These Filipino spring rolls tend to be filled with meat of some sort, so we had to give a shout out to this spot’s vegetarian (contains egg) truffled adobo mushroom lumpia
This rice cake is one of the most popular rice cakes in the Philippines and every morning almost all Filipinos have a chance of having one of this, the walking street vendors that strolls in the streets early morning on villages with their hand horn tirelessly sell these on a daily basis alongside puto
Chef Jason and his culinary team are bringing a melting pot of their favorite traditional dishes to the table, like pork tamales, cannelloni, lumpia (Filipino fried spring rolls), mashed potatoes and Chef’s spin on a “turducken
After this “Simbang Gabi” or “Misa de Gallo” everyone enjoys the most popular streetfood during this season, hot puto bungbong (purple sticky rice cooked in bamboo) and/or bibingka (a rice cake topped with salted duck eggs, margarine and cheese cooked on charcoal oven)
Most hotel bars have the most amazing in-house bands (I've noticed that somehow, they're almost always filipinos), so grab a nightcap, soak in the cool night sea breeze and dance the night away
There we were, two Arabs, a Cambodian and a Filipino, we drank wine, feasted on our free foie gras with caramelized onions and it ended up not being so bad
