Refreshing Service in a Restaurant

I found a new wifi site! And they have great service (the kind I look for in a prospective tambayan)!

Today I have a meeting later at 3:00pm here in the city. In my confusion, I thought the meeting was at 1:30pm. So here I was, rushing from my morning meeting with my van association (which was right after mass) to ride a van to come to the city, just to learn that I was an hour and a half early.

Oh well, no worries.. I can have a late lunch and enjoy some wifi while waiting.

Our meeting is to be held at THAI ME UP Restaurant along Capistrano St., CDO City. I order the Beef Noodle Soup (cut down on rice again) and their bottomless Lemon Grass Iced Tea and I settle down to use the internet... BUT... I forgot to bring my plug adaptor! Arrrggghh!

I don't usually ask this of the restaurant I surf in but I asked (if they have) to borrow their adaptor. I didn't expect them to have one, but lo and behold! They did! It took a few minutes and the waiter kept asking what kind of adaptor I needed, but they were able to find one. Now that's what I call service! Plus, the food arrived just minutes before the item was brought to me, so I am now enjoying this simple meal of soup and surf. (Btw, the soup is delicious, with tender beef slices and an abundance of bokchoy and mongo sprouts mixed in with white rice noodles. The iced tea is chilled with just a mild flavor of lemon grass. Healthy!)

Try it! (the food, I mean... Bring your own adaptor. =))

Rooms of Comfort

Have you noticed the great improvement in the quality of restaurant comfort rooms/washrooms lately?  Sometimes it's not the restaurant I evaluate for the standard I promote but the comfort room.  And it's not just the inside I'm talking about, but also the outside.  Coz when you have an interesting exterior, the interior will just be icing on the cake:

@ Sentro 1850, CDO City

(inside, you really feel like a prinsipe and prinsesa)

@  Max Restaurant, Cubao, Quezon City 

(cluck, cluck!)

@  Loboc River, Bohol

(eyh?  there's WiFi inside the comfort room?)

Continuing the Search...

Bukidlife's Resto Choice: Jay-J's Inasal

On our way to the Northern parts of the Philippines, we found ourselves feeling hungry for authentic Filipino food, with that touch of Ilokano fare.  We didn't want to go into SM because it was a mall, and the whole point in taking the roadtrip was to get away from the hustle and bustle of the city.  We found this impressive place instead:

Jay-J's Inasal: The Filipino Restaraunt, located at Rosales City Highway, Pangasinan

We had been on the road for four hours and were very hungry with a capital H.  Our order of pork barbecue, chicken inasal, the famous Ilokanong pinakbet and free soup made short work and we went away knowing we'd just had a good meal.  I highly recommend this restaurant, not only for it's delicious cuisine, but also for their attentive service.

Keep on tasting!