Crispy Roasted Pork from TME - $5.57

Ground Floor, Hartamas Shopping Center, Plaza Damas

 

My friend opened a new restaurant called The Meat Experts. He’s a bit of a porker himself so I think he’s found his calling. This may come as a surprise to most but little known fact, they mostly deal with meat. I know, the name totally threw me off the first time too.

I decided to drop by and have a sample. About 40 dishes to choose from, nice average  number. I went for one of the cheaper dishes, Crispy Roasted Pork.  This is his gourmet-ed take on what is normally a chinese style of preparing pork (dry roasted till the skin is crispy). It’s usually just the pork, you see. Here you get mash and roasted veges. So gourmet.

The addition of garlic in the meat was great, the pork wasn’t too dry or over-roasted. In fact, some bits of the skin weren’t too crispy, which I’m guessing is a result of not being roasted for long enough? But again the meat itself was pretty excellent, a lot of porky goodness and no pork stench (you get that sometimes).

The vegetables were quite good, not too mushy, altho it was slightly over oiled but then again it’s olive oil so I’m not complaining. The mash was nothing to write home about, but was a nice balance to the other 2 roasts.

All in all, I think quite worth the money… and I promised to go back sometime again to check out the other dishes.