Kanzhu

Monique, Vicky and I found ourselves stuck for lunch at the San Juan area, and we opted to try the Kanzhu noodle shop along Jose Abad Santos St.  It was a strange thing to look for hot noodles soup on a hot summer day, but the Chinese food craving brought about by our HK trip must have had lingering effects on our system!  The restaurant was formerly occupied by the Beijing hand-pulled noodle shop, and because of the similarity in product, we thought it was still owned by the same group, albeit branded differently.  It turns out the the restaurant is a different altogether, and the food attendant was quick to point out that they had a wider menu offering than the previous building tenant.

We had a bowl of noodles each, and I quite liked their dry noodles with stewed lamb.  As expected, noodles were freshly made and were cooked al dente, firm but still gooey to the bite.  We also had a variety of dimsum items to fill in our hunger--Ha Kaw, radish cakes, and chicken feet (unfortunately this was a bit too sweet for my taste), and in addition, Monique and Vicky each had a tall glass of bubble tea!  We spent some P350 per head, and we came out of the restaurants with smiles on our faces!