The Tatler Dining Guide Philippines
Benjarong Thai Restaurant
WHY GO
Thai cuisine wondrously mixes sweet, sour, spicy, and salty, making the mouth water at the thought of it. Benjarong is a marvellous showcase for this, bar none.
TATLER TIPS
• The fresh spring rolls with chicken, glass noodles, mint, and basil are a healthy starter.
• The chicken, galangal, lime, and mushrooms in coconut milk soup is a great alternative to tom yum.
• The pomelo salad with chicken and shrimp in roasted chilli paste is an unavoidable temptation.
• The massaman beef curry with cashews, potatoes and onions, the steamed lapu-lapu in coriander, lime, chilli and garlic, the water chestnut and tapioca pearl pudding; one can wax eloquent about these Thai staples, but high-flown language will not beat the actual tasting of each and every one.