Three-way Peking Duck at Hai Shin Lou

My aunt from the US is here and she loves Peking Duck. When she was here last year, one of her friends brought her to a really good Peking Duck place in Pasay Road, so this trip, she invited us to Hai Shin Lou on Pasay Road, so we could try it too.

Our family loves duck.

We went on a Saturday night, so I called for a reservation and I made sure that you don't need to pre-order the Peking Duck. When we arrived, the restaurant was quite busy, but I think there were enough vacant tables that you can just walk-in.

This place immediately gets a stamp of approval because t
hey serve wanton chips and they kept refilling the plate.  Hooray.

We were a small group because it was just our family and two aunts, both from the US so we ordered one whole Peking Duck served three ways, chicken for Sofia (who like her duck roasted) and Ady (she's the only one in our family who doesn't eat duck) and we balanced the meal by ordering a lot of vegetables.

The only sad part about the duck is it doesn't come with the head.

My dad's favorite part of the duck is the head.
Jumbo Seafood, Singapore
April 2012

The servers carve the duck skin, and wrap it in the pancake.

These are super yummy, except that since the pancake is all wrapped up,
it becomes very inconvenient to scrape the fat from the skin,
so you just end up eating it.
In hindsight, that's probably why it's really good.

We asked for the duck meat to be served in two more ways, minced to be wrapped in lettuce leaves, and the rest cooked with salt and pepper. I think there is also an option to have it served as soup.

Minced duck meat with Lettuce

This is really yum (and it sort of feels health-ier too).

It's the first time we tried Salt and Pepper for the third way,
so it turns out that this is what they do with the bones.
My dad loved this.

In Singapore, they also cook it in Salt and Pepper,
but they only do it with the meat (second way).
Jumbo Seafood, Boat Quay

This was our other favorite dish.
The Homemade Tofu and Mushrooms was recommended by our server,
just ask for it, because it's not on the menu.

We also ordered Abalone, but this really isn't my cup of tea.

The White Chicken was served with the ginger sauce.
The pickled veggies that came with it was also good for removing umay.

This was the Kailan (Brocolli Leaves) with Oyster Sauce.
We ordered this to negate the fat from the duck. Hahaha.

We also had a small order of Yang Chow Fried Rice,
but this was barely touched.

Sofia's favorite part of this restaurant was, as usual, the fish! No we didn't order any. She just likes seeing the fish before they become food.

We saw these lobster looking things in their own containers,
because they like fighting with each other.

The real lobster.

Sofia loves shrimp. It's her favorite food.

I think we didn't take a picture of the fish,
but this is Sofia with the shrimp.

Since the restaurant was in Pasay Road, we ended our meal with dessert at Milky Way. As usual, I had to have my favorite Filipino dessert... and it's not Halo Halo.

I love Ginumis. It's similar to Halo Halo, but it's actually just sago and gulaman (tapioca and jello) with
 pinipig (crispies) and syrup (in Milky Way it comes in Ice Cream form)
in gata (coconut milk).

My sister and my aunt preferred Buko (coconut) Sherbet.

We asked them to split our orders in two, so these are actually only half of a normal serving.

That was really a good meal. I am not going to admit that after dessert at Milky Way, we went to Midnight Mercato, since we didn't really find anything interesting enough to buy anyway. I can't wait to go back to Hai Shin Lou for more yummy duck. just saying.

Hai Shin Lou Seafood King Restaurant

810 Arnaiz Ave (formerly Pasay Road) 

Makati City 

(02) 892 5148

Milky Way Cafe

Milky Way Bldg. 

900 Arnaiz Ave (formerly Pasay Road) corner Paseo de Roxas

(02) 8174042