Must Try: Xin Tian Di Dimsum Buffet

I've been looking through different food blogs I follow (Purple Doll, Cafe Mobility and Food Porn Junkies) and all of them had something in common, they talked about a Dimsum Buffet at Xin Tian Di at Crowne Plaza, Galleria Manila.
The Dimsum buffet was priced at 1,188.00 (excluding drinks), for the blog author behind Food Porn Junkies, he had a privilege card that cuts the price in half. Sumi Go of the Purple Doll had vouchers from Deal Grocer. Both drowned their dimsum buffet adventure with tea.

How to order: A a checklist with 55 food items composed of steamed, pan-fried & deep-fried, noodles, congee and desserts would be given, do indicate the number for if you don't, they would just give you one.
Here is what to expect from Xin Tian Di as taken from Food Porn Junkies:

Steamed Crystal Prawn Hakao

Steamed Siomai and Pork Dumplings

Chilli Dumpling

 Wanton Soup with Roast Duck

Steamed Xiao Bao Long Shanghai Style

Steamed Seafood Dumplings in Superior Stock

PHOTOS: FOOD PORN JUNKIES: http://www.foodpornjunkies.com/2012/01/26/dimsum-feast-at-xin-tian-di/





Siopao Madness at Gourmet Pao

I was walking with my mother at SM North Main Building and saw the stall of Gourmet Pao (owned by Mikaela Lagdameo-Martinez), the stall was not extraordinary but what attracted me to stare at it for quite some time is the KC Pao. 

KC-PAO (photo courtesy of Gourmet Pao's FB Fanpage)

KC-PAO is a siopao named after KC Montero. It costs P 720. It is 6 siopaos combined in one which can be sliced to at least 12 slices to be shared to others particularly when you are in the party. 

(photo courtesy of Gourmet Pao's FB Fanpage)

I would like to try their wheat variant, surely Mikaela Martinez has thought of things for health buffs.