I’ve been passing by this place so many times but it was only a few days ago that I decided to finally dine here. Bought cookies and some goodies before but was really hesitant to dine here for some weird reason. They say it’s the oldest bakery here in Silay and the place definitely looked ancient.

Anyway, others told me to try the pancit, dinuguan, and the apple-guava pie but I tried the egg pie, grilled spareribs, breaded pork chop, and breaded chicken. I also tried their la paz batchoy. The breaded pork and grilled sparerib were okay. I don’t recommend the chicken and egg pie (melted when I got back to the office!). The la paz batchoy was not amazing (too oniony) when I think about it now, but I thought it was perfect the time I ordered it since it was raining heavily then.

No photo of the grilled sparerib since I ran out of batt but it looked a lot like a pork chop sans the skin.

Their cookies and biscuits are quite good (though not exactly cheap)! Please try the angel cookies with chocolate chip and the one with the caramel filling (bottom pic). Too bad they don’t sell Napoleones anymore. I badly need to find a store that sells this delicious pastry.

Finally! I thought my laziness would win! But several power outages throughout the day convinced me that I should definitely go out instead of scrubbing the bathroom floor.

I thought I had the commuting thing figured out since I read the directions well on how to get to this place everyone’s talking about. When I got to the terminal though, people there STRONGLY advised that I should definitely take a cab. 350 pesos for bringing me there and the driver would wait for me and will bring me to Chinatown after.

350 pesos cab fair + 50 pesos village or subdivision entrance + 80 pesos entrance at the Ruins. Well I guess it’s not so bad since it was safer and more comfortable than riding a tricycle.

The mansion was really fancy and beautiful. You can just imagine how majestic this place was before it was burned down. The land around it was vast! I wonder how tiresome it must have been to maintain it.

This would be a great place to hold events like weddings or debut parties but not for sight seeing. I got disinterested after a few minutes of taking pictures. There’s really not much to see! Plus the lovey doveys there were so annoying, as if in every turn there’s a pre-nup photo op.

I went to 888 Chinatown after! Bought a couple of stuff for myself then went to Café Bob’s for dinner, where I scalded my tongue when I tried to battle with the carbonara, which tasted pretty dull. I mean, I’m sure I can make a better one. But the green apple fruit tea was delish! I’ll try their cakes some other time.

This was a productive and expensive day. I hope I can visit the museum in Bacolod next week and hopefully find delicious but affordable food.

It started with the baby back ribs, then the grilled liempo, then tocino, and I noticed I’m having lunch in B+ C almost every day. I love this place because it’s a couple of steps away from where I’m staying at. Plus, it’s a comfy place to dine at; it’s usually not crowded before 12PM, it’s well lit, there’s WI-FI, cable TV, and interior’s not hard to the eyes.

Not bad for 160 pesos. It’s not fall off the bone tender but not too tough either. It was pretty okay for me.
My favorite! I don’t know if it was because I haven’t had grilled liempo for a long time or it was just good. The serving size is good enough for an extra rice for some. 160 pesos, too.
I can probably live off tocino for weeks. Two fried eggs, buttered rice, and slices of sweet pork. 100 pesos!
Beef tips. I don’t know how to describe this dish. It’s like salpicao without the dark sauce. It’s buttery and garlicky. I ordered an extra side of potatoes and carrots with honey mustard dressing. I think this was all I ate the whole day.
B+C’s spaghetti. Too sour for my taste. Like most pinoys, I like mine sweet and spicy. I think I can make a better red sauce spaghetti than this one. 100 pesos.
Ham and cheese sandwich served with fries. Nothing special and honestly, I got a little disappointed when I saw my order. 100 pesos.
Burger steak! The sauce was a little too creamy and salty for me. You’ll be served with two thin beef patties on a sizzling plate with generous mushroom sauce all over. 160 pesos.
Cute longganizas. Wouldn’t recommend this meal. 100 pesos.
It’s probably because I’ve had really good sisig before that this came as a big disappointment. 160 pesos.
Grilled spareribs. I really enjoyed this one. I think I was saying “yum” while chewing. The serving was good, too. Downside, not well done and no sidings! Good thing they were nice enough to give me spicy vinegar. 160 pesos.
Beef steak. The usual pinoy bistek only a little sweeter. Didn’t get to enjoy this much because of my scalded tongue. I’m sure this would have been a better meal if they served more of the buttered corn and carrots. 160 pesos.
Hopefully I’ll be able to try out the rest before I go home. Only one item from the special menu I haven’t tried, the bangus.

Food price is from 100 to 160. They serve pastas, burgers, breakfast meals, and their specials. Coffee is from 40 to 60, I think. A slice of cake is 80.

Will update in a few days.

And happy independence day, Philippines!

My mom, like always, posted something in Facebook about how significant this day is to all of us. Especially me.

Anyway, I was home the whole day and didn’t have anything better to do. After finishing some chores and running a few errands, we just watched TV. Few stupid shows later, my housemate asked if I’d like to have some coffee at a shop slash restaurant near our place. Hey, why not?

