Thieving restaurants!
There’s a new restaurant at Manggahan corner Commonwealth. It’s called “Raffy’s”. I was grateful for its new building because it cleared that area of the chaotic tiangge that raised my blood pressure every time I drove by because pedestrians were forced to take the road itself and not the sidewalk.
Anyway, last Saturday night, Pom texted me to buy cooked food as she had no time to cook. I thought it would be a good time to drop by Raffy’s for the first time.
Right off, I saw their menu is a bit high priced. Parang presyong Horseshoe Drive, hindi pang-Manggahan. But I shrugged and thought that probably they have big servings and their foods are tasty. So I ordered one bulalo, one pinakbet and four cups of rice to go.
I don’t know with you guys but I feel insulted whenever I see serbidoras painstakingly counting every meat slice and limp vegetables they put in my plastic bags. They did it to me at Raffy’s. And when they thought that one slice is a millimeter too thick, they hurriedly put it back inside the trays and gingerly scratch around for smaller ones. Mas mabuto, mas mabuti. (I wished I have 25 centavo coins so I can mimic them when it was my turn to pay. Unti-unti, parang atubiling magbayad.)
What’s more, I even have to ask them for kalamansi and sili for my dip.
Put off at the restaurant itself, I already had cause to be critical of Raffy’s food. Man, their bulalo is tasteless! They even scrimped on beef cubes! And their pinakbet? Kapampangan, not Ilokano.
Last night, Pom and I went mall-ing and ate out. Being a Sunday after payday, there were of course hoards of people in the mall. We were then forced to look for restaurants that had less people eating. That’s when we stumbled upon “Reyes’ Barbeque.”
Forget their rice cups. Their cupful won’t feed two birds, much less a man of my appetite. And their kinilaw na tanigue? They call nine very small slices a serving? And I counted exactly 12 strands of green papaya on the achara they put on my plate!
I don’t know if I have reason to gripe like this, given the fact that the peso is virtually worthless already. But the pesos I paid them I worked very hard for.
I would be less angry if they pay their workers their just wages. But, chances are, those are contractuals with wages lower than dirt.
Fucking capitalists!
