Chicken. I really do
not know what made you so charming but most Filipinos love chicken. Tinola,
Adobo, Fried Chicken. There’s Max’s, Jollibee, Mang Inasal, Baliwag, Andok’s
and much more. And because of our love for it, Max’s and Jollibee are now in
other countries too!
It’s funny how we always think that whenever we have a balikbayan friend or relative around, we
assume that they want to eat Filipino food. You’d be surprised that most of
them are more Filipino than we are and they get to eat Filipino food more
frequent than us who are here.
We were thrilled when M and D are both here in Manila. We
immediately planned a reunion as we just have to. Last time I saw M was way
back in 2009 and it was over a year since I last saw D. However, D’s oh so cute
baby got sick so she had to back out. But we still pushed through with the plan
and met up with M.
Thinking that most of us are near Ortigas (except for K), we
decided to have dinner at Shangri-La. We were all late except for T. (Sorry!!!)
Since we were all famished and because T was at the 4th
floor of the East Wing, we decided to have dinner at Balboa. I got so excited
when we all agreed to eat there as I will get to eat my favorite roasted
chicken!
The place was pretty packed when we arrived and it was around
8:45 p.m. already that time. We got a table though but it was farthest from the
counter so the servers can’t really see us right away. Lucky though that there
were a lot of people eating outside so there were servers who pass by every 5
minutes.
