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| - Okay hopefully my request to fix the name of this restaurant goes through...and maybe someday someone will explain what a Binalot is...in the meantime I plan to go back for sure!
We decided to do a massive group lunch for work and we went without knowing what we were getting into...I think there was approximately 25-26 of us...
We were seated at a super long table covered in banana leaves and the staff were in the middle of putting soup down at each place setting. As we drank up the light but flavourful broth soup they dropped scoops of rice in a line down the middle and it just got crazier from there.
There were slices of pork, beef, bbq chicken, hard boiled eggs, tomato wedges, roasted eggplant, whole tilapia, chunks of another kind of fish I never got the name of, and glass noodles.
The dipping sauce bowls we each got turned out to be adobo sauce which is like an acidic soysauce, delicious with the handfuls of stuff.
The chicken was amazing and i could have eaten a whole one, the noodles were tasty, and everything was just outright delicious (except the whole eggs which I didn't try - I don't really like eggs outside of certain preparations usually done by myself or mom).
The fun part about all this was you picked up with one hand (your 'clean hand') and you ate with the other...it was messy, fun, and an amazing experience. The flavours were fantastic, though the whole tilapia was interesting...after a while it tasted the way an aquarium smells but it was delicious anyway - just something to get used to. Isn't that the best part of food? Experimenting with things you'd never think you'd enjoy eating and finding out you love it?
I can't wait to go back!
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