Binondo Trip - Lan Zhou La Mien

Binondo is the "Chinatown" district of Manila. Everywhere you go, business establishments are there. You can buy a lot of goods from Hopia to exotic ingredients such as ginseng, shark fin, cartilage, deer horn dried snake and bird's nest. (Source: wikitravel.org)

I've been to binondo many times and visiting the establishments here again is like a bliss to me because this means food tripping again. I like coming back here, it's like an adventure in searching where to eat since there are a lot of food stalls and restaurants open.

We decided to go to Lan Zhou La Mien. I've missed this resto. I love the noodles here. It's very authentic.

That time we are really craving for a ramen, but this is Binondo and La Mien is the superstart here. hehe I ordered for a Seafood La Mien.

Seafood La Mien

I assure you this is very "sulit". I just ordered for a single order but since we're two, I asked the waiter to make it half for both of us so we can have a separate bowl. And tadaaaa!

One order of Seafood La Mien made it half and separated as my request.

If I haven't told you that this is just a single order, I know you will think that these are two orders but no, this is just one order and yes, they have a really big serving here. And they still have additional soup of this if you want. You can just ask the waiter. The price of this? You're jaw might drop knowing that this is only P120.00.
Yep! You are getting a quality food here and here you can see how they are doing the noodles.

This might be too small but you can see the chef stretching the La Mien.

You have there in Seafood La Mien, lot of dory fish, shrimps and pechay. Of course, the soup and the authentic noodles is what makes it more delicious. Try it here.
They say that a Chinese resto is not authentic if it is not serving a free tea for their customers. Here in Lan Zhou La Mien, they are serving free tea for everyone who wants it.

Free tea.

Although I  am not a fan of any kind of hot or cold tea, my friend Cath said that this is really good. I think she choses this over water and was able to drink a lot of tea instead of water. She is by the way, a tea lover so I trust her comment about this. hehe

Next order we have is the Tau Chao.

Tau Chao

This is like their pansit version, the difference is the noodles they used which is very thick and bigger than our usual pansit bihon. It has also a lot of vegetables such as tomato, cabbage and all plus the small shrimps in it. You can also choose your toppings. In our case, we chose the beef. The black chunk that you are seeing there in the picture, that's beef. You can have Tau Chao for only P150.00. This also a big serving and I think this can be served for 3-4 persons. We need to ask this for take out because we are already full and make it as pasalubong.

The orders!

Before heading home, we went to Fried Siopao stall and buy some.

For only P15.00, you will be able to taste the famous Fried Siopao here in binondo.

Fried Siopao

How to get there?

From Cubao you can either ride a train via LRT2 station or you can choose to ride a jeepney.

• Via Jeep:
• From Cubao, you can ride a jeep going to Divisoria and ask the driver to drop you off the Buenavidez Street.
• From Buenavidez Street, you can just walk to get there.
• Via LRT2 Station:
• Take the LRT2 to Recto terminal station.
• Take the South Exit.
• Turn left at Claro M. Recto, and walk about 1 block, past Calero, Oroquieta, and the Phil. Rabbit Terminal, until you get to Rizal Avenue.
• Turn left at Rizal Avenue, and walk about 4 blocks, past Soler, Germina, Katubusan, G. Puyat, and Ronquillo, until you get to LRT1-Carriedo station.
• Cross Rizal Avenue.
• Turn right, and walk past Sta. Cruz Church towards Bustos.
• Turn left at Bustos, and walk about 1 block until you get to Ongpin. Chinatown begins there, right behind Sta. Cruz Church.

For more alternative routes, you can check this out - ph-commute.com