My wife and I embarks in our first out of town trip today for the last 3 years.\u00a0 Our plane leaves at 730 so we were at the airport by 5am to avoid any checking hassle.\u00a0 It was a good thing as the group of passengers ahead of our queue took a while as the counter crew, to their much chagrin, tried to explain to them the concept of “allowable hand luggage”. <\/p>\n
We were done with the checking procedures by 545am. With stomachs grumbling,\u00a0 we scouted the food stalls and the choices were a bit meager: a rice\/noodle vendor, go nuts donuts,\u00a0 Krispy Kreme donuts,\u00a0 Mrs fields cookies,\u00a0 chaikofi cafe,\u00a0 and two kiosks of a sandwich vendor. The rice-chowing Asian in me made the choices clear: rice toppings for me. <\/p>\n
The pickings were limited as most of the menu items are not available. I settled for chicken asado toppings with coke in can,\u00a0 and my wife ordered the two pieces of siopao (asado and bola-bola)\u00a0 with bottled water.\u00a0 The bill was Php310. Pretty steep price so my expectations already rose up.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
The food came in quickly. The asado came with 3 quarter inch slices of chicken with asado sauce and spring onion bits. The siopao were the size of teacups.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
The food fare was,\u00a0 for lack of a more positive adjective,\u00a0 “geared towards the international palate”.\u00a0 The chicken was butter soft.\u00a0 Oh wait that was the plastic spoon and fork that came with the meal.\u00a0 You have heard the joke about siopao being made from cat meat?\u00a0 Well this is different as the siopao feels as hot as a cat’s nose. My wife’s first bite was a smorgasbord of flavor: she couldn’t identify the flavor.\u00a0 She ended up not finishing the second siopao so it was up to me to get our money’s worth. I am grateful for the Chili oil in the table because I don’t know if I would have done without it. <\/p>\n
What’s good with the food?\u00a0 The coke in can was cold,\u00a0 and the Chili oil has the right spiciness and bite. <\/p>\n
What was bad?\u00a0 Everything else.\u00a0 Next time you are in the area,\u00a0 choose the branded franchises as you would know what to expect. And don’t listen to the instincts of a hungry stomach. <\/p>\n
The kiosk’s name is “Let’s Chow”\u00a0 with the tag line “mapapa-chow ka”\u00a0 (i think a weak play on the wow expression).\u00a0 All I can say on that is “pu-chow naman o”\u00a0 (my play on a local curse phrase).\u00a0 If I paid thrice the amount of a similar fate from 7-11 then I expect the flavor to be as good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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