, custard, yam, banana slices with milk and crushed ice)

The fastest and the largest fast food chain in the country. Jollibee has over a hundred stores in the whole Philippines and branches at San Francisco and Hong Kong. This food chain was established to be a burger chain, our country's answer to Mc Donald's.

Funny, what started as a burger chain, now considers chickenjoy (fried chicken) to be its bestseller.

They deliver too!

Favorite Dish: chickenjoy, of course!
strawberry sundae
junior champ with cheese
peach-mango pie
longganisa meal for breakfast

You can eat to your choice. I would not advise to go with local food right away. Can work with special diets. Great fresh foods, Seafoods, Outback for Steaks, BBQ on the Beach!

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Favorite Dish: Best food here is the food you catch yourself!

Imagine off a island in some shallows and spear gunning for your dinner.

Add spices and locals dishes, rice of course and grill him up on the beach with some Ice Cold San Migs! The local Beer.

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I didn't know about this restaurant at first but it was the restaurant that I will be having a VT meeting with Aida, Lara, Monina and TeAnne.

It was raining cats and dogs in Manila when I got there so I asked the waiter if I can just wait inside the restaurant. He was very polite and led me to a huge table. He asked me if how many people will be there in a meeting. I said I didn't know but by the looks of it, it might be few because of the weather.

Since I had been waiting for a while, I ordered a freshly brewed coffee and while drinking, I had the chance to observe and look at the restaurant. The ambience is pretty nice: I can hear customers laughing and having fun; some of the guests are outside eating and drinking as there are tables there (covered of course); the tables are neatly arranged and the waiters are courteous and polite.

When Aida and Lara arrived, they decided to order as they already know which food to order. We ordered the family-style as we didn't know who else were coming. First came the soup (lomo-lomo). It was delicious! Then the bangus (fish) but you can't tell it's fish because the meat of the fish was shredded and fried and made it crunchy.

There was also the rice and the pinakbet (Iloco dish) which was my favorite! It is a mixture of different local vegetables (eggplant, squash, okra, onions, tomatoes, bitter curd, ginger, etc and mixed with shrimp paste). We also ordered chopsuey (Chinese dish with different kinds of vegetables: carrots, shallots, onions, cabbage, bell pepper, celery, cauliflower, etc).

The dishes were all delicious!

For dessert, I ordered the iced "gulaman" (It's like a bubble tea). TeAnne ordered "halo-halo" (mixed desserts).

Favorite Dish: I personally loved the "pinakbet". I basically finished all my rice with it! Love, love it not because I am from Ilocos but it's because it was cooked great!

We were treated by our Korean boss to this place. It's sort of a high-end Filipino restaurant catered to foreigners (Adriatico's a tourism hub in Manila). We had the usual local fare. We had crispy crablets, shrimp, sinigang na bangus (milkfish cooked in sour broth and veggies), grilled fish, bamboo rice, alique rice, eggplant ensalada.

The restaurant offers pretty much all Filipino dishes, so it's not a real big deal to me. But our Korean boss enjoys dining there. She usually brings her Korean visitors to this resto, even our Korean big boss goes there regularly.

Favorite Dish: All the local dishes I mentioned above are my favorite!

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Most people go to Ying Ying Tea House to see if its foods are comparable to the now gone President Restaurant in Binondo. Perhaps because it is being touted as the new President, expectations of diners are high...Well, we were not impressed. Food wasn't bad; it wasn't fantastic either. My family liked my cooking better than its Beef with Oyster Sauce; the lemon chicken was tough (ugh!); shrimps with cashew was quite bland; Chinese friend rice was okay; Nido soup was fine.

Favorite Dish: No particular favorite.