Daughter invited me to go shopping with her on Friday night at SM Megamall’s Fashion Mall. She was done shopping for winter gears at Uniqlo when I arrived at 7:00 pm.
While waiting for her on the ground floor, I walked to Zara. Within 5 minutes I was already in their fitting room. In less than ten minutes, I was done. Bought two dresses both sized medium.
Our next destination was food. Yen said there are two restaurants she wanted to try, one is Japanese, one is Fireside by Kettle serving American food. They are located on the third floor of SM Megamall’s Fashion Mall, steps from each other. The Japanese one is full plus more people waiting for tables. Fireside has one vacant table for two. I chose this, next time na lang kako yung Japanese.
She ordered potato chips. I knew it would be a big plate because I saw the waiter bringing a plate to the table next to ours.
We thought we wouldn’t be able to finish this massive plate of potato chips with blue cheese. We did finish all of it. The potato chips were cooked perfectly and crispy. I didn’t like the blue cheese dressing. I was looking for more taste and a little salt.
The waiter said this Asian Shrimp Salad is good to share with two or three people. My expectations were high because of this dish’s name- Shrimp Salad. I was expecting to see big shrimps. No, I had to dig down to look for them. Aside from tiny, one shrimp was sliced into several pieces to make them seem like aplenty. They should just call this Asian Salad, and not put shrimp in the headline.
The dressing was supposed to be lime cilantro but they came too oily, like a slick of oil. This salad was not bad, but it was short of my expectations. I didn’t finish it, I just looked for the tiny shrimps, ate some veggies, then left about 70% of the salad.
I don’t mind going back to this restaurant but no more order of Asia Shrimp Salad for me.
I stole a tiny slice of Oyen’s steak salad. The meat was seasoned well and tasted good. I also ate some of the zucchini strips. I didn’t know about the salad portion. Oyen said it was good. She also couldn’t finish it so we wrapped some for my son.
My daughter wanted me to order another dish because my salad order failed. Instead, I just ate the potato chips, kaya naubos. Nasuya naman ako pagkatapos kasi ang dami, inubos ko. I filled my stomach with wasted calories. Puno ang tyan but my buds were disappointed.
She always pays.
