Mey Lin Chinese Cuisine

This jelly fish dish is really good.  This has always been a favorite menu item to order whenever we visit Mey Lin.  We can order century egg with it, 1 piece does cost 60 pesos though.  Perfect appetizer for Chinese food.

It’s funny that we almost finished this dish even before the soy sauce, calamansi arrived hahaha!  The siomai is cooked to perfection, meaty and has generous servings of each major ingredient. This is how siomai is supposed to be cooked, tender and moist on the inside, good firm texture, and also moist on the outside but not soggy.

I expected sio long pao to be juicy because it was that way when I went to China before.  Mey Lin’s version was very dry but it still tasted good.  Just not the way I expected it though.

This reminded me of another restaurant’s version of Tofu.  This tasted just okay, nothing special or out of the ordinary, but still worth a try.  Crispy tofu with Mey Lin’s own special sauce.

Fried Intestines with vinegar is heaven!!  My all-time Mey Lin favorite dish.  No matter who I’m with, as long as we’re in Mey Lin, I make sure that we order this dish.  It’s just too delicious to pass up.

Great presentation.  The fish tasted fresh too.  Taoso is a great, great finish for this dish.  Taoso is mashed soy bean, very crispy and tasted sooo good!  Put in a container like that made it more yummier as it will always be hot.

I always see this as a Chinese version of sitaw or string beans.  It says dried but I never felt it was so.  Another favorite menu item that I order every time I go to Chinese restaurants.  There are only a few Chinese restaurants that serve this though, luckily, Mey Lin is one of them.

This was really good!  Chicken with lemon, a weird combination but it worked perfectly well.  This is definitely a twist on the classic orange chicken that is more popularly made in other Chinese restaurants.  The balance with this dish is of course the crispiness of the chicken along with the sauce.  We even ordered another one as the first one was finished in just a few minutes and everyone just wanted more 🙂

I kept raving about the lemonade while drinking.  I think colleagues who were seated next to me was getting tired hearing me say how good the lemonade was.  I also kept mentioning that they should make it a bottomless one.  Mey Lin’s lemonade is just the best, it’s soooo good!  You should order this drink when you visit the restaurant.

For me, the best Chinese dessert is the mango sago.  I’m not sure how this was done but I think it’s mango puree/juice with tapioca.  Served cold, very tasty.