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Ongpin / Chinatown

Duration : Whole day, around 5 to 8 hours

 

Budget : Depends how many hopia and tikoy you’re going to buy, Php500 could work out

 

Bummers : Don’t go there on a Sunday or Holiday, lots of stores are closed


You’ve never been in Ongpin if you haven’t forced your way through a crowd of avid customers just to get your hands on an Eng Bee Tin hopia..

 

People for Hopia

People for Hopia

 

You don’t have to go out of Metro Manila to find the best buys of great Chinese food at affordable prices. Chinatown, which is located along Ongpin in Manila, is one of the best dining destinations within the metro. Enter food haven in Ongpin.

 

Welcome to Chinatown

Welcome to Chinatown

 

From a warm bowl of noodles to a creamy bar of Melona (which I thought was only available from Kogi in Eastwood Mall), Chinatown has it all. Chinatown even has its own Starbucks which unfortunately does not serve any dumplings if that’s what you have in mind right now. :)

 

If you plan to go foodtripping in Chinatown, don’t make a noodle house your first stop. You won’t be able to eat anything else because you will immediately feel full when you finish one serving of Special Noodles.

 

What to do? What to do?

 

Visit Binondo Church.

 

Eat noodles and siopao. Masuki’s Chicken-Beef-Wanton noodles is the complete noodle soup that you can order. It has everything on it from soft strips of chicken, sweet braised beef, and sumptuous wanton dumplings. It is a very hearty soup that is really filling.

 

Chicken-Beef-Wanton Noodles

Chicken-Beef-Wanton Noodles

 

Siopaos

Siopaos

 

Take a picture in one of the many purple firetrucks in front of Eng Bee Tin’s store.

 

Buy all the hopia and tikoy that you can from Eng Bee Tin because when you get home, the basketful of goodies you got is never enough.

 

Tikoy Rolls

Tikoy Rolls

 

Spread some awesome..ness.. :D


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Tags: desserts, food, hopia, noodles, tikoy, trip

  1. Ginell
    October 27th, 2010 at 12:53 | #1

    OMG TIKOY ROLL!!! LOVELOVELOVE!!! <3

    Awesome post! I approve! b(^_^)d

    • October 27th, 2010 at 14:40 | #2

      Haha..Thanks.

      Spent lots of tissue rolls for this. :D

  2. wil mendoza
    November 1st, 2010 at 09:53 | #3

    mukhang masarap at nakakabusog yung Chicken-Beef-Wanton Noodles! ginutom ako dun! hehe. sobrang gusto ko yung eng bee tin hopia :)

  3. November 1st, 2010 at 10:46 | #4

    di ba maraming hopia jan? Or noodles?

  4. juanito see
    March 8th, 2011 at 08:16 | #5

    Eng Bee Tin Ube hopia has artificial food colors and is banned by US FDA under import alert 45-02 per web page :
    http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cms_ia/importalert_118.html

    Artificial food colors are derived from coal tar.

    • March 8th, 2011 at 09:05 | #6

      Really? That’s just disappointing..
      Thanks for the info! :)

  5. isabel
    December 14th, 2011 at 09:40 | #7

    Update: Meron na rin Masuki sa SM Megamall. :D

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