We have been here a couple of times because it is just walking distance to our auntie's condo.
Our staple order is a hotpot in sate soup with clams, beef, fish cheeseballs, sea cucumber, beef tendon, taro, spinach, watercress and if there's fresh and not cultured shrimp we'll add it. Servers are accommodating. We also love their friend squid and lumpiang shanghai.
This is our favorite shabu shabu place Basi all because of the satay broth and the dipping sauce.
The fish balls with cheese was amazing also! This si the place to be for shabu shabu
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Food is better than other Chinese restos. We had hotpot with veggies, squid balls and shrimp balls. The staff was thoughtful enough to add more plain soup to our broth when we were reacting on how spicy we made it.
For more food, we had steamed dumplings (shrimp and pork), fried dumplings, fried rice, spareribs, lemon chicken and sweet and sour fish (lapu-lapu). We thought the food were beyond what we expected. They have big servings. Their dumplings are really full of the filling! The fried ones are not oily. I personally like how the sweet and sour fish is not the usual cream dory. Lapu-lapu is really good. The lemon chicken I feel balanced all the viands we had with its sour sauce and plain chicken.Every viand had its partner sauce. And we really enjoyed them also.
They offer hotpot sets if you feel lazy picking the vegetables and meat for the hotpot. But we opted to choose our own since we had someone with us who came here before and knows what's good.
The staff were very accommodating from the moment we came inside to our requests and in finishing.
Went there lunch time on a Saturday and there weren't much people. Though this place, maybe a little to hard to see since it's inside the old BIR building in Makati.
Only nega would be there were some insects flying to our food inside (but the place is closed, airconditioned). We had to shoo a fly which went to our table three times. The servers also helped in shooing them away and in making sure that in the end there wouldnt be any more insects flying inside.
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Found inside the classic Atrium Building in Makati Avenue (right across the Ayala Triangle Gardens), Tien-tien is perfect for that Chinese fix. You can have a choice between the hotpot version or set meals. The items on their menu are of good quality and are fresh; the shrimps are killed right beside you by dousing boiling water over them in a bowl.
Before locking in your orders from the hotpot menu, make sure to ask the staff how big is each serving. We learned the hard way that their servings are bigger than that of other hotpot spots so we ended up bringing half of what we ordered home.
They say that foreign food in a foreign place is legit based on the patrons. Half of the patrons when we came in were Chinese so we knew we were in good company.
Tien-tien's interiors are rather antiquated. But I didn't mind. This is one of the few places where you go to be filled and fed. And personally, the datedness of the place adds to its appeal, letting people know that they have thrived and survived.
Good Chinese food we ordered from here via Foodpanda.
Minced Pork with Eggplant was very good. Super tasty. Lapu lapu fillet cutlet was fresh and light. Yangchow Fried Rice was good too.
Beef Brisket in Claypot was somewhat disappointing. Didn't like the quality of the meat. Sauce was tasty though.
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