Food Glorious Food
I love having lunch at pancake house. It's one of those few places where I can enjoy a sumptuous lunch while reading the daily paper, albeit crowded at peak dining hours. Give me a quaint spot, a cup of tea and The Inquirer to enjoy after lunch and I'm happy as a clam. Not to mention a light price tag -- well, light enough for outside dining.
Resto hopping has become an adventure for me. Scouring the city for newly opened dining spots always have me rubbing my hands together in anticipation. No, not just the fancy glitzy type; as long as the food is great and the place (and the utensils, too) is clean, expect me to be the first in line.
Now, I've been to many eat-outs but I'd like to recap my favorite spots in case I get into one of those dilemmas of itching to gobble good food but don't know where to go. Those places called "kahit saan" or "ikaw bahala" are the worst suggestions for a hungry person.
These are my pocket-friendly hole-in-the-walls:
Resto hopping has become an adventure for me. Scouring the city for newly opened dining spots always have me rubbing my hands together in anticipation. No, not just the fancy glitzy type; as long as the food is great and the place (and the utensils, too) is clean, expect me to be the first in line.
Now, I've been to many eat-outs but I'd like to recap my favorite spots in case I get into one of those dilemmas of itching to gobble good food but don't know where to go. Those places called "kahit saan" or "ikaw bahala" are the worst suggestions for a hungry person.
These are my pocket-friendly hole-in-the-walls:
- Sinangagan - just a little off of McArthur Highway in Lolomboy, Bocaue. Their bulalo in unrivalled, IMHO. Servings come in medium and large sizes. When they say medium-sized is good for 2, they really mean good for 4. One medium-sized serving of bulalo: P180
- Almerz - a house converted into a lowly sizzling house near UST dapitan side. Serves the best effing sisig on that side of the metropolis. And with their bottomless gravy policy, who could argue? Sisig with rice (good for one): P50
- Mang Jimmy's - in UP. Used to have bogus combos that made us coming back in the first place: 2+1, 4+2. And eat all you kanin. Also serves yummy sisig topped with mayonnaise. One sizzling plate of sisig = P100 (relatively cheap since it's bottomless rice and proportions are meant for sharing)
- Wai Ying - in Salazar St., Binondo. Serves wicked chinese food since, well, it's in Binondo and owned by chinese. An order of steamed tofu is P40, chao fan is P35, and a noodle soup bowl of roast duck is, can you believe, P75? Try ordering the same at Oody's and they'll charge you P210 plus VAT plus service charge, and it's not even half as good as Wai Ying's.
- Buddy's - almost every office in Makati knows about Buddy's, what with their bilaos of pancit being the main order for office gatherings. I'm not a pancit person, though, so I dig their moist sisig and creamy leche flan. Half order of sisig plus rice (good for one): P90
- S.R. Thai Cuisine - with 2 branches near UST. Why do I love it? Rice + meat + whole chili STRIPS + some weird thai sauce + chili sauce = happy me. :) One order of chili pork/beef rice = P65
- Lugawan sa Pasong Tamo - open 24 hours. Serves delicious lugaw (rice porridge) for P6 per bowl. I have no interest knowing what they put in there and what makes it yellow. Eating with you are the tricycle and jeepney drivers and other members of the DEF classes. Haven't gotten a case of LBM or amoebiasis after eating there, so I guess the food's pretty safe. Lugaw is one of my comfort foods, and it's a good choice of grub after a night-long drinking spree.
So there. Hopefully I'll have time to make sequels to this entry. Haha, what can I say? I love food. ^_^
Labels: food bits
posted by Aquabitch | | Permalink 
do you have any entries for intramuros area?
wanna go visit the old place
Posted by
Quentin |
2/06/2006 2:47 PM
You mean aside from the wall? Hmmm lemme think about it. :)
Posted by
Aquabitch |
2/06/2006 4:30 PM