MANILA, Philippines - From Sept. 1 to 13, New World Manila Bay Hotel in cooperation with New World Saigon Hotel, Vietnamese Airlines and the embassy of Vietnam in the Philippines showcases the refinements, vivid colors and exotic ingredients of Vietnamese cuisine. Take a gastronomic journey to Vietnam with a selection of popular Vietnamese dishes and beverages at the lunch and dinner buffet at the Market Café and Vietnamese coffee experience at the Lobby Lounge.
Diners at Market Café during the Vietnamese Food Promotion get a chance to win a Saigon getaway that includes a two-night stay in New World Saigon Hotel and Manila-Saigon round trip airfare tickets for two persons courtesy of Vietnam Airlines.
Vietnamese cuisine is considered one of the healthiest in the world. Guest chefs Tran Van Dong and Tran Thanh Thuy were invited from Saigon to prepare a delightful array of dishes using fresh spices and herbs such as galangal, lemongrass, mint, coriander, cinnamon, bird’s eye chili, lime, basil leaves and much more.
Among some of the signature dishes by the guest chefs are Southern Vietnamese salted rice flour cake with prawn and pork, water fern cake with prawn and pork, pineapple sour soup with prawns, braised catfish in clay pot and Vietnamese rice balls.
For starters at the lunch or dinner buffet, diners can sample an assortment of salads such as chicken cabbage salad, heart of palm and pork salad, traditional Vietnamese rice paper prawn, grapefruit salad and dried squid, papaya and pork ear salad, and Vietnamese poh piah.
Main dishes include pho beef noodle soup, hue beef noodles, Vietnamese rice pancake with prawn and pork, Vietnamese chicken glass noodles with bamboo shoots, Vietnamese caramelized pork, fried prawn skewer with chili salt, braised mudfish and grilled pork with five spices.
The must-try desserts are sweet mung bean soup with seaweed, corn and coconut sweet soup, sweet banana and tapioca soup and baba sweet soup.
At The Lounge, discover the coffee culture of Vietnam.
Vietnamese coffee is dark and bitter with a hint of almond flavor. It is brewed in a single-cup filter which acts as a small coffee pot. Inside the single-cup filter is a chamber for coffee and room for hot water. Condensed milk is available at the bottom of the coffee cup.
Savor Vietnamese coffee whether hot or cold with a variety of Vietnamese delicacies for two persons at The Lounge.
For reservations, call 252 6888.