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    Tim Ho Wan

    3.4 (19 reviews)
    PriceyDim Sum

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    Karlo P.

    Pork buns is definitely not to be miss. This is the second restaurant location I have tried it. I have enjoyed their dim sum selection and they serve it all day.

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    Patrick U.

    Ambience: Restaurant has plenty of seats with different table sizes. Daytime light coming through the windows is relaxing, and good thing it isn't direct; it feels like morning at lunch time. It's also well-ventilated like other branches so far. For first-timers, each table has order sheets. You'll write down the quantity of each item you want and food photos are available on the paper placemat. Food: Congee with Lean Pork Century Egg & Salted Egg is good! I know it's just rice porridge but I still enjoy the thickness of it. Salted egg is the best part and the century egg works like a flavor-enhancer since it comes in tiny pieces. Cold Barley Water was interesting to try since I've only had it warm elsewhere. It's okay but I think I'm fine with water. It has some weight as you drink it but not like a shake; feels like drinking guyabano. Dimsum - I'd recommend any. All I've tried are excellent! Pork Buns - Must have at every visit. Service: Waiting time was reasonable. They gave typically good service but nothing out of the ordinary. I wish I got my change faster because I wanted to give my table to the 3 groups around me asap. Everyone was giving me glances, including one of the other servers, and I just wished the change could teleport to me instead.

    40 minutes waiting for food on a Sunday.  F!?*ing RIDICULOUS!!
    Benjamin L.

    Ridiculous! This location in BGC sucks! I'm never ever... evaevaevaever coming back here. Food service was terrible! Wait staff OK, but not like OK! just... eehhhhh ok, but average for the Philippines, they don't come to check on you and when they came to refill the water, the server only filled half the glasses and left the other half on the table empty! Empty! After asking him to please fill the other glasses, he never came back. Not to mention the fact that half our order took 40 minutes to come after everyone pretty much ate everything else, ordered other things because the first half of the food has not arrived. No complaints about the food, of course! Tim Ho Wan always makes great food. Just the whole experience was terrible. Honestly, I thought I have had some bad experiences, but this location of Tim Ho Wan is up there. I've been to their other locations and have had very nice experiences. I'm just not going give my business to the Up Town BGC location in the future. Horrible experience, I left pissed off. What a way to cap off a meal.

    Giovan T.

    Open daily until 3am in the morning. So my dear Tim Ho Wan has been getting some mixed views, which is justifiable with its Michelin star attract high expectations. I'm not going to sugar coat it, I do find the food just above average in taste, but I've come to that conclusion on my first time at their Glorietta branch. What's keeps coming back is their consistency and simplicity. They're a reliable place that I'd chose when my tummy rumbles and my brain has no time to plan a foodie adventure. Tim Ho Wan's 6th branch in the Philippines and with such a positive response on their first 2 days of operations, we wouldn't be shocked they'd open more. In fact they'll be opening their first branch in Cebu at the SM Seaside Cebu soon. The menu is simple, it's displayed right on the paper place mat and ordering is easy as writing down the quantity of your desired item(s) on the piece of paper they provide. The ambiance is airy and bright. It's ground level location is ideal for post party meals and for past midnight food crawls. What We Ate Spinach with shrimp Dumpling (120 PHP) A green filled Dumpling with a decent veggie bite to it. Prawn Dumpling (160 PHP) 4 pieces of happiness and equally divided for us two brothers. No awkward third piece courtesy argument with this order. It's our and many others favourite for its smooth texture and freshness waiting inside. Rice with Chicken and Chicken (170 PHP) Slightly premium in price for a topped rice bowl. The sauce in the rice bowl from the mushrooms is comforting and enhanced with their special sauce added upon serving. Rice with Beef and Egg (170 PHP) Another rice bowl topped with a centimeter thick beef patty and fried egg. The beef is nothing to rave about, simply a compact meat patty. Pork Buns with BBQ (145 PHP) This is a must try even if you just order this. Hit of tangy sweetness and overall a good feeling bite. Crisp body and filled with delicious fillings.

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    Review Highlights - Tim Ho Wan

    The pork buns are still yummy, but the buns have gotten thicker and the pork filling is less now.

