Baliwag Lechon Manok Liempo

Trish Santos

My wife had been here before and she wanted me to experience this restaurant. We finally had the opportunity to go today.We arrived at 11:15 and we were seated right away. We ordered the Pad Thai of course, and Garlic Prawn and Pork Satay. While waiting for our order to be served we were given a small dish of caramelized peanut which was quite good. After about 15 minutes the Pad Thai was served. I must say it looked different from the Pad Thais in the other Thai restaurants we've been to - and we've been to quite a number of them. This was because it had some scrambled eggs that "surrounded" the noodles. As for the taste - it was the best Pad Thai I had. The Garlic Prawns were delicious and was prepared in such a way that it was easy to remove the skin without having to use our bare hands. The Pork Satay was good, if a bit hard. Thankfully the peanut sauce was not spicy and just the way I wanted it. For dessert we had the Sticky Rice with Mango. There were parts of the mango that weren't that sweet yet.Overall it was a good experience. This place apparently is very popular as it was full by the time we left (a little before noon) considering this was a weekday. My only nit was that they only had two staff members who worked as servers and cashiers. To their credit they both worked diligently and did their best to please the customers.

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Dyan Eloisa Sumamban

Update review (June 23,2021) I read in a review here to try the aburi salmon hotate mayo. For 550pesos, it was supposed to be good. Disappointed though, it was bland for me. I'm not that of a website so i guess my taste won't be as refined as others. To future diners, maybe skip this because for me it isn't worth your money. We got the usual skewers which for ok. Supaishi salmon sashimi was spicy but good. The shake salmon roll was meh. Their iced tea was very good. Service was faster than usual. What's weird though was no one was at their gate to receive guests so we thought we'd wait by the thermometer and someone would come to assist. For sure, the waiters saw us but no one bothered to wave us in. We just decided to walk up to their desk inside and that's when they ushered us in. Pre-pandemic:We went on a Monday night and it was half-packed with diners. It's quite noisy but still fine for us. We were quickly seated and left with the menus. We ordered katsu curry, monster maki, spicy salmon sashimi, 2sticks of aspara bacon, 2sticks of enoki bacon and 2sticks of saikoro beef plus drinks. Katsu curry was the best! It was as described in reviews. 5/5 for me. It was very flavorful. Katsu wasn't dry. With hefty serving of the curry sauce. If you're hungry and you want a dish solely to yourself, better get this. Monster maki. We got this over the equally famous Oeda Maki which has unagi in it. This was filling too, 3 pcs and it made me feel full already. Nothing so special tho. 3.5/5 for meSkewers. I've always liked skewers especially the wagyu cubes. They were served hot. 4/5 for me

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