EJ Padero dot Com: Volume 1

Don’t let the frown fool you. Last night. Saturday. Driver-mode. My Mom. Tita Mousie. At Pilita’s restaurant bar again. Greenhills, San Juan.

Filling food. Real music, like “Some Enchanted Evening” and “Seventh Dawn”. Broadway. Tito Linc and daughter Francine duet. Master pianist Pros (not Prospero, but Proseso) is a chemical engineer.

Got more acquainted with the bar. Vodka mix. San Miguel Pale Pilsen.

Ever-present are German “Kuya Germs” Moreno and owner Pilita Corrales – “Asia’s Queen of Songs”. Last time I was there, Vina Morales. Surprisingly petite, but very fit. Can probably kick my ass.

It’s one of the house specialties slash novelty dishes of a place named Green Ats in Tagaytay.

Upon seeing the sign and after verifying that it really did say “Hot Sizzling Buko”, my culinary curiosity got started. I wondered about things like, “Will it taste like chicken?”, and “Will I be able to stomach it?”, or “The toilet isn’t very fancy. Maybe I should have some Imodium ready before I try it.”

Unfortunately, the sizzling buko wasn’t available the first time I was at Green Ats. Even the waiter, who was new, admitted he didn’t know what it looked nor tasted like. It then became a reason to return, which I was able to do last night.

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From Italian to Mexican, the menu is tomatos galore

Wanna try my kung fu? Tomato style. Hiiyaaa!

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After attending mid-morning Easter Mass and while the father was visiting his parental units in Cagayan de Oro, we headed South and up to Tagaytay and then to Nasugbu, both in Batangas.

It took around an hour and a half to get to Tagaytay through moderate weekend traffic. Though I once did clock in at just 45 minutes – picture Maritess the Revo doing Initial-D impressions around mountains at past midnight. It seemed every Juan dela Cruz and his mother were up in Tagaytay! The eventual drive back down to Manila took, guess what! Four freakin’ hours! I had my foot just holding and releasing the brakes all the way down to level ground in Cavite.

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GRAMS Diner, Rockwell: From shakes to steaks
Gorged on bigass burgers with Ryan and Chico