Rolando’s Café @ Villa Caceres Hotel; Ushering the New Year with Delectable Chinese Dishes

Rolando’s Café  at Villa Caceres Hotel
Ushering the New Year with Delectable Chinese Dishes 

It was January 1, the first day of 2017 and

my family’s first dine out  for the new year.

 

Except maybe for mostly fast- food chains and mall based

restaurants, we are aware that most dining establishments

are closed as Filipinos traditionally stay home, because of

a superstition that spending on the  first day of the year is

bad luck- as one would end up penniless the whole year.

 

Everyone wanted to eat Chinese food, so we went directly to

Rolando’s Café at the Villa Caceres Hotel as the restaurant

is known to serve some of the best Chinese dishes in the city.

 

Rolando’s Café was located just across

the newly renovated Rose Garden which

was gaily decorated for the Christmas season,

 

 

…and we took advantage of having

some of our holiday photos taken.

 

We started our meal with Hot Prawn Saladfor an appetizer.

This was surprisingly very delicious. The deep fried prawn

was piping hot, lying in a bed of ice cold fruit salad and crisp,

fresh, green lettuce. I believe it was a Ying and Yang inspired

dish which resulted to a naturally perfect blending of contrary

forces, hot and cold, that deliciously complemented each other

The Mixed Seafood with Century Egg was beguilingly tasty.

The thick soup was delightfully reeking with eclectic flavors of

various seafood with a hint of the pleasantly rancid century egg.

Rolando’s take of our all time favorite Chinese dish,

Sweet and Sour Pork made of deep fried, tender pork

loin, with assorted fresh vegetables, bits and pieces of

pineapples, bathed with sweet and sour sauce, and topped

with spring onions, can only be described as nothing but

a culinary perfection and masterpiece of this popular dish.

The Ampalaya with Shrimp was intensely delicious.

The stir fried bitter gourd was not overcooked and very

fresh and crunchy. There was generous amount of plump

shrimps and bathed with sweet and savory black bean sauce.

I found the Roberto’s Fried Chicken

overcooked but still tolerably edible.

It was a full an satisfying meal, 

 

...just fitting for our first dine- out for the new year. 

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