You would be hard pressed to find a good Filipino restaurant in Manila. Most Filipino restos are simple ihaw-ihaw (grilled food) or mediocre fare served in a large family-style setting. Well, my sister and I discovered an exceptionally good one in the Mall of Asia, called KKK (named after a secret society founded in the late 1800's called Katipunan). Everything we ordered except one dish (the Garlic Squid) was superbly cooked and presented. My favorite is the Buro at Talong (buro is a process of preserving food by fermentation with vinegar, lemon or salt, in this case, the dish was made of shrimp buro). Although the dish is meant to be a salad and is made with fermented rice and shrimp I still ate it with additional steamed rice. The buro went perfectly with grilled slices of eggplant and topped with a chiffonade of greens. Others we tried - Vegetarian Sisig, Binagoongan Baboy (pork stewed in shrimp paste) and the disappointing Garlic Squid. Can't wait to go back and try the rest of the menu!
2 recipes for buro:
Balo-Balo
Tagilo
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