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Davao · Since 1998

A wok, a steamer, and the recipes we grew up on.

Cantonese-Filipino home cooking, slow-stirred and family-sized. Big platters for the table, small bowls for the soul.

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Walk-ins welcome · Lauriat by reservation
Mixed Temptation Chinese Restaurant — interior, soft natural daylight
The Kitchen

Twenty-seven years on J.P. Laurel, one wok still running.

We opened in 1998 with one stove, one steamer, and a notebook of recipes from a grandmother who cooked for her own table first and a restaurant second. The notebook is still in the kitchen. The recipes haven't moved.

The food is Cantonese in technique and Filipino at heart — the way the Chinese community in Davao has cooked at home for generations. Pancit guisado with kintsay and calamansi. Sweet and sour pork that isn't drowned in sauce. A whole lapu-lapu picked that morning, steamed simple. Nothing is reinvented. Everything is repeated, carefully, until it's right.

The dining room seats fifty. The lauriat table seats eight. Reservations are accepted; walk-ins are seated as soon as a chair is open.

1998 Opened on J.P. Laurel
8+ Lauriat table size
48h Lauriat notice
4 Languages at the floor
Mixed Temptation Chinese Restaurant — quiet waiting area
Mixed Temptation Chinese Restaurant — a considered detail from the practice
The dish people order first

Sweet & Sour Pork

₱420

Hand-cut pork shoulder, twice-fried so the outside stays crisp through the sauce. The sauce itself is the part most kitchens get wrong — too sweet, too red, too thick. Ours is balanced: rice vinegar against pineapple, a finish of ginger, just enough sugar to round it.

It's the dish people order on their first visit. It's also the dish people bring their parents back for.

When We're Open

Hours, last seating, the quieter nights.

Tuesday through Sunday. Mondays the kitchen rests.

  • MondayClosed
  • Tuesday11:00 – 14:00 · 17:00 – 21:30
  • Wednesday11:00 – 14:00 · 17:00 – 21:30
  • Thursday11:00 – 14:00 · 17:00 – 21:30
  • Friday11:00 – 14:00 · 17:00 – 22:00
  • Saturday11:00 – 22:00 · continuous
  • Sunday11:00 – 21:00 · continuous

Last seating Friday evenings is 21:15. PHT (UTC+8). Lauriat seatings are arranged outside service flow — please ask.

Reserve a Table

Tell us when, we'll set the table.

Walk-ins are seated as space opens. For groups of six or more, or for the lauriat, please reserve at least 48 hours ahead.

Prefer to talk? Call +63 82 222 9988 or message us at kitchen@mixedtemptation.ph.
Mixed Temptation Chinese Restaurant — instruments laid out, considered
How To Find Us

Ground floor, Insular Square.

G/F Insular Square
J.P. Laurel Avenue
Davao City, Philippines 8000

  • ParkingFree parking inside Insular Square. Valet at the curb on Friday and Saturday evenings.
  • LandmarkAcross from Bo's Coffee on J.P. Laurel, just before the Lanang underpass.
  • Phone+63 82 222 9988
  • Emailkitchen@mixedtemptation.ph
  • LanguagesEnglish · Tagalog · Bisaya · Mandarin
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