February 15, 2019 Friday
We reached the Tagaytay rotunda at 11:45 am. The usual deliberation was where to eat?
E—-“Balay Dako”
A—-“yung mabilis lang, fast food, Mang Inasal”.
E—-‘Napaka-kayotic dun.”
After some convincing, my husband agreed to eat here.
We had difficulty finding a parking slot because this location only have a few slots, for less than 10 vehicles. I got off and made pakiusap to the neighboring gasoline station if we could park for a half hour and the guy agreed.
The tiny ground floor space was for order-taking only. The tables were on the second floor. We ordered inasal, paa (leg).
There was no available table on the cramped dining area. I saw a vacant seat beside a group of women all wearing gray. I was about to ask them if we could share a table with them when I noticed their heads were bowed and hands clasped together. Naku mga madre pala, taimtim na nagdadasal before eating. I didn’t want to sit with them, hindi kami makakakain na mabuti.
This tray of 5 halo-halo was for them. Inggit ako.
We were hungry already, tagal ng food namin. I had nothing to do but observe the other people eating. Most of them were drowning their rice with this chicken oil. Ginagawang sauce. alam nyo mahal ang oil sa grocery, think of it, if this is provided unlimited, that means mura lang itong klaseng oil na ito. Saan ito galing? What kind of oil is this? Bago nyo itaktak sa kanin nyo, alamin muna kung tataas ba cholesterol nyo dito?
Anim na beses kaming nagpa-pa-follow-up, it’s been 35 minutes, eh diba I told the gasoline boy we would only park for half hour? We chose to eat here thinking that service would be faster, aba eh parang fine dining.
The waitress going table to table distributing hot soup didn’t want to give Edmund and I soup. We had to wait daw till our orders had been served before she would give soup. Ay hilo na mga bulate ko sa gutom. Kahit sana mainit na sabaw. Para kaming kawawa na ayaw bigyan ng soup. Penge nga ng mainit na sabaw. Huhuhuhu.😩😩😩😩😩😩
A—-“Asan yung resibo natin? Bababa ako.”
E—-“Huwag na, hayaan mo na.”
I went down to the ground floor. There was only one person taking orders and payments. There were many people waiting for their food or table, and many more standing in line to order. Ano pipila rin ba ako just to follow up on our food? Sumingit na lang ako by asking the staff “miss, ipa-follow up ko order namin, mahigit kalahating oras na. Nasan na yung manok, hinuhuli pa ba?” One customer in line repeated what I said “yung manok hinuhuli pa”. Still not content, I looked for their kitchen. I went there and asked ‘asan na yung order namin ang tagal-tagal naman. A woman answered ni-lo-load na daw. Ni lo load? Ano yun cellphone? 😳😳😳 Ang sungit ko. Bad trip na talaga ako kasi duling na ako sa gutom. Kaya nga kami dito nagpunta eh para mabilis tapos napaka bagal pala.
Our food finally arrived at 12:36 pm. The back part of my chicken was sunog.
I tried to give the gasoline boy 20 pesos tip pero ayaw tanggapin. Nahiya kasi ako, I told him 30 minutes lang pero inabot kami ng 1 hour and 15 minutes.
