DINNER
  Dinner  
Appetizers
Squash soup with crab dumplings
(Calabaza puree with coconut milk & ginger soup)
$ 9.00
Amy's spring roll w/ achara (pickled green papaya relish)
(Grandmother's recipe of deep fried spring roll with cabbage,
stringbeans, tofu, pork, shrimp)
$ 8.50
Lumpia Shanghai with pineapple sweet & sour sauce
(Deep fried spring rolls with pork, carrots, mushrooms & jicama)
$8.50
Manila clams with blackbeans, leeks & shitake mushrooms $ 10.50
Beef tapa salad (thinly sliced air-dried beef marinated in soy, kalamansi & garlic) $ 9.50
Fresh lumpia with tamarind and peanut sauce
(Napa cabbage, beansprouts, jicama, leeks & mushrooms in fresh purple yam wrapper)
$ 9.50
Goat curry with fresh rice pancakes, chutney & plantain $ 11.50

Main Courses
Chicken adobo
(braised in rice vinegar, soy, bayleaves, garlic & chilies)
$ 18.50
Striped bass with hijiki crust
(panfried filet of bass topped with seaweed, leek & miso crust) 
$ 19.50
Salt roasted duck with mango & tomatillo chutney and cellophane noodles $ 21.50
Lamb shank braised in coconut milk, lemongrass, kaffir lime & galangal $ 20.50
Grilled oxtail kare-kare with bagoong (fermented shrimp paste)
(Oxtail braised in tomatoes & ground peanuts with long beans & eggplant)
$ 19.50

Asian Grill & BBQ
Romy's spareribs with mashed taro & sweet potatoes
(marinated in garlic, soy and ricewine & spice-rub; then slow cooked in Chinese smokehouse)
$ 19.50
Chicken inasal
(Visayan style barbecue marinated in kalamansi, garlic and achuete)
$ 18.50
Grilled trout relleno stuffed with mushrooms, jicama & leeks in banana leaves $ 19.50

Noodles & Rice
Laksa with shrimp & udon
(Malaysian curry sauce of coconut milk, lemongrass, curry leaves, chilies)
$ 19.50
Spicy rice noodles with tofu, sesame seeds, shiitake mushrooms & watercress
$ 17.50
Cellophane noodles with beansprouts, mushroom, bok choy,
snowpeas & lotus root
$ 17.50
Black rice paella with crab, scallops, shrimp & Manila clams
(with green Thai curry, bottleneck gourd, loofah, mushrooms, eggplant)
$ 19.50

Asian style brunch & merienda (in between meal snacks) are served on Saturdays & Sundays, 11 am – 4:30 pm. Philippine brunch specialties include tocino (achuete-cured pork), tapa (air-dried beef), pancit luglug, suman (steamed sticky rice wrapped in banana leaves), halo-halo and bibingka (Philippine rice pancakes topped with gouda & French feta cheese.)
45 Mercer Street (between Broome and Grand Sts.) NY, NY 10013
phone:212-343-9012 fax: 212-343-9670
email:acbesa@prodigy.net