“This is a homegrown business, not some franchise from other countries,” North Park group of restaurants proprietor Raphael Soon attests. Their food, their service and their values are what set them apart from the artifice of themed restaurants and the faddishness of trendy bars. Not only is North Park about a cool and modern ambiance, it’s also old-fashioned and well-loved cuisines.
The culinary repertoire that North Park restaurants offers are recipes perfected over generations by a family of food-lovers. The Soon family remembers serving mami and siopao even before the Second World War. “We started Golden Peking in 1974. We brought Peking Duck to the Philippines,” recalls Raffy. The first North Park establishment opened in T. Pinpin Street, Binondo China Town in 1988 as a seafood restaurant.
