Pit Senyor!
January 10, 2010
Sunburst Fried Chicken
Cebu City, Philippines
Visiting downtown Cebu with my mom to look for ukay-ukay and probable overruns I admit I was also keen to drop by Sunburst restaurant to have another taste of a childhood favorite - crispy chicken skin!
Sunburst has always been the name I associate with chicken, although Max's is also a close second. Probably because Sunburst has been with us here in the Visayas for a good long while. They also serve other parts of a chicken as a dish - example you might like to just eat just chicken wings, or have an all-chicken liver dish etc.
Since I had to have rice, I ordered also their pork chop while Mom had the vegetable curry. I looked around and noted approvingly that Sinulog was indeed in the air - not only was the statue of the Sto. Niño in the middle, but other Sinulog decorations were strung about.
All in all a good Sunday - from palate to pursestrings :-)
Ah, why are bad things in life(health), very good to eat?
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What is ukay-ukay? :-)
Chicken skin +ice cold water = perfect combo for stroke :D
ReplyDeleteIs that really your mom? kala ko younger sister mo. She looks so pretty :D
uh-huh..and the supposed good things for one's health are not always so sinfully delicious? why? its unfair!
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ukay-ukay - the word "ukay" itself in our vernacular means usually to "mix-up" like in cooking..
however, in the Visayas it can also mean like pawing through heaps of stuff - and in this case, it could be used-clothes, second hand-stuff like bags, shoes, and what have you - parang flea market
sometimes you get quite lucky, an item may hardly be used or even be unused (may tags pa)..and there are good finds which you can get for a fraction of its original price...in fact, most of my black cargo pants come from the ukay-ukay coz I can't find any from the department stores..
e di take out the ice cold water..para di ka mag-stroke! mwahaha!
ReplyDeleteof course mommy ko yan no...my mom is pretty and my dad is attractive (well, they say playboy daw sya when he was younger..) e kaya ang anak naman nila *ehem, ehem* is cute..
makes me want to go to alexIII (the nearest one to my place) and have some of those!!!!
ReplyDeletenow am the one who is "inggit"....I haven't gotten enough of the crispy chicken skin..
ReplyDeletemy mom is pretty and my dad is attractive (well, they say playboy daw sya when he was younger..)
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to you? peace!!!
Chicken skin lover din ako nung teen days
50 pesos worth of chicken skin plus 20 pesos worth of chicken joy gravy from jollibee = Dinner :D
improved version ako! mwahahaha!
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oks din..I admit gravy galing sa Jollibee before was one of my fave dippings for chicken-related goodness...
Saan 'to?
ReplyDeleteThanks for the remnants.
ReplyDeleteCarmen Guerrero Nakpil, a very acerbic and brilliant Filipino writer once said: The best things in life are either illegal, immoral or fattening.
ReplyDeletefunny that...I was channel surfing through cable tv channels earlier...and when I came across Jeopardy show...that line "the best things in life..." was quoted and supposedly the contestants were to fill in the blank for the last word...
ReplyDeletethey didn't get it :-)
secondly, the person who was quoted to have said that line wasn't Carmen Nakpil...so I guess since its a catchy line, somebody in the US etc. must have also uttered those immortal lines...
Here's a link that says it is an English proverb rather than an quote - http://www.famous-proverbs.com/20th_Century_Proverbs.htm
ReplyDeleteAnd there are more of such in that site.
hmm..can't find it in that link...and I tried searching..another set comes out..
ReplyDeleteIt's the fourth.
ReplyDeletethis is what I see when I click -
ReplyDelete20th Century English Proverbs
Dates given are generally for the first written appearance of the form of the proverb in English; the proverb may have been in spoken use, in England or orther countries, much earlier and in some cases referred to as "an old saying" prior to that time.
All's for the best in the best of all possible worlds.
-early 20th century-Voltaire
Always a bridesmaid, never a bride.
-early 20th
Any publicity is good publicity.
-early 20th - Behan
The best things in life are free.
-early 20th
Better a good cow than a cow of a good kind.
-early 20th
Sorry, I thought it would be a word-for-word instead of "the best things in life are free.."
She didn't say the best things in life are free. She said the best things in life are either illegal, immoral or fattening. How can that be an old English proverb? I read that sometime in the 60's when Carmen Guerrero Nakpil still wrote for the phuilippines Free Press occasionally.
ReplyDeleteThe sixties were the 20th century.
ReplyDeleteexactly..thats why I double-checked with Chito because I couldn't find the word-for-word statement referring to illegal, immoral or fattening...
ReplyDeleteaha...a controversial statement ...
ReplyDeletebut well, since that was BMT (before my time) and what do I know of it when I wasn't around..then I shall keep mum..hahaha!
I'm not sure who, nor when this "The best things in life are either illegal, immoral or fattening." was first written or spoken but it has been quoted very often in the press and on TV/Movies etc.
ReplyDeleteIt may be old, but then people did not bother much about what was fattening, everything else may well have been considered as both illegal and immoral. Laws have been ammended and morallity has changed considerabely during the last half century.
hmm..how about this then.."Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral or fattening. Anything not fitting into these catagories causes cancer in rats."
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Pardo's First Postulate:
Anything good in life is illegal, immoral, or fattening.
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Steinkopff's Extension to Pardo's First Postulate:
The good things in life also cause cancer in laboratory mice and are taxed beyond reality.
Very good. I read recently that Rice causes cancer.
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awww man *groans*..what next?
ReplyDeleteI was waiting for people to tell me chocolates cause blindness or something..
Chocolate is reputed to be very good for the heart, but not if eaten in excess.
ReplyDeleteI guess thats the bottom line then...everything in moderation...even water :-)
ReplyDeleteYes I guess so, though it does depend a lot upon where the water comes from. In some places it is wonderful, in others maybe life threatening, and I don't meant you could drown.
ReplyDeletethen...I do wonder if there is something we can say that too much of it is still a good thing...(and not leading to death)
ReplyDeleteJohn, there weren't any leftovers..if thats what you mean by remnants..or maybe you mean just the pics and memories :-)
ReplyDeleteThere are some, "Respect, understanding, love etc."
ReplyDeleteI was refering to the latter.
ReplyDeleteI don't think anyone's immune to this one....
ReplyDeleteAs one of my favorite comedians say:
"I intend to live forever. So far, so good."- Steven Wright.
The same guy who said, "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize". Hehehe.
*gasps*
ReplyDeleteI was just thinking of things to eat or drink!
haha!
oh..I remember this guy...- "Yesterday I parked my car in a tow-away zone...when I came back the entire area was missing." - Steven Wright
ReplyDeleteI got introduced to him by another online buddy of mine in Japan..he posted a couple of his lines and some fun eps...I agree..he is really hilarious...in some ways parang Pinoy humor pero on a diff scale...
This Guy must have said" I would kill an Idea to get a Nobel Peace Prize"
ReplyDeleteAny publicity is a good publicity thats for politicians
ReplyDeleteor for moviestars..
ReplyDeleteNope.
ReplyDeleteHe said "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize".
He's the same guy who said "I invented the cordless extension cord."
There's a play on words there somewhere, not logic. :-)
now that is my kind of guy...I also saw somewhere yung joke nya about Jewish cowboys yata...hahaha...sabi ko na nga ba...
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