Mother’s Day Menu at Purple Yam

Oyster & Scallop Kinilaw (ceviche) on watermelon ice

Pork belly sinigang with tamarind

Mother’s Day Brunch & Dinner Specials

Sunday,  May 9, 2010

Brunch – 11:30 am – 5 pm;  Dinner – 5 pm down

Appetizers

Fresh lumpia with fresh  bamboo shoots & water chestnuts, $8

Skate kinunot (shredded & cooked in coconut milk) with sorrell & nori,  $9

Beet & tofu dumplings with yogurt sauce & radish kimchi,  $8

Quail escabeche (braised in apple cider vinegar, garlic, leeks, pimento & olives),  $10

Bluepoint oysters & scallops kinilaw on watermelon ice & citrus marinade topped with horseradish & ginger,  $12

Shrimp & scallion Pa Jun (pancake),  $12

Main Courses

Pork belly sinigang with guava & water spinach,  $18

Pancit luglug (rice noodle with pork & shrimp sauce) topped with  grilled squid,  $18

Pan fried softshell crab with jap chae (sweet potato noodle),  $18

Lamb curry with pickled eggplant & spiced cashews,  $19

Black rice paella with Manila clams, scallops & shrimps,  $20

Beef shortrib adobo (braised in pineapple vinegar, garlic, bay leaves, black peppercorns & chiles), $22

Special Desserts (all ice creams & sorbets are homemade), $7.50

Crema Catalan with turrones de almendras from Barcelona

Strawberry rhubarb crumble with vanilla bean ice cream

Warm chocolate cake with chocolate rum ice cream

Mango tart with mango ice cream

Parfait of pineapple & jackfruit ice creams with watermelon ice

Ukoy (vegetable & shrimp fritter),  $7

Fried pork & chive dumplings with black rice vinegar,  $6

Lumpia Shanghai, $7

Tocilog (tocino, garlic fried rice & eggs), $10

Tapsilog (tapa, garlic fried rice & eggs),  $11

Longsilog (homemade longaniza, garlic fried rice & eggs),  $9

Pancit Bihon (thin rice noodles with chicken, Chinese sausage & veggies),  $9

Chicken adobo,  $12

Bibimbap with brown rice,  roasted carrots, radish, cabbage, sprouts, mushrooms with fried egg,  $9

Bibingka (baked rice cake with Gouda & French feta),  $6 small;  $9 large

Amy’s springroll (grandmother’s recipe with shrimp, tofu, pork & veggies),  $7

Pomelo, green mango & jicama salad,  $8

Bibimbap (Philippine heirloom rice, shitake, burdock, edamame, mountain yam),  $12

Chicken adobo, $16

Oxtail kare kare (braised in peanut sauce & veggies) served with bagoong,  $17

Lechon Kawali (deep fried pork belly) with pickled green papaya,  $18