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| - HALO-HALO CHALLENGE 2013 - Contender #7
Lunch time at Seafood City on Maryland Pkwy and the place is packed with Pinoys. Seafood City has the grocery section in the back, but when you first enter, there is a Filipino food court to greet you, with Jollibee and Red Ribbon Bakery on the right and Chow King on the left; all three offer halo-halo, but we were here for Chow King's version. CK offers two sizes, the Classic for $4.25 and 710 calories vs. the King size at $7.25 and a whopping 1,360 calories--I hope that's for two people to share. Not that you should really be too concerned about calories when you have halo-halo, but when you're eating as much as we have, the numbers pop out ;)
Mel and I each had a classic size:
Present: azuki (red) beans, white beans, kaong, nata de coco, two scoops of ube ice cream, and macapuno. For the first time in 7 tries, this halo-halo also had saba, AKA, banana. There was one little piece of leche flan, too- more, please.
Missing: ube, langka, and pinipig. Also, the shave ice was not very shaved. In fact, it was quite chunky and we each had a huge piece of ice in our cups.
Overall, this was the least expensive version so far. 7 down, 3 to go!
*Tip: halo-halo is pronounced like the ha sound in "ha ha--funny funny, " not "hay is for horses." Just in case you want to go try it and impress the Pilipinos behind the counter.
Contender #1: http://www.yelp.com/biz/elenas-restaurant-las-vegas-2#hrid:66pT_yQvZudRThxlGl74Qw
Contender #2: http://www.yelp.com/biz/jollibee-las-vegas-2#hrid:ZSJzziWEVLyOF3DHfn1MaA
Contender #3: http://www.yelp.com/biz/caf%C3%A9-de-cebu-las-vegas#hrid:5iu3U4zoZWQISOSO7BMsGQ
Contender #4: http://www.yelp.com/biz/salo-salo-grill-las-vegas#hrid:Wgtkj97v8-l9MnNuyj-QxQ
Contender #5: http://www.yelp.com/biz/thelmas-filipino-restaurant-henderson#hrid:wzGAlZyBNi1UtDRM0t0oXw
Contender #6: http://www.yelp.com/biz/andreas-las-vegas#hrid:idKe5bOeuIwnyzcamgeUDg
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