Rarely Ordered | Adventurous dining or insanity? You decide.

Last year, when KFC released the Double Down in the Philippines, I had the idea of combining it with Mc Donald’s Double Cheeseburger(sans the buns). And the DOUBLE DOUBLE was born. Mostly because they have the word ‘double’ in their names. That, and cholesterrific food are the best kind of food. True story.

So imagine my delight when KFC relaunched the Double Down a few weeks back. The Double Double lives again! This time, with a third ‘double’. I decided to Lutherize it by adding two Krispy Kreme doughnuts as buns. Congratulations, your DOUBLE DOUBLE has evolved into the TRIPLE DOUBLE!

Damn, son! Just look at that!  I placed it in the microwave for around two minutes to melt the cheese. When it came out, the bottom doughnut collapsed under the weight of all that meat after absorbing so much of the Triple Double’s death-juice. Read More…

We interrupt your regularly scheduled SITE INACTIVITY for a..*gasp* BLOG ENTRY!

I got a call from the bestfriend a few of weeks ago. He and his girlfriend were on their way home home from their long-weekend trip at Lian, Batangas. He yelled “SEA URCHINS” for a good 30 seconds before asking me to meet them at his place for a midnight snack. He had acquired half a cooler of sea urchins that were STILL ALIVE and wanted me to document the process of gutting and eating it. How could I say no to that? Read More…

What I expected:

What I got:

I’m not saying that I’m pissed off at the false advertising here, but lets face it, wouldn’t you want to have that MVP quad stack near your heart?

I like that the thing is quite big, the meat was plentiful and burgerrific. It’s a bit too burgerrific. Not enough bacon and pickles to balance out the flavor. I consumed like 10 packets of ketchup before I could even finish it! For the price of P 265.00, the four patty one is worth a try. The three patty I would order if I’m hungry, two patty would be good for an in-between, the single patty for a snack.

Giving it a 4/5, worth trying but gonna not buy again soon.

Photo by RJ. Click here for some of his works.

You can be sure that if a food place starts with the word "WANG" there has to be something interesting about it.

One of the best places our family went to during our winter trip to Beijing is the Wang Fujing night market.

The highlight of the place was all the street food! Most notably, these exotic food items which are a little bit pricey but quite worth it for the experience. They had a wide range of food items such as scorpions, tarantulas, moths, centipedes, snake meat, chrysali, and a lot more.

Case in point:

I never knew starfish were even edible.

I would have eaten this but I used to keep one as a pet.

And this too I kept as a pet. As for the centipede, I just didn't eat it because it was plain expensive.

Now THIS is what I ate. The poor caterpillar never got out of the cocoon... and those that did still got their wings removed and served right here.

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Don’t you just have those times where you just want to buy food from two different restaurants? But you then find it awkward to bring food from another joint? Well we apparently lack the embarrassment organs so we were able to even do this:

Mcdo Barbeque sauce!~

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Dericious dericious Mojos

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With the power of Mcdo and Shakey’s combined!

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Ren here, after the ashes cleared for the end of the Christmas season. My friends decided to conspire against me and go on diets! So what does a good friend do? I conspired too, to kill, desecrate and humiliate their diets!

me with willing victim no. 1: Joanne: who bought a box of cupcakes at Serendra.

pointing to:

The not so willing victim no. 2 RJ

To kill his diet we decided to dine at Zong at the fort. To make things worse, we made RJ chose what dishes we would eat and destroy his diet with. It will now be his job to describe each delicious dish, to add to his torture.

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Still under the dilemma of where to for lunch and deciding to leave it to a coin toss Napoli’s is where we ended up.

Its a small italian restaurant located in Thomas Morato Scout rotonda. It has a white, green, red banner hard to miss.

Hungarian Sausage Spaghetti

My phone decided to be a bitch today and let the picture of the other dish get corrupted so I can’t post it. Other than having three sausages in the plate, a fact pointed out by my cousin.  Its pretty good not sweet, kinda sour which hits the spot. The size of the serving is enough for the both of us as we were both *ahem* large.

As for the sucky pictures you gotta take them as I don’t want to carry such a huge expensive camera to take good shots. I’m no Jedi hence I can’t use the force to take good pictures with an UBERLY expensive camera.

More notably they can’t fit in my pants.

Other than our usual activities of humiliating ourselves in David’s kitchen, we decided to humiliate ourselves further by coining this idea of making crazy burgers. I think the next time we try this again we shall be disowned and or be hanged in their yard.

