Noy’s Barbecue

Heaven is a flame-kissed lump of skewered meat swiped through chilli-spiked vinegar. This is what you get at Noy’s, an inihaw (Filipino barbecue) joint in New Lynn. You’ll order on the screen at the counter. Opt for a barbecue meal — which comes with grilled chicken or pork, sliced fresh vegetables and yellow rice — as your foundational dish, to which you can add more of the sticky glazed skewers: pork belly, tero tero, pig ears, chicken feet or chicken liver, as well as the sometimes available eggplant, squid or shrimp. Fill a little ramekin with the spicy, vinegary sawsawan, then dip, eat and revel in the bliss of good barbecue. The skewers and rice can be rounded off nicely with a cup of Noy’s single dessert option: taho, a mildly-sweet Filipino dessert of silken tofu, sago and brown sugar syrup.