Pizza Hut Group Meal Feast

Pizza Hut Group Meal Feast

Russel, our LabTech, a fresh Med Tech graduate
recently passed the licensure examination and

became a Registered Medical Technologist (RMT),



...so we gathered all our employees after work and

headed to Pizza Hut SM City Naga to celebrate.

Pizza Hut offers delicious affordable group meal delas and we chose 
the one good for 12 persons that came with 12 bowls of soup of your 
choice, either Creamy Mushroom or Cream of Chicken Soup.

 

It also came with a salad for 12 persons, but they apparently

ran out of lettuce so we were given French fries instead,

 

…12 pieces of Fried Chicken,

 

…three huge bowls of Italian Pasta of your

choice also enough to feed twelve persons,

 

 

 

…and of course, two family sized pizza

and we chose Hawaiian Supreme,

 

…and Italian Delight.

 

I spotted Seafood Pizza, a new item in

the menu and I was tempted to order one,

 

…and tasted so good especially

the mozzarella stuffed crust variety.

 

Some opted to order additional rice,

…but with or without rice, Pizza Hut’s group

meal deal  is deliciously filling and very affordable.

 

Back to Russel, our new RMT, he actually replaced James, 
a labtech  who worked for us for more than ten years, but
 left  to enroll in a medical school to become a doctor.

 

Russel intends to doing the same- pursue a medical

course this May. We look forward of seeing not just

with RMT title attached to his name, but MD as well.

Read on the links below for related posts:

Pizza Hut’s New Dishes: Extra Goodness, More Choices 
Pizza Hut’s Halo Halo; Overflowing Saccharine Goodness

Pizza Hut’s Cheeseburger Pizza
 Pizza Hut’s Christmas Menu: Pizza Hut Naga Christmas Series 1  
 Pizza Hut’s Holiday Cheesy Bites: Pizza Hut Naga Christmas Series 2 

Pizza Hut’s Ultimate Hershey’s’ Chocolate Chip Cookie: Pizza Hut Naga Christmas Series 3  

Pizza Hut, SM City Naga 
Pasta Perfection at Pizza Hut, SM City Naga
Pizza Hut’s Cheesy 7 Pizza 

Alvi’s Restaurant; Albay’s Restaurant of History

Alvi’s Restaurant 
Albay’s Restaurant of History

After renewing my daughter’ s passport in Legazpi,
we initially intended to dine at Balay Cena Una, but
we found the way there too complicated, so we decided
to dine at Alvi’s, a restaurant with similar concept. 



Alvi’s is located in a century- old house, formerly
owned by the Imperial family, a prominent political
clan in Legazpi and has been turned into a restaurant.

 

 

The menu described Alvi’s as ‘centuries old today,
restaurant of history’, but did not point out any
noteworthy historical event that the house played
that may have shaped the progressive Albay of today.

 

There is a massive wooden staircase

 

…that leads to a huge function room at the second floor.

 

The main dining area for drop- in
diners was located in the first floor,

 

…and was decorated with ‘bahay na bato’ theme,

 

…or the Fil- Hispano style that was
popular during the turn of the century.

 

We were ushered to a bare dining area, also located
at the first floor, as it was apparently a brownout and
their generator was designed to power this smaller room.
The staff was otherwise courteous and apologetic.

 

I don’t know if it’s just a coincidence, but the last time we
visited Legazpi, it was also a brown out when we dined 
at Choobi Choobi,   We were with my 82 year old mother-
in- law, and had a problem going up the restaurant located
at the 4^th floor Ayala Malls. The mall generator did not have
enough power to keep elevators and escalators working.

 
 Link to Choobi- Choobi blogpost

Anyway, back again to Alvi’s Restaurant,
we  were initially served a complimentary
platter of peanuts while waiting for our food. 

 

Sinigang na Baboy was our soup starter. It was a delicious
prelude to our late afternoon lunch. The pork was lean
and tender as they used ribs instead of the fatty belly.
The vegetables were crunchy fresh and not wilted.
We also loved the broth as it had the right sourness,
not enough to disfigure your face in acerbic disgust.

 

The Sizzling Spicy Baluko was a revelation. The meat
of this Sorsogon native- seashell was simmered in coconut
milk, spiced with ‘siling labuyo’ and served sizzling in a hot
plate. The tasty ‘baluko’ meat was chewy but surprisingly
easy to bite. An original product of Bicolano ingenuity, this
is a must try and a must order dish to anyone dining in Alvi’s. 



Alvi’s Fish Steak in Lemon Butter Sauce was okay.
A generous slab of yellow- fin tuna was sautéed and
bathed with soy based steak sauce and topped with
abundant white onion rings. The young corn added
a slightly unpleasant fusty aftertaste and the fish steak
would be better off without it. Just like any other typical
Pinoy style ‘bistek’, it was salty. Nothing to rave about.

