Foodtrip in Lucban

If you search for information regarding Lucban, Quezon, the first few information that you will get will be about the Pahiyas festival that usually happens in May. This festival is a harvest festival wherein all houses are dressed up with the family's farm harvest.

In my recent trip to Lucban last month, I realized that Lucban is not just famous for the harvest but also for the delicious food that they serve.

Amongst the variety that we enjoyed in our three-day weekend were Sinugno; Ginataang Kuhol na may pako; Sizzling chicken; empanadita and Lucban's famous halo-halo of Salud.

Sinugno is Inahaw na tilapia with gata. Rather easy to prepare at home but so tasty to feast on. Try making it a bit more spicy and you would enjoy it more.

Ginataang kuhol was surprisingly sweet and fun. You get to slurrp the kuhol out of the shell. Quite fun if you ask me.

Sizzling chicken could have been the usual meal you order in sizzling plate, but what made it diffrent in Palaisdaan is the sauce. It tastes quite special.

Empanadita and Salud's Halo-Halo were not part of our Palaisdaan dinner. The halo-halo came after dinner and we had to drive back to bayan to get a taste of it.

Salud's was few blocks from Lucban church and it was rather an old house. They serve halo-halo and mais con hielo and costs about 35 pesos only.

The halo halo does not boast of a special kind of ice like Razon's or the commercial fantasy that Chowking's and Sandosenang Halo offers, but it was probably one of the best that I have tasted since my very first halo halo experience in Tondo. Just look at the mouth watering colors of the blend and the sweetness that is blended perfectly to ask for another round. I wish that they have Salud's in Manila so that I can enjoy it anytime I want.

Lastly, the empanadita came quite a surprise. There was this modest food court outside Lucban church were you could enjoy most kind of street food from bananaque to isaw to hotdogs. Empanadita looked cute for its 2.50/pc and I just had to try it. What was interesting was that it did not have meet or chicken inside like the usuals you get from goldilocks...rather it had sweet kamote inside. Delicious and cheap and rather light for the stomach. The gang bought 250 pieces of it and became the pasalubong.