Grilled boneless chicken with house teriyaki sauce, served with two scoops of rice, one scoop macaroni salad, and vegetables.
Ono Hawaiian BBQ, San Francisco CA
Meh, I wasn’t too impressed with this. The chicken was a bit dry and the teriyaki sauce too salty. I think I’ll stick to their regular bbq items next time.
Jessie Square.
With eggplants and miso sauce. $13
Wasabi Bistro, San Francisco CA
This was actually really good! I loved the thick eggplant medallions supporting each tender, juicy scallop. The miso sauce was also delicious.
Edamame. Complimentary
Bbq chicken and bbq beef, served with two scoops of rice, one scoop macaroni salad, and vegetables.
Ono Hawaiian BBQ, San Francisco CA
Ugh, the beef was really dry and gristly! The chicken was ok. I appreciate that Hawaiian bbq is fatty but I think these were especially greasy, yuck. The scoop of macaroni salad did help to ease my disappointment.
Sissy^2 sidewalk stencil, Noe Valley.
Grilled chicken quarter with garlic rice and vegetables.
Holy Cow!, Manila PHILIPPINES
The chicken tasted fine, a little dry in some parts. But the yellow plate really bothered me for some reason. I thought it was an unfortunate color to serve food on especially with an ill-fitting cast iron plate on top.
War time flag of the Philippines, Malacanan Palace. During war (I don’t remember which one – it was a long tour), the Philippines swapped the positions of the red and blue sections of the flag, rarely done by any other country.
With curry sauce. 240 PHP
Mr. Choi Kitchen, Manila PHILIPPINES
So this was really pieces of Chinese bbq pork with yellow curry sauce over steamed rice. Huh, not what I expected. It tasted fine, but the curry sauce was really heavy so I really couldn’t eat very much.
Quill and ink sidewalk paver design, Intramuros.
Grilled chicken, steamed vegetables, rice, chicken jicama salad, dinner roll, mango parfait. Complimentary
Manila (MNL) to San Francisco (SFO), Philippine Airlines
Chicken inasal is a well known Ilonggo dish of marinated chicken that’s grilled. I don’t think I’d ever had it before, but this airplane version wasn’t very good. I don’t know what spices they used, but it was kind of sour and unpleasant tasting. I’m not sure how authentic the PAL version was, but I don’t think I’d eat it again if that was how it was supposed to taste.
Filipino street food cart with banana cue, potato wedges, and what I think are large lumpias?
Served with rice and gravy. 120 PHP
Jollibee, Manila PHILIPPINES
I think the counter person liked me because not only did I get a notepad (nobody else seemed to be getting one), but he also gave me two large pieces of chicken instead of just the thigh and leg pictured on the menu. Score, lol! The fried chicken at Jollibee is pretty tasty especially dipped into gravy. Mmm.
Plaza San Luis Complex, Intramuros.
Prawns 700 PHP, Cooking service 250 PHP
Plato D’Boracay Resto, Boracay PHILIPPINES
This was a new, amazing experience for me! So there’s a great fish market a few blocks from the Boracay Regency called d*talipapa. You’re supposed to go purchase whatever you want to eat, then bring your fresh seafood to the cooking service restaurants in the market to cook it up for you! Awesome, right? Thank goodness my friend Robert is fluent in Tagalog because I don’t think I could have haggled with the fish mongers and then communicated with the cooks to let them know how we wanted the food the be prepared.
These prawns were SO good! They were super fresh and had so much flavor. I guess when you have that much butter and garlic, everything is better. 🙂
Rice. 75 PHP
d*talipapa fish market.
Longanisa (pork sausage), garlic rice, fried egg, chicken tocino, fish nuggets with tartar sauce.
Boracay Regency, Boracay PHILIPPINES
Argh, the final breakfast in Boracay! It was an awesome island visit and I hope to be back in the future. AND this was probably my favorite breakfast options during our stay at the Regency, so it was a great to end on a positive note.
Crocodile Island.
Beef, pork, garlic rice, scrambled eggs, bacon, pancit.
Boracay Regency, Boracay PHILIPPINES
Ugh, I couldn’t stop filling my breakfast plate with SO much food every morning! I really didn’t have to eat so much and I wasn’t even that hungry, but I couldn’t pass up on tasting a little bit of everything. Hehe!
Waffle, ube (purple yam) bun, fruit, cheese bun.
Boracay sunset, Station 2.
Steamed rice, sherry herb gravy, buttermilk biscuits, squash casserole. Per person $20
Hutch Bar & Kitchen, Oakland CA
Omg, talk about value – there was so much food on this plate for 2 people! We definitely took a lot of this home. The chicken was really good, and I was really happy about the steamed rice. It had a soft consistency almost liked mashed potatoes and tasted great with the sherry herb gravy. The squash casserole was really salty so it wasn’t my favorite. The biscuit tasted good, but were on the hard, dense side.
The Boulevardier: Bulleit bourbon, gran classic, aperol, orange twist. $11
Stir fried rice tossed with pork sisig and topped with fried egg. 130 PHP
Mesa, Boracay PHILIPPINES
This was good, but I wish that there was more pork sisig tossed in. It really just tasted like regular fried rice and I missed a lot of the sisig flavor. I do love a runny egg on anything though!
People getting the dead skin on their feet eaten by fish in the tank at My Fish Spa. Don’t know if I’d like this. 🙂
Vittle Monster 