Since I arrived in the Philippines, everyone was talking about how we needed to try manam. Finally, on our last day in Greenhills, we went to Manam for lunch and now understand the hype. I wish I could go again because the menu is huge and everything sounds delicious. They can get busy, we waited about 20 minutes around 12pm on a Friday, but they do let you preorder so that your food comes out quicker once you're seated.
You can choose between small, medium, and large sizes for each dish. A large is supposed to be enough for 4-5 people. We ordered 11 dishes (various sizes) for 7 people, it sounded like a lot but we finished it all lol. For small orders to try, we got the green chili lumpia, mango salad, and calamari - all of these were good, but a small size was enough. For mediums, we got the sizzling sinigang, bangus sisig, and corned beef sisig - all of these worth trying! My favorite of the three was the sizzling sinigang, like nothing I've tried before! For larges, we ordered the adobong kangkong (veggies) that came with a yummy sauce that paired perfectly with rice, crispy pancit palabok, crispy pata, patis wings, and pork sinigang. All of those are a must try! The crispy pata was definitely crispy and if you dip the skin in the Patis wing sauce.. wowww! I really enjoyed their pork sinigang as well, could've ordered a small bowl for myself, but glad I was able try a little bit of various dishes.
This place is better for groups so you can try more of the menu items. I doubt you could go wrong with anything here so if something sounds good to you, then I say go for it! We also ordered shakes to go, we tried the ube + sago, choconut, and mango + palmelo + sago, the choconut was my favorite of the 3. We also wanted to try the fresh calamansi juice but they were sold out.
Overall a great experience and the staff handled our big party and big order well, thanks manam! read more