FLAVOURS OF ILOILO

Celebrating one year of commitment to serve the Ilonggos with authentic Cantonese cuisine without MSG, The Red Corner by Hongkong celebrates this feat with a lunch and dinner buffets on Friday, July 20, 2012. True to Chinese celebrations, a lion dance is expected to drum up the festivity at 630pm as the dinner commences after. On the other hand, party goers will surely enjoy it's Cocktail Nights in cooperation with Tanduay with drinks and appetizers starting today, July 18 and every Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays  for the whole month of July. Join in the celebration and the festivities as The Red Corner by Hongkong Kitchen this July and savour the best Chinese food and specialties without the guilt! Visit them at Plazuela de Iloilo. Read more about The Red Corner at Hongkong Kitchen

Mark your calendars as the Red Corner makes your dim sum dreams come true with its Dim sum All You Can treat every Monday and Friday. From 11am to 2pm and 6pm to 9pm, this Chinese joint operated by Hong Kong Kitchen serves a galore of dim sum like sio mai, nori sio mai, chicken feet, sio pao and a whole lot more. A few days ago, I personally tried what they had to offer during a luncheon meeting together with Ms. Carol, PR Officer of the restaurant. There I discovered that aside from the dim sum galore once can expect, the buffet also includes soup, noodles, rice, soup, vegetables and at least two Red Corner Specials of the day. The sweet corn and egg soup started my lunch and even though how delectable it was I had to restrain myself so that I can have space for more food. I then tried got three pieces of their crunchy lumpiang shanghai to satisfy my craving for lumpia the day before. It was generously filled with meat seasoned so well that I didn’t even bother di...

I had a very satisfying and interesting lunch yesterday and I can still vividly remember how each of the dishes tasted. The food and ambiance at The Red Corner at Plazuela de Iloilo brings back the memories of the hip and modern take of these new breed of Chinese restaurants, I used to “dig in” in Manila years ago. Of recent memory, Hong Kong Kitchen started this trend in Iloilo few years back when it opened at Robinsons Place Iloilo . Now, its sister restaurant, The Red Corner is a testament on how the how discriminating taste of the Ilonggos was able to accept the drift of the times. But it was more on the food and ambiance that made yesterday’s lunch a truly satisfying one. A meeting of gourmands, more like it, we talked about food and its impact on the tourism of Iloilo. Over the very appetizing Spinach and Seafood Soup , our talk started with the current situation of Iloilo’s tourism sector. While the soup was very enticing - spinach provided not only the interesting but a re...