i have
passed by lane p (in BGC) many times before and have since noticed a new eating hunt in
bonifacio high street. it is called sunnies café, which was already there for
quite some time now. but never had i any chance to sample this one, until my
sister and yuri didn’t know where to go during that one weekday in august.
the prices
are on the heftier side, especially for comfort food. but no te preocupes… if
the food is great, i don’t mind paying a little bit more than usual. the
ambience was totally cool, the modern feel was good and the tables were
good-spaced, not too crowded. and of course, we all just wanted to have our
bellies filled, we were super hungry! everything went well. sunnies café have
attentive staff and crew. i ordered for stovetop pork chops. this one comes
with scallion brown rice, french beans, marble potatoes and the meat was
described as 2-day brined chop.
and then the
food was served. my sister got honey garlic crispy chicken and it looked good
(also tasted well according to her). my stovetop pork chops also looked nice,
although a little bit bland in terms of the color. but once again, no te preocupes,
the chops should be good. but no!! it was one of those “tough moments" when the
meat fights back and does not have any plans of cooperating with your knife and
fork. it was leathery and hard… nothing of the nice gravy could have done
wonders with it. since the meat was stringy, even the nice side dishes and brown
rice could not save the meal. the pork chop was super hard!!!
the manager
asked how the food was and i didn’t mince (i could not mince the meat after
all!) any words… “it was pure tough meat”, i said to her! she offered to have
it changed. but when the new stovetop pork chop was served, it was all the
same! the meat was still hard, stringy, leathery and chewy. i guess it’s how
they prepared it.
defeated and
actually feeling bad and cheated about spending PHP 370 on a leathery pork
chop, off we went and i said that never will i step in sunnies café again. i
tweeted about it and tagged sunnies café but didn’t get any reply. i guess they’re
still making money to even lift a finger on one customer who had a whole lot of
“hard” time with their hard pork chop.
lesson learned… when the
meat goes tough, we should be tougher on the establishments! 😊 we all deserve only the best, right?!
