LOOK: 3 Must-Visit Authentic Asian Restaurants in Metro Manila

Every travel plan often includes a time dedicated to exploring the flavors of a country's food culture.

However, if you want to relish a certain traditional cuisine in Asia without booking a plane ticket, there are restaurants nearby that will take lesser time and budget to visit.

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Pop Talk traveled around the metro just to get a taste of authentic Asian cuisine that's won't let you travel far. With Kapuso host Tonipet Gaba and three guest reviewers including Kim De Leon, they gathered three restaurants you should include in your next food crawl.

Monga

Monga is considered as 'Taiwan's Most Popular Chicken Cutlet Chain' with over 70 branches all over the world. In fact, Monga's Signature Fried Chicken will let you experience the rich Taiwanese food culture.

Its bestseller is the larger-than-your-hand The King that only costs PhP 189 for ala carte and PhP 199 with rice!

This Taiwanese restaurant is located at the lower ground floor of SM Megamall Building A.

Fat Fook

There is no need to travel all the way to Taiwan just to get a taste of its authentic cuisine. In Fat Fook Kitchen, they serve Taiwanese food prepared exactly like those in the street markets of its country!

For your Fat Fook food trip, try their Pork Xiao Long Bao, Taiwan Fried Rice, Chicken Chops, Gindara Tofu, Sea Urchin Balls, Cheese Balls, and Masachi. They also recently started the Build Your Own Meal, for only PhP 350.

Fat Fook has multiple branches in Metro Manila, with one located on the third floor of SM Megamall.

Putien

Putien brings you to China while still being in Metro Manila! With its impressive Chinese specialty menu, this Singapore-based restaurant is deserves the highly coveted Michelin star it has earned.

Pop Talk had the honor of trying all ten of their signature dishes -- the Seaweed and Mini Shrimps Dressed with Sauce, Deep Fried Pork Trotters with Salt and Pepper, Bamboo Herbal Prawn, Braised Pig Intestines, Stir Fried Yam, Putien Sweet and Sour Pork with Lychee, Putien Crispy Oyster, Braised Bean Curd with Chinese Cabbage, Shredded Pork with Sesame Bun, and Fried Hong Hwa Bee Hon.

Putien is located at the fifth floor of The Podium in Mandaluyong City.

Want to know which among these three authentic Asian restaurants were pop or flop? Watch Pop Talk's final verdict here:

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