Irony

Since this has already become more of a food blog than anything else, I might as well bring it!

My friend HLD and I agreed to go to our friend's father's viewing on its last night, Friday.  However, the notification that the interment was rescheduled on Sunday came a little late that we were already on our way to our rendezvous.  And as I have previously established, I am not the kind of person that changes plans, so I went ahead and fetched HLD at SM Marikina.  She jokingly asked me if there would be food at the wake because she was already starving.  So the tourism minister in me went full-gear once again.  And since I am in a mission of making a simple meet-up into an adventure, we were not about to eat at Jollibee so I asked her if she could still bear it because I could take her to my usual food-trip starting point Cafe Lidia.  She agreed and we sped off.

However, while we were traversing the busy J. P. Rizal road in Marikina, it came to me that if I were to write another blog about this dinner, my blog site would already look like the official website of Cafe Lidia and it shouldn't be.  So I decided to bring her to Krung Thai, a simple little Thai (what else could it ever be?) restaurant nested in the cleanest wet and dry market in Marikina, and probably the entire country.

 

We were the only customers when we got in.  We were given the menu but I already had something in mind.  I ordered two plates of Binagoongan Rice but the waitress immediately told us that they ran out of bagoong already because there were way too many customers earlier that day and they are not allowed by the market administration to cook bagoong at night time because the tenants upstairs complain of the odor it leaves on their stuff.  Apparently, since the market is closed at night, the smoke coming from their kitchen gets confined in the second floor, leaving the pungent odor.  So after careful deliberation, we settled for...

Thai Chicken with rice in coconut milk

Tempura (I know it's not Thai!)

Pad Thai

Unfortunately, they already also ran out of Thai tea because the owner wasn't able to make his regular trip to Thailand to buy the ingredients for the tea (yeah, right!) so we had to settle for Sprite and bottled water.

However, it was still a success because HLD immediately loved the chicken at first bite.  The tempura was okay but we wanted it crispier as it already appeared kikiam-ish.  I prefer their Pad Thai over that of Som's where I and ETS usually eat when I visit her in Mandaluyong.  Krung Thai's Pad Thai is dry but sticky, Som's is saucy bordering on masabaw.

It was a great dinner with a lot of laughter at the expense of other people lol!

Eventually went to the viewing and munched on these...

The softest and most immaculate-looking orange-flavored puto I have ever tried.

This one I didn't try, you know, meat, dead and whatever.  It's just me, never eating meat at viewings.

Now, that's LIFE!