All we wanted was to hangout, have some coffee, and spend the night peacefully. Well, things completely turned around when we said yes to an invitation to join the street party happening at the plaza.

People were everywhere! It was crazy. I literally rubbed elbows with many people. I did not expect it to be so jam-packed! You can tell everyone’s having fun even though beer was expensive. It must have been because of the insanely delicious chicken isaw. I’ve tried pork isaw, but I never liked chicken isaw. However, what they sell around here is so heavenly, I had no reasons not to try it! People around me then must have felt really irritated hearing me say over and over how good it was! Or that I gobbled up everything served to us.

It was a very fun night indeed. Good food, cold drinks, and fun people. Let’s do this again!

Silay’s version of Dampa. There are several seafood restaurants in Balaring and we chose Melken’s. I thought it would smell of fish and the sea (unpleasant kind) because the restaurants sit on top of the water, but the air was clear and you won’t get that sticky feeling either (unlike when you’re at Roxas Boulevard, for example) after staying for quite a while.

I’m so sorry my photos didn’t do the dishes any justice. I badly wanted to re-arrange the plates and take many shots but I was dining with very important people so I only took photos when Miss Yay said, “O picture-an mo na tapos upload na!” I guess she sensed that I was sitting unpleasantly by her side doing nothing while one dish was being brought to our table after another, so she cheered me on. Embarrassing but it was worth all the envy I got from people in the office.

We ordered lots! Sinigang, sizzling bangus, calamares, inihaw na liempo, stuffed pusit, and fried rice. I couldn’t stop from exclaiming “Ang sarap!” in between bites. The food was really good!

You should definitely eat here. It’s quite far from the city proper but it’s worth it.

The first thing I was really worried about the moment we landed in Silay was food. I have no idea what to expect and I didn’t do any research about restaurants or places with good food.

Here are some we’ve tried so far:

1. Food Park

The crispy pata was okay, nothing special. The kare-kare was awful. It was bitter and it had more bones than meat! We didn’t really appreciate it when the staff started cleaning everywhere and putting the chairs on top of the tables while we were still eating. It really felt like they were rushing us and all the dirt they were swiping off the tables were flying to ours.

2. Sir/Ma’am Restaurant

We ordered lechon kawali and morcon. The lechon kawali did taste like lechon! But the morcon was like a gigantic lumpiang shanghai or embotido, nothing like the morcon we’re used to having.

3. Greenoz

The food here was surprisingly good! Great value for your money. The monstrous pizzas back home were usually famous because of their size but the taste isn’t so satisfying. Here, they actually taste great! Thin crust, loaded with toppings, and very affordable.

4. Hestia’s Restaurant

Had high expectations for this place since I’ve read in some other blogs that the food here was pretty good. I had the chicken inasal and garlic rice. The chicken was pale and small while the garlic rice was too oily and not garlicky at all. Most importantly, they don’t have chili peppers! Might give it another shot though since a friend mentioned that their batchoy is very good.

5. 1925 Café

Probably never coming back here. I was rooting for this place since they serve pasta and cakes but I was completely disappointed when I ordered one of their bestsellers, the kangkong pesto with chicken bbq, and it was a little awful. The pasta was a bit too tough, not enough chicken meat, the pesto sauce looked like it didn’t want to be in the dish at all, and the bread stick was … out of place?

Their water container was very pretty though.

6. Manukan

We got lost looking for this place! Right after work, my boss and I drove to Bacolod City to meet up with Sir Paul and have dinner since it was his last night in Silay. He said the place was right across SM Bacolod. On our way there, we passed by Robinson’s which was just along the main road so we thought that SM will be along the main road, too. Boy were we wrong. Thank you GPS for helping us find the right way. Anyway, Manukan’s like a strip of barbecue restaurants and I didn’t get the name of the place we went to. The sisig was pretty delish and the chicken inasal, too (but it still had some blood near the bones).

7. Tito Chuck’s

So far, it’s one of my favorites. The utensils and dinnerware were well thought of (look at that palayok!). The sinigang (I forgot what kind of fish was in there) was very good; the sour taste was not overwhelming but the kick was there and the fish tasted fresh. The lechon kawali was not so bad but it’s still not as good as my favorite.

8. Pamilya Grill

Absolutely loved the buttered broccoli and cauliflower. It was the first time I ever ate broccoli and I’m so happy it was with this dish. I forgot the name of the beef dish but it was similar to kaldereta but not as spicy. The sizzling bangus was kind of sad.

9. “Open 24 hours”

We have no idea what this place is called. We only saw “Open 24 hours” written at the store. It was near the big church. Anyway, the food wasn’t so bad for 39 pesos! Most of the dishes cost 39 pesos and they served a lot of sizzling something: tapa, tocino, porkchop, etc.

10. Caryen

I didn’t take any photos when we had dinner here but their kansi/bulalo was good and very affordable. It’s better than the ones I’ve had in Tagaytay (or anywhere else, actually).

I’m no food critic or blogger, okay? This is just to document my trip here and hopefully this can be a guide for my colleague who would possibly go here, too.