Its my second week now in Angeles, doing some moonlighting. My friend happens to own this school here in Angeles and we're doing a physical exam on all the students - elementary, high school and college. And it's about 3,000 students all in all. When I checked with the nurse earlier today, I found out, that we haven't PE'd even 25% of the student body!! Gosh. Its not that we've been doing really HARD work to finish all off...but then, after 2 weeks, we haven't gone past the high school students. We're only done with 2 sections of grade school. Ha ha.
But the best thing about this stint is that 1) the pay is good and 2) I get the nights off. That means I can go around Angeles and try all the nice restaurants in town. Unbelievably there are a lot of them here. What's nice about these quaint, homey restaurants is that the owners are foreigners: meaning you get authentic Italian, Creole, Japanese meals all the time. Lets have a run down of the restaurants that we tried:
HANAMI. Great Japanese restaurant off Friendship Boulevard. The sushi is made fresh and tastes different too! It's better than the local Japanese chains like Kitaro and Sushi-Ya. (Tokyo-Tokyo is out of the question.) But mind you, the stuff there is expensive. The ambiance is so-so and when we were there...they were showing a Japanese news program. Quite irritating. P1200 for a sushi platter (for 2), miso soup, tonkatsu and San mig light. Not bad for the experience.
COTTAGE HOUSE. A few meters down from Hanami. They serve authentic Creole and Southern style cooking in here. The ambiance is hole-in-the-wall kind with lots of shadows and cigarette smoke. Looks like a place where you deal with the mafia or have dinner with an awful date. Food is superb, though. The baby back ribs are mouth watering. I even dreamt about it when we were in Manila. P870 for a baby back ribs meal (which includes beans and mashed potato), buffalo wings and 2 san mig light. Cheap for a good meal.
ALING LUCING. If I dream about Cottage House, I'm getting an orgasm when I think about Aling Lucing's sisig. Not with Aling Lucing. It's just near the train tracks and they serve heavenly, cholesterol-laden, mushy sisig. Their burong kanin is good also. I must if you visit Angeles. Ultra cheap too. P456 for 2 sisigs, 2 pwet ng manok, burong kanin and 2 san mig lights. Yum!
BAMBINO'S. We just spotted this Italian restaurant when we came home one day (after eating I guess from Hana-mi or Cottage House) Looks tattered, though, but to our amazement and glee, they serve authentic Pizza Margarita! I never had pizza this good in the Philippines! Its a basic cheeze-tomato-basil pizza that needs to be cooked in a stone oven to get that right crisp. They did it the authentic way and I'm quite happy about it. Can't stop munching on those wedges! P850 for a small pizza, a serving of eggplant pagmigiana and a half carafe of red wine. Not Bad.
After all of those food trips during my stay here in Angeles, I'm worrying about squeezing myself into my old jeans. I only have size 32 x 32 jeans and I vehemently refuse to buy anything larger than that. If it doesn't fit, it means I have to do something about my weight. Not much of a problem, though, because I lose weight so fast. But how can you resist these fabulous eats in the Philippines? Oh well, as I would always say, life is too short anyway...
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