Max’s Restaurant: Sarap to the Bones, Sarap Balik- balikan

Max’s Restaurant, SM City Naga

Sarap to the Bones, Sarap Balik- balikan

There are restaurants in the country

 worth coming back again and again,
and Max’s Restaurant is one of them.

 

I cannot count the number of times

that my family dined in this restaurant

and it never fails to satisfy our taste buds.

It is a restaurant that reminds you of home.

I remember dining in one of their branches

in National City in San Diego in the past and it

was such nice dinner break feasting on Pinoy dishes

after gorging on American fares of burgers and steaks.

We again returned to Max’s SM City Naga

after deliberating where to eat after work  on

 a Saturday night. Our bucket list on where and what

 restaurants to dine seem to have ran out. 

It was raining hard, the traffic was horrible and

we couldn’t find any parking in Magsaysay Avenue,

so when I suggested we better dine at Max’s

at SM City Naga, no one raised a howl.

Max’s SM City Naga was full packed when we arrived

and luckily it only took us few minutes to get a table.

The good thing with this restaurant is that

almost all the dishes they offer in their menu

are delicious classic Filipino fares that one

will never go wrong whatever you choose.

We started with a deliciously spiced 

sweet and tangy Gambas as appetizer

which came with a several loaves of bread.

Then came the Sinigang na Bangus Belly

Which had a perfect  blend of sourness

that your face would not end wrinkled- up

when you savor the mildly acerbic soup.

My son who is a certified pescetarian who

needs to be persuaded to eat meat,  the

Sweet and Sour Fish came as a special treat

as it is one of his favorite dishes.

And of course, a dinner at the restaurant

is never complete without the classic

“sarap to the bones” Max’s Fried Chicken …

…that could be eaten even without those horrible

tasting Banana Ketchup provided on every table

of all Max’s Restaurant all over the world.

Sometimes it makes me wonder if the restaurant

management had ever heard  of better tasting
tomato  ketchup  like Hunt’s, Del Monte and  Heinz?


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