I didn't know Magic Wok offered fried chicken, and I'm wondering if you may have ordered Crispy Pata, which is.um.somewhat similar, except it's pork, and it's ankle-centric. I'm actually wounded to hear someone express displeasure with Magic Wok!! Greg, if you give it another shot, you must order Magic Wok's sisig, which is not only the best dish on the menu, but the best dish in the entire 40 degrees North latitude region.Īnd 50 degrees North, 60 degrees North, and heck, 30 degrees North too. If you do go, ask to speak to one of the older ladies or Maria (she's Hispanic, has been there for many years and is helpful). I don't know what Greg ordered-sounds like it could be the pinakbet? Greg, try the crispy pata, fried calamari, sisig, bihon, but I'm thinking if your taste buds are not like ours, you may not find anything there you'll like. BUT, that doesn't matter 'cause while the insane people are knocking down others at Black Friday sales, I may just try that 2 buck pancit. I patronize MW more now since the old ladies are more helpful but Goldilock's just seems cold-I don't get that nice, warm welcoming feeling. Even when they moved from the left side to the right of the same center, I preferred it over MW 'cause the young ones there were too snotty. I too used to go to the former locations on Pioneer and miss the homey feeling. The chicken, while pretty crispy was pretty bland and we had no idea what else to order.Īnd with the waitress not being helpful at all, we ordered this roast pork with shrimp paste sauce that was okay but salty as hell. Maybe I just don't know what to order but the last time you wrote about the fried chicken at Magic Wok I excited took a friend who was visiting from out of town down there. Man, I don't know what you're talking about with Magic Wok. We came back a few days later for it because we've never seen this meaty, saucy, and altogether satisfying mound of pork, fish and annatto-tinged wiggly noodles priced lower than $4. I still prefer Magic Wok's rendition, but this was a very decent, very capable dish all the same.ĭuring our meal we sat next to a poster that advertised that they had a $1.99 special on their pancit palabok (which I've described in previous posts as the Pinoy equivalent to pad Thai). On the pinakbet, there were the usual assortment of pork, shrimp, bittermelon, pumpkin, green beans, eggplant, all shellacked in a funky gravy laced with the stinky-salty fermented shrimp paste called bagoong. It was also the first time I saw taro in a restaurant sinigang, which is what I usually like to add in mine when I make it. There were more vegetable matter in this sinigang than there are in Magic Wok's. We ladled the soup and its boiled vegetable contents into our own bowls, spooned some of that broth to moisten our rice, dribbled patis (fish sauce) onto the pork after we scraped them off the bone, and then we ate and ate, and slurped and slurped that tamarind-flavored pork elixir like it was the first hot soup we had in years. We ordered the sinigang, some pinakbet and a big pot of rice. We stopped in to get a meal simply because we were in the area, and it turned out to be exactly the thing we needed-comfort food to sustain us and get our insides warm and cozy. For a long time, if there's a birthday, it's usually a Goldilocks Black Forest beneath the candles.īut this visit was different. My family and I had been going there since they were in a tiny location on Pioneer Street. Just at Denny's, they're here for sustenance. When you look around you get the sense the people who eat here aren't doing so because they're celebrating any sort of special occasion. But it is quite like America's chain diner in many ways-it's lit brightly and has a similar corporate polish behind it. Please don't take that last part as a knock against Goldilocks. I need you to be aware of Magic Wok-which is, in my opinion, the best Filipino restaurant outside of the Philippines-because I'm now about to write about Goldilocks, which is like the Denny's. So you've been to Magic Wok right? If you haven't yet, go! If you have no idea what I'm babbling about, look to the right and read up on the multiple posts I've written on the place.
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