Gerry's Grill: Hearty Pinoy Food Feast

Gerry’s Grill, SM City Naga

Hearty Pinoy Food Feast

We returned to Gerry’s Grill

on a Saturday night  for a dinner

with our employees on a weekend shift

in our SM City Naga facility.

The restaurant is one of the best sources

of grilled food in town, and we never

get tired of coming back to savor their

authentic Filipino dishes.

We had a bowl of Sinigang na Baboy,

and I believe the Gerry’s Grill version

of this popular Filipino sour soup is our

least favorite as it was just too sour for comfort ,

unpalatably acerbic and almost caustic.

Their delicious Bulanglang is worth raving for.

The veggies were fresh and crispy, and was cooked

with a sweetish bagoong and just with just

the perfect hint of saltiness and the anchovy- like

aftertaste that lingers at the back of you mouth.

We also ordered some of their grilled specialties like

the tasty and perfectly grilled Inihaw na Liempo ,

…they also serve this very delicious, very tender

 and almost fat free Chicken Kebabs which was

excellently grilled with bits and pieces  of red onions

and bell peppers that added flavor to the meat

with just to the right spice and piquancy.

We also had Inihaw na Pusit and one thing I like

with the Gerry’s Grill dish is that they grilled

the squid to a chewy but tender consistency.

Most of the grilled squids I’ve tried in other

restaurants were rather bland and rubbery.

While our employees loved the Pork Sisig,

we found the dish too greasy and too scary to eat.

Imagine eating tiny pieces of chopped fried pork fat

that you would feel the grease sticking in you palate.

The grimy and grubby texture of the bits and pieces

of pork fat feels mucky in your mouth. It’s gross.

It is nothing but gross to eat this disgusting fat laden dish.

We ordered Sizzling Mushroom Chicken.

This was the first time we tried this dish and

it was a case of love at first taste for everyone.

This boneless fried chicken, was flattened

and fried to crispy perfection bathed in delicious

mushroom sauce and served sizzling  on a hot plate.

And for my son who is a die hard fish fan,

we ordered Sizzling Bangus a’la Pobre which

he gobbled up with gusto- but still left half of the fish

untouched, good enough to be shared for everyone.

We actually ordered Adobo Pork Ribs but it was served

after we already finished our meal that we decided

to take it home and had it for lunch the next day.

It was one original fusion cuisine where the continental

Pork Ribs was marinated with the Pinoy Adobo

and oven cooked baked instead of being grilled

or sautéed the way the two original dishes are done.

 

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