Along Bagtikan St. in Makati, right off Pasong Tamo, you will find a nondescript Chinese restaurant call Mao Jia Hunan Cuisine. Beware, the food is spicy! If you are brave enough to bite into that fiery sensation, and adventurous enough to have beads of perspiration streaming down your cheeks, then the Hunan region's specialty foods will be a epicurean delight. Our trucker's meeting was held there a couple of weeks ago, and we started off with some sliced pork ears as our appetizer.
The pork soup was thick and spicy, and we ordered some plain vegetable omelette to balance off the spicy sensation (this was the only dish that was plain). Dishes came in streaming--pork intestines, hot pot eggplant, diced chicken and steamed tilapia. I finished one and half cups of rice. We were all sweaty, but the food was good.
It's a nice break to try Hunan food, especially if you always go to Cantonese or Hokkien style restaurants. Pricing is reasonable at around P600 per head (we had a good variety). You can down the food with cold Chinese beer and that would be just great. I understand that the place is very popular with visitors from the Chinese mainland, and while we were there, several other customers were conversing in Mandarin, which is a good indication that we were having authentic Hunan cuisine.
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