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Filipino food has a special place in my heart because it doesn’t just feed you. It helps you travel back in time.
Simpler, more innocent times.
One bite and suddenly you’re back at fiestas, birthdays, family tables where somebody is yelling that the rice is getting cold.
It’s familiar, home-cooked comfort, but when it’s done right, it feels elevated.
Better plating, generous portions, oh man… everything tastingso good.
That’s exactly how our late lunch felt at Molave Dela Casa, now teamed up with Bluedon Cafe at Talomo-Pusan Bypass Road, just behind Jollibee Ulas.
We were heading to Calinan when we decided to grab a quick bite since it was already 12 noon.
We had the Bulalo, served in a real clay palayok, which gave it that proper Filipino touch. And the best part about that Bulalo was that it had actual bone marrow inside the bones. Almost all of the hollowed out bones had bone marrow in it.
Something that not a lot of restaurants have in the bulalo they serve.
Genuinely one of the best Bulalo’s we’ve had in a while.
Lyle loved the chopsuey and ate all of the broccoli, plus the corn from the Bulalo, which made me so proud of him.
If you’re just planning on having a light lunch, do not and I mean do not order the rice platter. That platter comes with seven bowls of rice. Big bowls.
The space deserves its own mention.
Cozy, filled with antique furniture, with old-fashioned irons, and phones, and books, and jars on the shelves that make you feel like you’ve stepped into an ancestral house in the province… except the food comes out faster and nobody asks why you’re still single or when you’re having another baby.
Lyle got curious about an old, non-functioning TV set tucked among the antiques, and I found myself explaining what all the buttons used to do.
There’s bonsai there too, which I’ve already told my wife I want to take up someday as part of my gardening hobby… as a er… hobby, and hopefully eventually a paying one.
The coffee from Bluedon rounded everything off nicely.
Good food, good coffee, good company, and a space that somehow makes a family lunch feel like a quick step back into our yesteryears.
We’ll definitely be back at the Molave dela Casa to work through the rest of the menu.
I wanna try the crispy pata, native tinolang manok, and pork binagoongan.
and the burgers.
