Black Canyon Coffee

The Food Street of Southmall smells laggard in terms of filling in the restaurant spaces along this new wing. With only limited choices, we find ourselves  dining in the same restos.

Black Canyon Coffee is one of them. It is so much more than a coffee shop. It serves Thai cuisine but again not limited to. I browsed over the menu and found it very extensive. From soup to salad to sandwiches to pastas to rice plates to cakes to many other dishes. It's so easy to forget that you are in a coffee shop. I only dined here twice. This was the second.


 

The first time was a month or two ago with my Sydney based girlfriend who loves Thai cuisine. I had a plate of  phad Thai which I liked and a rice plate with spicy shrimp for my friend. Both of us got tall glasses of   fraps. I think mine was chocolate something.  We weren't disappointed..

... So when daughters nudged me to bring them in, I was easy.


 
My girls went straight ordering each a glass of fraps.One got black hazelnut frappe and the other one got black crunch frappe. Both were almost done when their main dishes were served.

green curry stir-fried rice with tuna stuffed in omelette. I was not that keen yet on eating so I thought I would play and try. I got interested with this looong named dish. Nor I'm fond of green curry. I just thought this must be interesting. Looked like it but then I consumed no more than 3 spoonfuls and was done. The tuna tasted nothing fancier than the canned ones. The whole dish was real spicy. I was longing for some detour taste, like a dash of sweetness and a bit of sourness. Perhaps I was just being biased cos before that day I had a Japanese or was it Korean? rice omelet too with seafood on it, topped with mayo dressing which I loved so much.


 

fried prawn with tamarind sauce. This plate was my daughter's. She just ordered a plate of plain rice with it. I got to eat some pieces myself. Breaded prawns were good but the sweet tamarind sauce was kindah new to us. It's the sweet and sour of the Chinese cuisine with a kick of sourness of tamarind.


 
fried fish with kotsu fried rice. This was a hit to my other daughter. She had the plate clean slate  in less than 20 minutes. She always loves fish fillet that's why.

I guess my older daughter enjoyed our meal here, so much so that the following weekend..



... she had her date here with her bestfriend.


 

And guess what they ate --> the fried fish with kotsu fried rice.



For fraps they got cookie & cream frappe and chocolate frappe. good thing beverages here are relatively more affordable than other more popular coffee shop in the metro.

Som Tam / Green Papaya Salad

Som Tam or Green Papaya Salad is one of my favorite Thai dishes. It's healthy, very Asian and quite easy to make at home. All ingredients are available in our local markets as most Thai recipes' ingredients are.

In Thailand, they eat it with sticky rice. Personally I want to eat it as side dish of a fish dish that is either steam or grilled or fried. If you haven't tried it yet , best to taste it in one of now many Thai restos around our country. After getting familiar with the tartness/spiciness/sweetness , all combined in one forkful of the salad, you may now easily re-created it at home to serve to your family. Here's a recipe to guide you and don't forget when cooking/preparing food, always be guided accordingly by your very own tongue. Trust nothing else, unless you are no foodie at all.

PREPARE :

1 small green papaya, (papaya should be very firm, the flesh white to light orange in color),grated
1 cup bean sprouts
1 tomato, cut into long thin strips
1 red chili, minced
3 spring onions, a stalk sliced into3-4 parts
1/2 cup fresh basil,chopped
handful of fresh coriander
1/2 cup honey-roasted peanuts or glazed cashews

DRESSING :

1/2 shrimp paste (bagoong)
2 tbsp olive oil
2 tbsp fish sauce
3 tbsp lime juice
1 tbsp honey

Toss everything together and serve !

Enjoy your Som Tam !

Jatujak

After circling around the center and wings of MOA for over an hour, we gave up our aspiration to find  either an Indian resto or Persian resto.

Late lunch past 2:30 pm, our stomachs were already growling. Just three escalating steps to 2nd level, we agreed to any resto with any cuisine that we would first see at the top of the moving stairs.

We found Jatujak.  Not my first time here but haven't tried other dishes in the menu so it was ok. My brother always  loves Thai dishes. Cuzin, as usual was anything goes.

We like the freshness of the color green. Servers have also relax outfits/uniforms, in t-shirts and flipflops.

Decors were suggestive of bits of Thailand

thai milk tea

Tea people_brod and cuz' didn't waste time to taste the thai milk tea. I'm not one of them. I don't like tea with milk so I had a glass of cantaloupe shakes. We all thumbed up to our drinks.

tom yum soup w mixsea food

We started with tom yum soup . My guess was this is the sinigang of Thai cuisine., it is also a sour soup using different sour source.

bagoong rice

Ofcourse, bagoong rice wouldn't be missed. This dish is quite popular to pinoys cos of the bagoong (shrimp paste). my favorite !

green papaya salad

 I've been wanting to taste this papaya salad for the longest time,but usually forgotten. I like it! Quite different from our pinoy version- atchara (pickled papaya).

spareribs in ? sauce

This is good if you were on the sweet tooth side. My girls will surely fall for this. I forgot the name of the dish.

beef in red curry sauce

 Our favorite that noon. Yummy! Just enough bits of everything except chili. Loveth!



Well, just incase, you fell short of chilis in your dish, there are hot condiments on the table to add perks.

brod & cuzin

Pure happiness with my two favorite people in the world who happen to have their bdays this month of July.