Let's eat, Pampanga!

By three in the afternoon, we were all tired and sleepy. But we still have three stops to find, and the best one - recommended by bloggers and restarateurs - is yet to come.

Our next stop is iconic and popular Razon's famous for their halo-halo. No surprise there, because we already know how their halo-halo tastes like. In the interest of pagtitipid and over-all kabusugan, the four of us shared one serving of halo-halo. Yes, only one. One by one, we trooped to the restaurant, lugging our heavy equipment behind us, and then called to the waitress,

"Ate, isa ngang halo-halo."

And then she waited. And she waited some more. Then finally she asked, scanning our faces.

"Isa lang po?" Hahahaha.





Now, for some pasalubong shopping at Pampanga's best. I got curious about their turones de casuy because Jeremy was excited about it. He said it really tasted good. I am a fan of turones but I have yet to find one more delicious than at Eurobake's. So I tried their version. I wasn't sure if you can eat the white wide wrapper that comes with the turones, but Jeremy said it can be eaten, and that it tastes like ostia. The wrapper hides the candied cashew nuts inside. I think I still like Eurobake's more traditional version better.



And now for the star of this food trip -- Everybody's Cafe.

Before embarking on this food trip, I read a review of this restaurant in Flavors magazine, and again on one or two blogs, when I searched in Google. And when the attendant in Susie's Cuisine heard that we are on a food trip, she suggested that we try Everybody's Cafe which serves exotic Pampanga cuisine. Jeremy was actually willing to try their crickets.

It was getting dark and some of cannot wait for the food trip to be over. But on we searched for the mythical Everybody's Cafe. And then we got there. And it all went downhill from there.

The interior looked clean, but it has that distinct hospital smell, which would have been forgiveable if you were in fact, in a hospital. Their exotic crickets come at a hefty price, P200 for a small plate of crickets, which do not look delectable at all. So we settled for their batute, fried frogs with fillings in their stomach.



I've eaten frog a lot of times - fried, tinola, sinampampalukan - but for the uninitiated, frog simply tastes a lot like chicken. I like it specially when it is crunchy. At home, we get these frogs for free, but here in Everybody's Cafe, they come at P80 per serving. We were expecting at least three frogs per serving, but no! Only one pregnant frog arrived. Kung di lang talagang sineseryoso namin tong food trip na to, gusto na namin sabihin, are you effin' kidding me?

Good thing we still have one more stop before we call it a night. Nathaniel's. Yey!







Whew!!! Til next time!