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I just wanted to quickly talk about our last meal, which was possibly one of the most interesting and delicious we had eaten in a whole month. It was traditional, innovative, and delicious at the same time.

On a tip from our homie Theo, we went to Greenbelt 3, to Sentro, which claims it pioneered new Filipino cuisine. This is what we ate:


Queso Puti (carabao cheese), covered in breadcrumbs and fried and served with cream and chili sauces.

Ukoy with delicate shreds of camote and kalabasa and shrimp.


And then, corned beef sinegang. No, not out of the can, as we thought, but with rich, beefy, and sumptuous threads of tender corned beef and shank, with just-tender sitao, onions, sili and tomato. Can you believe that when you order this, they bring you a tiny coffee mug of sabaw so that you can judge whether it's sour enough or not?




And then, to finish, a cold, crispy and creamy halo-halo, rich with ube helaya, chunks of leche flan, nata de coco, sweet beans, freshly crisped pinipig, and shaved ice.

This meal covinced us to come back next year!