Mala Project

Different from the bubbly Hot Pot, in which you slip raw ingredients into broth kept roiling on a camp stove, Chef at Mala Project flips your chosen items from the listed 60 or so ingredients in a wok with a philter of chile and spice (cumin, garlic, ginger, cardamom, licorice, and twenty other spices…). This dry pot arrives in huge bamboo bowls, slick with oil, bathed in sesame seeds. You are going to get addicted!

The décor is tenement chic, creating a warm and inviting atmosphere that’s ideal for Friday night chill, with its floor paved with bricks like the Beijing hutongs, and skinny ancient lanes dating back to Kublai Khan.

麻辣(MA-LA)

香锅(Dry-Pot)

Ma- numbing

La- spicy

Maharlika

Maharlika is a gateway restaurant that offers immersive Filipino experience.

Recommended dishes:

Arroz caldo: a nuanced rice porridge with garlic, ginger and chicken.

Sizzling sisig: a heap of finely chopped pig ears, snout, and belly, braised for four hours.

Kare-kare: oxtail stew made with peanut butter and finished with eggplant, long beans and bok choy.

Fried Chicken and Ube Waffle: fried chicken, purple waffle, compound anchovy-bagoong butter, and caramelized macapuno syrup.