Been wishing you could taste your favorite kare-kare, crispy pata and pinakbet from Barrio Fiesta while on Saipan? The wishing is over as these and other equally delectable meal items are available right here on island.<\/p>\n
K\u2019s Wow Pao, which opened in April this year, has just added a new line of meal choices, which are considered the \u201cspecialties\u201d in the Philippines\u2019 famous Barrio Fiesta Restaurant.<\/p>\n
Rowena Lampano O\u2019Connor, owner of K\u2019s Wow Pao, says she personally loves Barrio Fiesta food, and knows that many others love it, too.<\/p>\n
So she made a way to bring that luxuriously delicious taste to island diners: She hired a cook that used to prepare the food at Barrio Fiesta.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy cook here is from Barrio Fiesta,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can really taste the difference. It\u2019s not a casual taste you find elsewhere. It\u2019s not homemade taste. It\u2019s the five-star restaurant taste we are offering our customers,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
K\u2019s Wow Pao\u2019s specialties now include one-of-a-kind bulalo, kaldereta, binaguongang baboy\/manok, beefsteak Tagalog, and a lot more.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m just so happy that people can finally have their fill of these delicious meals without having to wait for their next trip home,\u201d said O\u2019Connor.<\/p>\n
She shares that whenever she goes to Manila, the first thing she would do after the airport is to stop by at the nearest Barrio Fiesta to order her favorite food items.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d always do that,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
DIMSUM HOUSE<\/p>\n
K\u2019s Wow Pao continues to offer its sumptuous selection of dimsum and other finely selected food snacks from different places.<\/p>\n
The Chinese word \u201cdimsum\u201d literally means \u201ca little bit of heart\u201d but it actually means \u201cfood accompanied by a cup of tea, or a pot of tea.\u201d<\/p>\n
The contemporary meaning of the word dimsum is \u201clight snack.\u201d<\/p>\n
At K\u2019s Wow Pao, several of these light snacks\u2014from seafood, vegetable, meat, wanton soup, siopao, and a variety of noodles\u2014are available.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Connor said she personally made a careful evaluation of all entries in the menu, making sure that each one of them is unique in some way.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are all my favorites. I find those in restaurants and eating places I\u2019ve visited,\u201d said the well-traveled energetic mom-turned entrepreneur.<\/p>\n
She said she has a cook that specializes in dimsum food and other Chinese cuisine.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Connor proudly says that K\u2019s Wow Pao makes its own noodles for its use.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s fresh! That\u2019s a guarantee because we make our own noodles,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
She said she also supplies some hotels with K\u2019s Wow Pao-freshly made noodles.<\/p>\n
TOAST SUB, PANDESAL<\/p>\n
In addition, O\u2019Connor\u2019s said that her restaurant\/bakeshop has developed its following for pandesal, the popular Filipino breakfast and snack bread.<\/p>\n
At six in the morning, people would be seen going to K\u2019s to buy pandesal.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a click. People love it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Pandesal is available from 6am to 11pm.<\/p>\n
Toasted sub is another favorite entry.<\/p>\n
This is similar to Subway sandwich but K\u2019s Wow Pao makes use of freshly cut meat and freshly baked bread.<\/p>\n
THREE DAUGHTERS<\/p>\n
If anyone is wondering about the name, O\u2019Connor said she named her restaurant\/bakeshop after her three lovely daughters\u201419-year-old Kathryn, 10-year-old Kallie, and two-year old Kiara.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Connor said she put out the restaurant business with a goal that it\u2019s going to have a nice ambiance and is affordable.<\/p>\n
She said the pricing caters to minimum wage earners.<\/p>\n
\u201cQuality-wise, it\u2019s superb but it\u2019s cheap. You can eat the fine food you\u2019d find in expensive restaurants, but we have it here at a low price,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
In terms of serving, she said that K\u2019s Wow Pao meal size is good for two persons.<\/p>\n
K\u2019s Wow Pao is located beside CIC Centre along Beach Road in Garapan, Saipan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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