Botan Black

1 Reviews on “Botan Black”

• Jonylle Pineda

  There are a very few restaurants that serves authentic Taiwanese cuisine around the Metro, and Botan really captured the hearts of the Filipino pallette due to their innovative and homegrown flavors of its home land– Taiwan.Botan has a branch at Legaspi Village (near Makati Med) and it started as a small cafe that only serves 2-3 specialty dishes that changes everyday and mostly, coffee. And now, due to popular demand, they’ve expanded to BGC for a more upscale dining experience yet they are a bit hidden since they’re at the 2nd floor of Wumaco Building at the 9th Ave corner 30th street.We had a chance to try some of their best sellers and soon to be launched on their menu which are: for the appetizers, the Hot Sour Soup, Banki Soup, Chinese Spicy Beef Noodle, and Century Egg Tofu. For the Hot Sour Soup, this is honestly the first ever that made a mark on me since it’s really new to my tastebuds! But out of the 3 soups, I prefer the Chinese Spicy Beef Noodles since I’m more into beefy broth and the noodles are so thick! While for the Banking Soup, it can really be paired or topped onto the rice. The Century Egg Tofu was a crowd’s favorite.For the mains, we had the 3 Cups Chicken, Crispy Pork Liempo, Salt & Pepper Squid, Salted Egg Prawns, Fried Pork Intestines, BBQ Beef Kang Kong. I normally don’t eat fried intestines (of any kind) but this one is delish! It didn’t taste entirely like an intestine. While the Cripsy Pork Liempo & Salted Egg Prawns really captured my heart– both of them, nothing in between. Just took one bite of them and I just, ughhh, I didn’t know that I was starving till I tasted them (lol). the Salt & Pepper Squid wasn’t gummy and the batter was still crunchy! As for the Beef Kangkong & 3 Cups Chicken, they both have that Asian flavah kick that’ll make you crave for a bottle or can of beer. Tbh, I only had one cup of rice just bcus they’re noodles are very filling!For the refreshments, they have a variety of Taiwanese drinks to choose from: Fresh Fruits Tea, Wintermelon Seafoam, and Triple Delight. Since I love Fruit Teas, their Fresh Fruit Tea is prolly the cutest high end fruit tea I’ve ever had! It has so many selections of diced fruits and you can really taste the fruitiness in one sip!

  February 29, 2020, 8:05 am

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