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    Lugang Cafe

    Lugang Cafe

    3.4(9 reviews)
    1.2 kmTaguig City
    ₱₱₱

    My parents been coming here for years when they visit from the US. Was expecting it to be really…read moregood. The food was all pretty good, good sized servings but what was horrible was the service. Place wasn't even that busy but took so long to get anything. Asked the same waiter twice for my soda which never came and they even charged me for it. Sent that bill back to remove it and they seemed bothered that I did that. Then we decided to get 2 ice cream desserts before heading home but we should've just went home. Took over 25 minutes...for ice cream. I wouldn't come back here with All the other choices they have

    To avoid confusion with other establishments in Manila, what is known in Beijing and Shanghai as…read morethe Bellagio is called Lugang Cafe here. We patronized the place in order to take advantage of their Feast All You Can promo which, for less than six hundred pesos, allows you to order one House Specialty and as much as you want of most everything else on the menu. Now, it bears mentioning that I'm not exactly a fan of buffets--often, ninety percent of what's laid out is a half-baked concoction of chefs that don't exactly have the time to develop and focus on every single dish they have to pop out come the dinner rush, and not everything is worth the calories--and while the food at Lugang isn't really served buffet style, I was hesitant. I was willing to try it though because I figured if I was ordering from the menu anyway, then those dishes probably did go through better development procedures than buffet food. For my House Specialty dish, I ordered their crispy fried chicken (but only because everyone else at my table had already ordered their Hainan chicken). The chicken that they set down in front of me was a healthy brown color (very promising), and the skin definitely looked crispy. It tasted pretty good, too! I was happily surprised that they did not commit the fried chicken sin of uneven cooking and underseasoning. The rest of what I ate was mostly their Xiao Long Bao. There were other dishes on our table, but I couldn't stop eating the Xiao Long Bao. It was THAT GOOD. I liked that the wrapper wasn't fragile (like in other places), so the soup wouldn't pour out at the slightest touch of your chopsticks. Another homerun was their mango dessert thing. They serve it with ice cream and shaved ice, and it's a simple-looking bowl of yellow stuff, but it was surprisingly REALLY REALLY REALLY GOOD. I'm a chocolate-is-the-only-real-dessert kind of gal, but let me tell you, they must lace their mangoes with some sort of aphrodisiac because everyone at our table loved it! So much so that we ordered several more bowls to share. I was surprised to find how much I loved Lugang Cafe. For a while now, I've been too suspicious of it to patronize it, but now I think of it as a go-to for indecisive and hungry moments.

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    Lugang Cafe - Shrimp Shu Mai

    Shrimp Shu Mai

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    Tim Ho Wan - BBQ Pork Buns!!!

    Tim Ho Wan

    4.1(33 reviews)
    3.0 kmMandaluyong City
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    FYI, I ate Balut on this trip!!!!!!!! Finally Freeeeeeeeeee. Hahhahaahahahha…read more I'm so confused. Admittedly, Filipino food for the most part, not my jam. Most likely Tim Ho Wan curtailed their menu/dishes, way of cooking to the fillipino palate......maybe???? I'm confused that a previously Michelin rated domain super franchise has some super mediocre dishes. Actually the Yang Chow fried rice is 1 star at best. Didn't even finish it. The pork chop was decent, they had a different take on the frying and I appreciated it. But the fried rice, 3 bites, nope. The Prawn Fried Chicken wings and drums........soooo confusing. When it arrived I smelled shrimp, it was strong enough to overtake the table, not in a bad way just had u questioning how chicken could smell so strongly Prawn. I guess that's why they call it that! Perhaps it's a thing here or am existing trend I'm clueless about, but for me, yea.......no. Fried chicken itself was good, just like the Tim How Wan in China (without the prawn frying) but the prawn frying here was just nope! The beef brisket noodle soup.......noodles mushy. A big nonooooooooo. Beef and tendons were just ok. Broth just ok..... The BBQ Pork Buns thankfully NOT messed with. Always the shining star of Tim Ho Wan. Flaky, hot, tasty. The salvaging only dish here. Everything but the Buns (4 Star), 1 Star. Service, hard working people, especially front desk taking names and numbers - 4 Star girl. 2 stars overall. Super odd, and I hope a super outlier for a franchise I expect WAY MORE FROME.

    Michelin star status and there's a reason why. The dim sum was so unique and so good. My sister and…read moreI shared some fan favorites and some Tim Ho Wan specials. Pictures are worth 1,000 words so will let the pictures speak for itself. There may be a wait but trust me, it's worth it.

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    Tim Ho Wan - Front of the restaurant

    Front of the restaurant

    Tim Ho Wan - Front of Menu

    Front of Menu

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    BBQ Pork Buns

    Tim Ho Wan - dimsum - Updated May 2026

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