winter melon

Kim Choo's Nonya Kitchen at Terminal 3 of Changi Airport is best known for its meat-filled rice dumplings, complete with coriander-flavoured minced pork and chopped wintermelon filling.

To drink, we had a Jasmine green tea, and I tried the hot wintermelon healthy tea, the top of which was crowded with chrysanthemums and goji berries.

Then came wintermelon soup with crabmeat and dried scallops.

I also liked the Wintermelon Wraps that resembled dainty gift parcels.

Suggested orders: This diner and company started with the Shredded Wintermelon with Dried Scallop Chicken Soup, very refreshing.

Another cousin, Atching Lillian Borromeo, the Kapampangan heritage cuisine authority and food historian, prepared the traditional San Nicolas cookies and the dulce prenda, the signature old Hizon dessert made of arraro flour and preserved kundol or wintermelon. Freshly cooked bibingka with ebun buru (salted egg) from the bibingkahan stationed next to the kamalig, and hot chocolate were served much later.