01.23.10

Dining at Cabalen’s

Posted in Playing the Tourist, food and restaurants at 1:40 am by Administrator

Since I’m starting to collect a lot of food pics, this post will be devoted to more food, particularly Filipino food.  Cabalen’s is a restaurant chain devoted to Filipino food. It’s kind of like a Filipino version of Hometown Buffet, but Filipino all-you-can-eat.  Although I am a full-fledged American and love the great variety of restaurants in Los Angeles, I much prefer Cabalen’s to Hometown buffet, which I think is icky cause Hometown’s food is like TV dinners, ick.   Cabalen’s is more like home cooking.  Here’s a pic of part of their buffet spread.

Here’s another shot of the buffet.

And another.

Here’s a closer shot of one of the dishes.  This one is called “dinuguan” made of pork and pork blood.

Here’s closer shot of a clam dish in black bean sauce.

Another close up of one type of pancit.  (noodle dish)  There are many varieties of pancits in the Philippines.  This is a very common Filipino dish that is served at practically every Filipino party, so anyone who’s tasted Filipino food would likely have tasted pancit at one time or another.

There were too many to take a picture of all the dishes available, so I’ll just add a final picture of one of Aaron’s favorites that he’s been chowing down on almost every day since we got here. . . mango.

Hmmm.  I should devote a post to Filipino desserts.  Filipinos love desserts, and one post won’t be enough room for them, so I might have to make a few.

Okay, so we’re heading off to Palawan where I won’t be able to upload any pictures.  I hope I’ll have a lot of nice ones to share when we return to Manila on Thursday.  Toodles for now!

Marlakins

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