KKK restaurant is located on the ground floor, a few meters away from the IMAX theater of the Mall of Asia. It’s a restaurant that serves Filipino food with historical memories on the side. What initially convinced me to dine there was interior design. I’m a real sucker for local historical treasures and when combined with another passion, food, the resulting experience is a sure winner. Going inside the KKK restaurant, I was not at all that disappointed.

The service is OK. Not fantastic, but just right considering that the place isn’t exactly a five-star. It’s a restaurant inside a mall that serves good food at reasonable prices. Two people should eat heartily for P500 (US$10.47). Not a bad deal, I think.

There was only the two of us, Noreen and myself, so we only ordered what we could eat. I love soupy dishes so I ordered the Sinigang na Tyan ng Bangus (milkfish belly in sour tamarind broth). It was really good and I must say I’d come back to KKK f or this dish again.

Did I mention that the Bangus (milkfish) was boneless? Yup, I just did!

Noreen ordered one of their house specialties, their Bistek Tagalog (Tagalog-style beef). I didn’t know why this was a house specialty until they served it.

KKK’s chef (I didn’t ask to meet him/her) put a wonderful creative twist on an old Pinoy favorite. Instead of cooking the beef in thin slices, the beef was patiently loosened into fibers and cooked to a crunchy finish and heaped into a tall pile before drizzled with the sauce and sprinkled with diced tomatoes and onions. An amazing dish, I believe.

I will come back to this restaurant the next time I visit the SM Mall of Asia. I hope you do too when you visit the Mall.