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| - After seeing many pictures on Instagram of people eating food with their hands, I really wanted to check out Tinuno!
I recently came here for lunch with 3 of my friends. My friend made reservations beforehand. Upon arrival, the outside of restaurant was not too appealing and inviting but that did not shun me away.
Once inside the restaurant (which was not crowded at all) we were greeted by a girl and taken over to our table. The tables and chair seemed like they were donated to the restaurant because there were many mismatched chairs.
The girl wiped our table and then brought over the banana leaves. She unravelled the leaves and covered the entire table with it. Then she wiped the leaves.
Another woman came, but this time with food! We started off with a fruit and veggie salad along with 2 slices of blood orange. The salad consisted of shredded mango and carrots. Interesting mix.
And then, the garlic rice came. The smell of it was just amazing - personally I am not a fan of garlic -but they roasted tiny pieces of garlic and mixed it with the jasmine white rice. They placed the rice in the middle of the table and spread it out into a log shape. Over the rice, the woman placed the grilled seafood, vegetable and meat - there was an assortment of seafood: shrimps, mussels, squid, calamari, two types of fish: tilapia and milk fish, pieces of pork belly, chicken skewers bbq'ed with a slightly sweet sauce, eggplant, okra.
I liked the spread, and how they divided the food proportioned to the number of people at the table. Pretty much, we each got two of the mussels, one skewer, and 2 pieces of okra. The rest we had to divide ourselves.
The tilapia tasted a little funny and both of our milkfish were a tad bit too salty but edible.
My friend decided to order turon for us, which is a sweet dessert spring roll - inside was plantain. The spring roll was coated with a syrup on the outside. This was delicious!!
Overall, the experience was fun! But feel like it is one of those try one-time and never again type of experience.
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