Road Trip
Last Sunday, Katrina and I went to Lucena to visit her aunts and grandmother. It's quite a miracle, actually. I've never thought my folks at home would approve.
Road trip!
I left home at around 6:45AM, and arrived at PeopleSupport by 7:15AM. We then went to Petron in South Super Highway to grab breakfast at Pancake House.
There was a mini car show of sorts there (besides, it's a Sunday). Prior to getting to Petron, we saw a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII, a '97 Porsche Boxster, a couple of new school and old school Porsche 911's (there's even one that dates back to the sixties!!!). That was so much eye-candy (seven or more) for a shoulder.
When we got to Petron, we saw a Ferrari 550 Maranello, a Porsche Boxster, a Porsche 911 993 Turbo, a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo V, a Maserati, and - pakshet, this is rare - a Ferrari Testarossa. That parking space will make a 5-series BMW shrink to an everyday car.
We then went on for around 140 kilometers to get to Lucena. Roads weren't so bad, but the tricycle drivers will piss you off. You'll be forced to slow from 100 to 40 km/h when you get behind one of those. Even the buses and trucks will piss you off, too! They're mobile road hazards, blazing past 100 km/h on the passing lane, pretending to be sports cars. Hope you see the picture.
Well, by good fortune, we got to Lucena in one piece. We stayed for a while in Kat's lola's house, waited for Tita Awin, then went to the market to meet up with Tita Baby and Tita Idjit (hon... please correct me if I got the spellings wrong...). We bought pasalubong (a BIG can of broas), tagged Tita Idjit along, then drove 20 kilometers going to a restaurant called Palaisdaan in Tayabas.
If you're going to Quezon, the Palaisdaan is a must-go-to restaurant. A note, though... there are two Palaisdaans in the area; be sure to go to the old one. The dining tables are on floating bamboo on top of a pond. Asteeg! While you eat, you get the floating feeling, much like eating on a raft. Hmm... no wonder it's called Palaisdaan.
And the food? Ang sarap! They cook their tilapia fresh; by "fresh", I mean they catch it in their fish farm and cook it right away. Match it with kesong puti, and you're on a flavor trip. They've got great grilled pork chops as well, and it is there where I've tasted the best sisig ever! The sisig is a bit heavy on margarine, but the flavor just melts in your mouth - the red onions were done so that the spice blends with the rest of the dish, and all you get is sweetness from the onions - sarap! You don't need to add an egg (they didn't, and it still packs lots of flavor and texture). There were left-overs from the trip, so we had the same stuff for dinner.
We then went back to Lucena, to Kat's lola's house to take a nap in the afternoon. By 7:30PM, we had dinner. By 9:15PM, we left Lucena for Manila.
The trip back was a bit scary, but exciting. You see, most of the roads are pitch black from the lack of lighting posts; roads that demand you to have Xenon lights or high-powered fog lamps. Even stock high-beams can't light up those roads.
We got home by 11:15PM (do the math, 2 hours, 150 kilometers, average of 75 km/h). I'll tell the 2-hour return trip some other time. There's lots of exciting stuff on the return trip, and all this happened while Kat was sleeping...
Road trip!
I left home at around 6:45AM, and arrived at PeopleSupport by 7:15AM. We then went to Petron in South Super Highway to grab breakfast at Pancake House.
There was a mini car show of sorts there (besides, it's a Sunday). Prior to getting to Petron, we saw a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII, a '97 Porsche Boxster, a couple of new school and old school Porsche 911's (there's even one that dates back to the sixties!!!). That was so much eye-candy (seven or more) for a shoulder.
When we got to Petron, we saw a Ferrari 550 Maranello, a Porsche Boxster, a Porsche 911 993 Turbo, a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo V, a Maserati, and - pakshet, this is rare - a Ferrari Testarossa. That parking space will make a 5-series BMW shrink to an everyday car.
We then went on for around 140 kilometers to get to Lucena. Roads weren't so bad, but the tricycle drivers will piss you off. You'll be forced to slow from 100 to 40 km/h when you get behind one of those. Even the buses and trucks will piss you off, too! They're mobile road hazards, blazing past 100 km/h on the passing lane, pretending to be sports cars. Hope you see the picture.
Well, by good fortune, we got to Lucena in one piece. We stayed for a while in Kat's lola's house, waited for Tita Awin, then went to the market to meet up with Tita Baby and Tita Idjit (hon... please correct me if I got the spellings wrong...). We bought pasalubong (a BIG can of broas), tagged Tita Idjit along, then drove 20 kilometers going to a restaurant called Palaisdaan in Tayabas.
If you're going to Quezon, the Palaisdaan is a must-go-to restaurant. A note, though... there are two Palaisdaans in the area; be sure to go to the old one. The dining tables are on floating bamboo on top of a pond. Asteeg! While you eat, you get the floating feeling, much like eating on a raft. Hmm... no wonder it's called Palaisdaan.
And the food? Ang sarap! They cook their tilapia fresh; by "fresh", I mean they catch it in their fish farm and cook it right away. Match it with kesong puti, and you're on a flavor trip. They've got great grilled pork chops as well, and it is there where I've tasted the best sisig ever! The sisig is a bit heavy on margarine, but the flavor just melts in your mouth - the red onions were done so that the spice blends with the rest of the dish, and all you get is sweetness from the onions - sarap! You don't need to add an egg (they didn't, and it still packs lots of flavor and texture). There were left-overs from the trip, so we had the same stuff for dinner.
We then went back to Lucena, to Kat's lola's house to take a nap in the afternoon. By 7:30PM, we had dinner. By 9:15PM, we left Lucena for Manila.
The trip back was a bit scary, but exciting. You see, most of the roads are pitch black from the lack of lighting posts; roads that demand you to have Xenon lights or high-powered fog lamps. Even stock high-beams can't light up those roads.
We got home by 11:15PM (do the math, 2 hours, 150 kilometers, average of 75 km/h). I'll tell the 2-hour return trip some other time. There's lots of exciting stuff on the return trip, and all this happened while Kat was sleeping...
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