Meet Pa Lo - tender pork belly cooked in a sweet dark soya sauce with herbs, served with onions, bean curd and boiled egg. Eaten with a bowl of hot steaming rice - perfect.
Rice is the main Filipino stable and (most!) Filipinos love pork, needless to say after the first mouthful of this dish it transported me back home... My heart beated faster... although it was just perhaps my arteries trying to process the extra cholesterol, but anyway...The sauce reminded me a lot of pata tim - which is braised pork knuckles in a similar sweet dark soy based sauce.
We had the Pa Lo at Sweet Chilli, a Thai restaurant, on a Friday night, when the stars were out and we felt like walking towards dinner armed with a bottle of Shiraz. The restaurant was very busy, and the food is good, perhaps giving justice to their $15-$22 price range for mains.
Not bad for a local spot indeed... now if only they also had a pub... :)
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