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| Bangkok Noodles |
Whistlestop Restaurant opened in 1977 with a very
casual ambiance. The original owners closed it down in 2005, but good thing
that businessman Lex Ledesma and restaurateur Dennis Gan of the famed Oyster
Boy Group, decided to re-open Whistlestop Restaurant.
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| Whistlestop Restaurant |
Entering the restaurant is walking back in another time and space. It’s a hub
for travelers, akin to a chic train that travels from one city to the next.
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| Hainanese Chicken |
As for the food, Whistlestop offers Filipino comfort food, Asian dishes and
American fare. Hainanese Chicken is simple and unpretentious.
According to Chef Joseph Batoy” Proponggo, they tweaked this Singaporean dish
to the Filipino palate. The moist chicken was resting on a bed of white rice
and cucumber slices, garnished with a stalk of petchay and accompanied by a
soup and choices of three sauces – where the soy-based was my preference.
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| Mixed Sate |
Mixed Saté (another Asian dish, a version of barbecue
dishes) is served with Bagoong Rice, has four sticks of Saté – beef, pork,
chicken and shrimp. The best sauce for this is peanut sauce made up of ground
peanuts, curry powder, some spices and coconut milk.
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| Crispy Pancit |
The star of this dining experience for me is the
Crispy Pancit. I have been to a number of establishments and often, I get
disappointed whenever I order crispy noodles. Much to my delight that
Whistlestop is offering the kind of crispy noodles that I want at a fraction of
a cost from other Chinese restaurants. Chef Batoy prides that they use egg
noodles and the other ingredients are quite simple such as slices of carrots,
bell peppers, halved button mushrooms, cabbage, Chinese petchay and topped with
hard-boiled egg wedges then slathered with a thick, rich sauce.
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| Chocolate Cake |
While
there is still space in your expanding tummy, why not punctuate this enjoyable
journey with a delicious ending of this Chocolate Cake.
Just writing
this makes me want to rush to their restaurant located at Jupiter Street in
Makati City.
Photos captured by Mike
Caballes
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