The Tatler Dining Guide Philippines
Red Lantern
WHY GO
If you want a less busy fine Chinese dining experience, this is the place. Good choices of superior ingredients while also offering eat-all-you-can dim sum for bigger appetites.
TATLER TIPS
They serve a selection of teas including the fermented Pu erh imperial digestive black tea. Good to share, the dong po style pyramid pork belly with mantou is a generous serving of stewed style belly strips formed into—what else—but a pyramid. The truffle-infused hakao or shrimp dumplings come in a formal gilded wrapper with black and gold food colours. Succulent and crisp to the bite. The truffle essence combines well with the freshness of the shrimps. Fried prawns in salted egg. Enough said. This is one of the best in Manila! Fresh prawns lightly battered and coated with salted egg and fried to a gentle crisp.