{"id":5329,"date":"2015-07-29T19:10:33","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T03:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/?p=5329"},"modified":"2016-05-31T08:14:09","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T16:14:09","slug":"little-ongpin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/little-ongpin\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Ongpin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have always wanted to check out Little Onpin for their colourful, rich and comforting filipino dishes. And finally we made it there after our badminton game this week. Their menu is\u00a0huge &#8211; deciding what to get ain&#8217;t\u00a0no easy task.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Java BBQ Chicken<\/strong> ($11.95) was slightly smoky, and we could totally taste the coffee flavour on the chicken and the dipping sauce. Although a little bit on the sweet side, it was moist and delicious!<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_0844.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_0844.jpg\" alt=\"bbq java chicken\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">bbq java chicken<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <strong>Kare-Kare<\/strong> ($12.95) was a plate\u00a0of beef tripe and oxtail covered in a peanut sauce with some\u00a0shrimp paste on the side. The oxtail was cooked to super\u00a0tender. The peanut sauce was much more subtle than expected, and it didn&#8217;t work well with the gaminess of beef tripe. However it tasted better after\u00a0we added the powerful\u00a0shrimp paste to the dish.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_0846.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_0846.jpg\" alt=\"kare-kare - oxtail and beef tripe, peanut sauce, and shrimp paste\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">kare-kare &#8211; oxtail and beef tripe, peanut sauce, and shrimp paste<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Roast pork is very important in Pinoy food culture. The <strong>Pork Sisig<\/strong> ($9.50) was served on a sizzling hot iron  plate <a style=\"text-decoration:none; font-weight:normal; color:#000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tramadolshoppingguide.com\/ \"> how to order tramadol online legally <\/a> with chopped roast pork crackling, onion and chili. It&#8217;s better to be consume when it&#8217;s hot&#8230; Once it cools down, it tastes very greasy. I think it&#8217;s fun dish if you don&#8217;t care about eating healthy.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_0845.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_0845.jpg\" alt=\"pork sisig\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">pork sisig<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <strong>Grilled Squid<\/strong> ($11.50) was my favourite dish of the evening. Not only that squid was fresh and grilled to perfection, the marinade and the dipping vinegar sauce were quite exotic and flavourful as well.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_0847.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_0847.jpg\" alt=\"Inihaw na Pusit - grilled whole squid\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inihaw na Pusit &#8211; grilled whole squid<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Halo-Halo ($5.50) looked like a dressed up pageant queen of a carnival on an exotic island. Consisting of different types of specialty ice cream and some leche flan, this dessert is huge and totally meant for sharing and pleasing the diners who have a sweet tooth!<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_0849.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_0849.jpg\" alt=\"halo-halo\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">halo-halo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This dinner was an enjoyable adventure and totally foreign to me. I would love to come back to try other dishes they offer!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 28px;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\nMap and other reviews:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zomato.com\/vancouver\/little-ongpin-east-richmond-richmond\" target=\"_blank\"><img style=\"border: none; width: 200px; height: 146px; padding: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zomato.com\/logo\/16619648\/ibiglink\" alt=\"Click to add a blog post for Little Ongpin on Zomato\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have always wanted to check out Little Onpin for their colourful, rich and comforting filipino dishes. And finally we made it there after our badminton game this week. Their menu is\u00a0huge &#8211; deciding what to get ain&#8217;t\u00a0no easy task. The Java BBQ Chicken ($11.95) was slightly smoky, and we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[211,221,97],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_0847.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5329"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7923,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5329\/revisions\/7923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}