 

The Seafood Chopsuey was rave- worthy and crave-
worthy as well. There was an abundant variety of
seafood stir- fried with fresh and crunchy vegetables
and seasoned with oyster sauce. It was so good that
we had to order another one to  take home to Naga. 



Alvi’s is a haven for divine desserts.
The Mango Float was sinfully delicious
that we ended ordering another one.

 

My young son gobbled his Brownies like there was
no tomorrow. It was delicious and sinfully addicting.

 

The Alvi’s Halo- Halo is to die for. Unlike other more popular  halo- halo 
versions with creamy milky- ice that tastes like disgusting over- stuffed 
milkshakes and smoothies, The ice used was coarse and refreshingly 
crunchy the way a halo- halo should be. It also had just the right amount 
of sugary ingredients making it ideally sweet and not sickeningly sweet.

 

 It was topped by creamy vanilla not by a repulsive ube ice cream  
that overwhelms  everything. This is the perfect kind of  halo- halo
 that I have been  looking for all my life-  and finally found it in Alvi’s. 

 

The burgeoning restaurants in Legazpi City,

 

... gives us a reason to return more often for unparalleled
culinary excursions in the city of fun and adventure.

Chili Peppers’ Family Favorites: Naga- Born World Class Cuisine

Chili Peppers’ Family Favorites 
Naga- Born World Class Cuisine 

Chili Peppers started it all in Magsaysay.

The glittering Magsaysay Strip became what it

is now when this awesome restaurant, all by its

lonesome opened in this once desolate grassland.

Naguenos came in droves to sample what was city’s

pioneering Hispano- Mexican cuisine had to offer,

and restaurants  later started  sprouting one by one,

to cater Chili Pepper’s overflowing costumers.

We retuned once on to one of the best restaurants in Naga City

and thoroughly enjoyed Butter Garlic Shrimps for appetizer.

It was very tasty and guaranteed to prime your taste buds for

the hearty meal ahead. Made of generous amount of plump

white shrimps, sliced button mushrooms, sautéed with tangy

lemon garlic butter and topped with white wine reduction.

We ordered some of our all- time favorite dishes

that makes us coming back to Chili Peppers like

the luxuriously yummy Cream of Pumpkin Soup.

Pinangat with Tilapia Fillet is another all- time favorite,

that we never fail to order here. A fusion of two iconic

Bicolano dishes; the CamSur version of pinangat where

there is a generous filling made of chopped crablets and

ground young coconut meat between layers of velvety

smooth taro leaves, simmered in creamy coconut milk.

Topped with a perfectly seared tilapia fillet, with nori strips,

bathed in creamy coconut milk and sprinkled with sesame

seeds. They make an awesome crave - worthy combination.

 

The Baby Come Back lives up to its name as it kept us coming

back. This tender and tasty ribs probably made this restaurant

very popular, that made droves of Naguenos troop to Magsaysay,

and it didn’t matter how secluded and out-of-the-way it was then.

Another all time family favorite is the Sweet Chop of Mine.

Two huge slabs of perfectly grilled 300 grams prime pork

chops, glazed with sweetish teriyaki sauce, lying in a bed of

Java rice and with a mound of pickled papaya as a side dish.

 

I’m saving the best for last in this review and the

Jambalaya Pealla deserves the honor for this one.

It is one of the paella variety listed on the menu and we have
already tried the Paella Mariscos and Paella Valenciana which
we extremely enjoyed in the past and I featured it on this LINK..

 

I was intrigued about this iconic New Orleans' dish as it was fused with 
another iconic dish from Spain and the result was mind blowing.The merry 
mix of seafood, spiced with onions, red and green peppers, interspersed 
with generous slices of Hungarian sausage, egg wedges, in the Jambalaya's
 time tested  tradition of putting everything edible, anything available but 
cooked the paella way. This dish is a delicious culinary masterpiece.

 

Also not to be missed are the

refreshing shakes and drinks.

 

I am a loyal fan of this wonderful restaurant that offers

world- class cuisine and traces its roots in this city. It had  

expanded in Metro Manila and it holds the distinction of

starting everything on once forlorn place that had grown

into the glittering and glitzy Magsaysay Strip of today.

Read the links below for related posts: 

Chili Peppers: Huge Servings for Huge Appetites

Chili Peppers Avenue Square: Big in Servings, Big in Taste

Chilli Peppers' Comes Home to the Avenue Square 

Chili Peppers Iced Lychee: Most Delicous Halo Halo in Bicol 

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