This delivery service can serve a traditional Chinese feast

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This delivery service can serve a traditional Chinese feast

Jeeves de Veyra

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MANILA -- Traipsing through the backstreets of Binondo and Banawe used to be the only way to get heritage dishes. But in these days where good food is just a click away, home-based Wok With Mom delivers Chinese food that will take you back into the Chinoy family dining rooms of old Chinatown.

This delivery service offers the traditional recipes of Gemma Lim, who used to teach Chinese cooking at their old residence in Binondo. She even operated a Chinese restaurant called Bridge View at the foot of Jones Bridge that was destroyed during the great fire in that area several decades ago.

Oi and Gemma Lim flanked with the Wok With Mom Kitchen team. Photo by Jeeves de Veyra

Her daughter, Oi, took a break from her long-time BPO career and convinced her to bring her food back to the public palate. As family and friends started to savor her Eight Treasure Chicken, word got around to get the Lim’s kitchen buzzing with activity once more.

What’s interesting about Wok with Mom’s menu is that there are only six items on it. The mother and daughter team trimmed the fat by focusing on quality over quantity. This was a major leap from the first version of the menu which had only one item on it. Eventually, customers started asking for more types of entrees like noodles, and vegetarian options.

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Here's a quick peek into the Wok with Mom’s menu:

1. Eight Treasure Chicken

Prosperity, family, joy and abundance are what this dish represents and it certainly has brought blessings to the Lims. So far, Wok with Mom is the only delivery service that offers this indulgent Chinese dish made of a meticulously deboned chicken stuffed with lotus seeds, chestnuts, sticky rice, scallops, shitake mushrooms and Lim’s secret ingredients. Photo by Jeeves de Veyra

2. Lucky Chinese Meat Ball

This dish symbolizes happy reunions. So apt as these are often served as snacks or appetizers to friends and visitors in Chinoy households. Best eaten dipped with in ketchup. Photo by Jeeves de Veyra

3. Summer Vegetable Wrap

The surprise behind these stuff-it-yourself lettuce wraps is that the stuffing is 90% vegetables. Other restaurants versions of this dish have a side of hoisin, but this one doesn’t. The stuffing’s flavor shines by itself and it doesn’t need any other sauce that would otherwise overpower its freshness. Photo by Jeeves de Veyra

4. Pork Knuckles Braised 4 Hours

Symbolizing wealth, this interpretation of pata tim takes four hours to get to its “cut-with-a-spoon” tenderness. The distinct anise aroma when you open the tray just whets the appetite. Photo by Jeeves de Veyra

5. Gua Bao stuffing

Celebrate money and new beginnings with these steamed Gua Bao buns with peanuts and Lim’s pickled vegetables. I'd recommend ordering this with the Pork Knuckles as making a cua pao sandwich stuffed with slices of the sweet salty pata tim with pickles make a hearty meal in itself. Photo by Jeeves de Veyra

6. Long Life Noodles

Noodles are a mainstay of Asian birthday meals. The Lims opted to use bihon, instead of canton, stir frying in shitake and scallops in this dish, and topping it with crispy shallots.Photo by Jeeves de Veyra

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The dishes can be ordered from Wok With Mom’s Facebook page. The Eight Treasure Chicken and the Pork Knuckles need to be ordered two days ahead of time.

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