Friday, August 17, 2007

Barrio Fiesta

Student classes were called off the night before and the rains by the storm "Egay" that turned into a Super Typhoon dropped more rainfall into the wet and dripping metropolis. I went to Ford Global City for my car's periodic oil change and check-up.

Chay and Maidette were not joining us for lunch. Mimi has not arrived yet so, me, Rene and Gentley agreed to eat by our threesome at Barrio Fiesta. Barrio Fiesta is a filipino restaurant that specializes in Kare-Kare (beef in peanut stew) and crispy pata (pork leg). We thought, we should load up on cholesterol for once and enjoy our lunch.

As it was raining outside, we planned to eat in our building's food court at the second floor. It seemed everyone had the same plans as ours when we saw the very long queue of people trying to get their food. We abandoned the idea and decided to fetch our umbrellas as we tropped to the nearby Barrio Fiesta. I warned Rene and Gentley that we may be "too early" for lunch yet, it may take us a while to secure a table at the resto. True enough, the place was packed with diners and we were third in the wait list.

After about 20 minutes of waiting, we got to our table. As we have pre-ordered our food, it did not take much time to get served. We digged the crispy pata, it was so crunchy, so tasty, we forgot all about the bad cholesterol it harbored in its skin and meat. The kare-kare was not spared as Gentley asked for separate servings of the sweet and spicy shrimp bagoong (shrimp paste) to complement the stew.

We came out of our meal quite sated and happy. We paid Php230.00 each for this trip to Barrio Fiesta. It was a steal of a meal indeed.

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