After our Sunday lunch in Mantaro, Gwammy asked that we pass by Ha Yuan to buy some fresh tofu cakes. I used to frequent their store along West Avenue, but Kong reminded me that they were now located at a new address along Mother Ignacia St. near Timog Avenue. Their tofu and tokwa blocks are still the freshest ones this side of the city.
The carinderia style food counter is still around. They have plenty of Chinese dishes cooked home-style, and you can have your fill for around P200 per head. The maki-mi and cuapao used to be the highlights of many an afternoon merienda at their West Avenue store, and judging from the number of diners, I would assume that the quality of their food items has been pretty consistent over the years.
The lighting inside the restaurant, however, is pretty dark for me, and could well use a couple of strategically placed pin lights. As you can see in the pictures below, the room decor brings you back to the Hong Kong or Shanghai of some seventy or eighty years past. Could be a bit creepy for the uninitiated, but it's interesting for those who remember the fun eating in the Chinatown area in the sixties and seventies.
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