Milky Way

We entered Milky Way and my girls blurted : "mom, inuman yata ito !" (looks like a beer joint). I said no. It used to be famous for good food when I was younger. You mean, you were already eating here in the 50's? Excuse meeeh! I wasn't even born then yet !






But when I checked the menu, no recall of good food . Had I really eaten in Milky Way in my younger years?




The girls cut me and ordered easy : barbecues. J wanted a plate of sisig and some veggies for me- lumpiang ubod.

J liked the sisig

bbqs - too salty for the girls, they didn't finish them

lumpiang ubod was okey for me

lame dinner scene in this side of Las Pinas

It had been a long day for us. Maybe next time, we'll come back to try their specialties. Just so I could recall my past with Milky Way.

Another Bite of Floating Island

Bin' out for a lil' while. I had to check this food site of mine to find out when was the last time I posted. Not quite long ago, but I have this guilt feeling of abandoning this site for a little while. I feel that way cos I'm so updated in my other sites.

Sorry foodie folks :<. If you've been following me on my personal blog Monik Moments, you would know I've been frequenting hospitals these past weeks. No, I was not the patient_my loved ones. But ofcourse my foodie friends, it doesn't mean hospital makes me a lesser foodie. Nevah! What else watchers do in a hospital, aside from taking care of the patients? Eat!eat!eat!

My photo stocks are full of new food pics, waiting to be posted. All_ consumed while in the hospital. So now let me start with my favorite hospital restaurant : The Floating Island Restaurant of Makati Medical Center.




I first blogged about this so un-medical but almost-posh restaurant last year in June here. Everytime I meet cousin Che and my niece Bianx in Makati Med, always_ we would eat at Floating Island to savor the ever succulent crispy pata of this resto.

crispy pata

How can you resist this ?!!! Even the cardio patients I know, try to find hidden ways to take a feast of this plate. That's why, I called this resto so un-medical, how ironic_ it is located in the heart of the hospital.

I'm not complaining. It's a wonder to find such resto with its mouthwatering menus, in the middle of illness, depresssion, sadness even death. What a breather_ slurp! slurp!

fresh lumpia

If the crispy pata would kill a cardio patient, then there's this fresh lumpia for the diabetic. hehe! don't get me wrong, this is del - icious ! On the sweeter side , that's the issue. It's the sauce closer to commercial Goldilocks' version, only better.

adobo rice

Then we noticed a dish which was present to most tables. We ordered one for our table. The adobo rice. This version was big ! On meat! Not evident here, but the chicken and pork were cut large. Like a fried chicken cut. A plate could pass as one complete meal already.

lumpiang tinapa

We tried another new to us dish. The tinapa lumpia. Tinapa is a Filipino dried fish variant and the lumpia could be translated as rolls ( for my foreign friends :).




We took bites and looked where the tinapa went. The roll was stuffed with chinese noodles. A vinaigrette went well with this dish as dip. We liked this.





Actually, we like everything in the menu. Even their beverage concoctions are superb ! I just don't think a patient with medical condition and whose med diet is already limited from these sinful tasty dishes offered in the place, should be allowed to enter the place or the temptation is too risky to ignore.

Fresh Lumpia, A Street Food

Fresh lumpia is a staple in husband diet.Every morning of weekends,visits to his nearby hometown (Bacoor,Cavite) to eat this local delicacy is a regular activity.As a willing companion, I would usually consume 2 to 3 rolls at the most when I'm hungry and the guy would savor up to 10 rolls in one standing (yes, standing,there's no chair and table there).




Flash back to his childhood in the town of Bacoor,this fresh lumpia was his street food.It was sold in a cart pushed in the streets of the town by a familiar Aling Doray,now a local legend, the vendor.Young and adults then would gather around the cart to buy and eat the fresh lumpia using a common spoon to put the sauce and chili-garlic to the freshly bitten rolls and alternately share the one and only wooden spoon!!




Back to the present, Aling Doray had passed away many years ago,and she took with her the famous wooden spoon.Good thing, she was able to pass down her recipe to her clan and thus the same fresh lumpia recipe that my husband used to savor when he was a kid is exactly the same fresh and delicious lumpia he is enjoying now with me and sometimes with the kids and relatives who get curious about this humbly delicious lumpia.






















taste.taste.taste


I went my way to learn to cook this at home.The recipe is actually very simple.The ingredients are nothing but familiar and commonly available anywhere in our country.













My own version of this recipe is already a favorite of my family at home. Mine has lots of vegetable variations. But the weekend visits to the street cart continues.Simply because..and I super agree with him_a street food is best savor in the street!!Wherelse??!!!