Apag Marangle
I haven't seen it before so I figured I'll watch Bruce Willis in Live Free or Die Hard, the 2007 movie and fourth in the Die Hard franchise. It's actually an excellent movie with pretty cool special effects. Babel was on last night on cable but since I have the DVD, I figured I can just watch it here in my home theater. I picked out some of my favorite scenes because I just watched it recently, can't remember if it was in California or Japan. I never get tired of watching this movie.
And since the King of Pop just passed away recently, I just had to watch his Greatest Hits Video History. I'm surprised to see Wesley Snipes on Bad and Eddie Murphy and Magic Johnson on a John Singleton directed Egyptian fantasy music video Remember the Time.
Yesterday, I got a text message from friend Alan saying he and his wife Neneng will treat us for lunch if we're available. So of course I said, "Sure!" They picked us up before noon and they took us to this restaurant in Bacolor called Apag Marangle located on the Olongapo-Gapan Highway. We've seen this restaurant before on our way to and from Guagua but we haven't bothered pulling over to actually eat there. They said they had lunch here before on their way home from Subic.
When we went to Laguna, March of last year, Manny and Chi, friends of Pareng Vir took us to a restaurant in Los Banos called Kamayan sa Palaisdaan. Apag Marangle and Kamayan have the same theme but the bahay kubos of the latter are actually on rafts floating on the ponds.
Apag Marangle's menu consist of mostly typical Capampangan dishes. I ordered some crispy mole crickets (kamaru) and they're actually pretty good, much better than the usual dish it's served. Can you say EXOTIC?
I also ordered pinakbet and Neneng and Alan ordered pork and chicken asado as well as some liyampo which is basically fried pork belly.
Before we finished lunch, the owner dropped by our kubo and asked us how it was and we told her it's actually pretty good. After such favorable comment, we were immediately given discount cards - just business cards really, with the owner's initials. The only problem was the heat and the humidity. They created artificial rain on the roof of the kubos but that helped very little.
Alan and Neneng went on vacation in the US recently and they told us all about their trip and we told them of our trip and somehow the weather was forgotten with such good company. Alan couldn't stop talking about the hospitable and extremely warm reception they experienced courtesy of our fellow JASHSians on the East Coast (Ras, Gene, Angel, Arthur and Lito) and California (my LA group led by Ed Sale).
Incidentally, our house guests, Cong Paing and Atching Let gathered their stuff and moved out yesterday to go to her sister's place in Dolores. They went ahead and re-bought the property they used to own from her sister in the UK and I think they started cleaning the place out before fully renovating it.
Next week, Donna's cousin Boy Dizon and his wife Remy along with daughter MaryJo are going to be here on vacation as well.
And since the King of Pop just passed away recently, I just had to watch his Greatest Hits Video History. I'm surprised to see Wesley Snipes on Bad and Eddie Murphy and Magic Johnson on a John Singleton directed Egyptian fantasy music video Remember the Time.
Yesterday, I got a text message from friend Alan saying he and his wife Neneng will treat us for lunch if we're available. So of course I said, "Sure!" They picked us up before noon and they took us to this restaurant in Bacolor called Apag Marangle located on the Olongapo-Gapan Highway. We've seen this restaurant before on our way to and from Guagua but we haven't bothered pulling over to actually eat there. They said they had lunch here before on their way home from Subic.
When we went to Laguna, March of last year, Manny and Chi, friends of Pareng Vir took us to a restaurant in Los Banos called Kamayan sa Palaisdaan. Apag Marangle and Kamayan have the same theme but the bahay kubos of the latter are actually on rafts floating on the ponds.
Apag Marangle's menu consist of mostly typical Capampangan dishes. I ordered some crispy mole crickets (kamaru) and they're actually pretty good, much better than the usual dish it's served. Can you say EXOTIC?
I also ordered pinakbet and Neneng and Alan ordered pork and chicken asado as well as some liyampo which is basically fried pork belly.
Before we finished lunch, the owner dropped by our kubo and asked us how it was and we told her it's actually pretty good. After such favorable comment, we were immediately given discount cards - just business cards really, with the owner's initials. The only problem was the heat and the humidity. They created artificial rain on the roof of the kubos but that helped very little.
Alan and Neneng went on vacation in the US recently and they told us all about their trip and we told them of our trip and somehow the weather was forgotten with such good company. Alan couldn't stop talking about the hospitable and extremely warm reception they experienced courtesy of our fellow JASHSians on the East Coast (Ras, Gene, Angel, Arthur and Lito) and California (my LA group led by Ed Sale).
Incidentally, our house guests, Cong Paing and Atching Let gathered their stuff and moved out yesterday to go to her sister's place in Dolores. They went ahead and re-bought the property they used to own from her sister in the UK and I think they started cleaning the place out before fully renovating it.
Next week, Donna's cousin Boy Dizon and his wife Remy along with daughter MaryJo are going to be here on vacation as well.
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