Chocolate Burger

I know what you’re thinking right, what came to our minds to actually come up with this crap. Well this is just one of my brilliant ideas.

As expected it tastes what exactly the ingredients are burger and chocolate (We were aiming to have a chocolate center which I guess caused this). Read More…

With everyone being acquainted to chinese restaurants, some of you or perhaps all of you have tried this dish or perhaps even heard of it. But to me this dish perhaps holds a special place in my heart. For this dish I attach a huge amount of memories into it, so it was really nice when a few weeks ago a friend of mine went to a place where my memories are most vivid. Located in the corner of E. Rodriguez and Thomas Morato is the restaurant called “Big Bowl” now they have a honiker to the name by adding plus.
“To live would be to eat” I sincerely believe in this quote as most of the things that we would end up doing will be eating for the most of our lives. One of the things that both me and my late father shared is that we simply just adore this dish. So as it was a real treat when me and my friend went there out of my whims to have a little taste of memories past. Me and him would always order for this dish with my family, even though it would probably end up me and him eating most of it. Even if the dish was totally different or the place has changed my memories are still there, which I am most grateful.

And to my friend, Mr. Fiel John Meria, who joined me I know its kinda late but thank you.

You know what they say about ideally marrying a Kapampangan woman – for they can really cook for you! While we are not so sure if that will be healthy for our weight, a once in a while visit to Everybody’s Cafe in McArthur highway, Pampanga is very fulfilling for the Kapampangan food lover and the adventurous foodie as well. Here we have the three guys of Rarely Ordered – finally back to food reviewing after a long hiatus of not being able to update, and for that we are monumentally aplogetic. We plan to update the skin, plugins etc etc before an actual post, but hell we love what we do and we love food so here goes!

Betute (Fried Frog stuffed with Ground Pork)

Fiel: Yes you heard that right! It is indeed frog with pork inside. I must say, the sour mix of the ingredients used in the ground pork complemented the frog meat very well. For people who like a sour treat and are willing to enjoy frog, as it really is tasty this deserves a solid 7.5/10.

Ren: The most evident element in this dish would be the deep-fried frog but the inside is stuffed with juicy ground pork. The frog is fried to be crispy in texture, with in contrast to the pork which was still inside having a juicy taste as the juices were kept inside by the frog. With the excellent contrasts of the two textures I give it 8.5/10.

RJ: Frogs! This is just awesome! The ground pork was good and didn’t overpower the frog meat. The frog itself is effing delicious, the texture is similar to chicken meat and the crispyness and flavor is just so awesome! Highly recommended! 8.5/10

Lengua Asado (Pork Tongue in Tomato sauce)

Fiel: While we eat lengua all the time in catered events, pork tongue isn’t usually served in comparison to beef tongue. Thus, this has an overall different “feel” to eating your usual lengua. While the taste was nothing special and is very close to the lengua estofado here in Manila, this is still pretty damn good as the tongue was softened perfectly and the sauce was lightly sour and very appetizing. 7.5/10.

Ren: The meat is made out of pork tongue with a tomato sauce as its stock. The stew is very delectable as the meat is very tender all through out. And the sauce is just makes it a right combination overall. A very homey dish, making it a 7/10 for me.

RJ: This dish really surprised me! I’m used to eating beef and ox tongues and I generally prefer beef overpork; but I’ve learned the pork tongue is just as good. The tongue is a bit harder, but it makes up in flavor and texture. It blended really well with the sauce. 8.5/10

Sisig Kapampangan

Fiel: This is truly different from the usual “sizzling sisig” we have in Manila. This was simply cooked and mixed with different ingredients such as vinegar and onions, but it still felt like eating your sisig with a “little sour twist to it.” The appetizing nature of pork and the sourness would probably make this even more ideal for pulutan over a lot of beer! 8/10.

Ren: It’s where the sizzling counter part came from. The texture is overall soft, and most evident perhaps is the sour taste of the ingredients along with the soy sauce just made it delectable, reminding me of other good dishes I have tried before. Making me give it a score of 7.5/10

RJ: This dish doesn’t look like your regular sisig, but the taste is very similar. The flavor is very rich with a distinct souryness you’d find in most sisig dishes. I the meat ok, but I guess I was just used to the crispy and crunchy sisig. 6.5/10

Kamaro (Sauteed Crickets)

Fiel: Now this is as exotic as we can get! Unless you are from Pampanga of course – where this is relished as a local food. The sourness, crunchiness and its meaty but tender taste is really unique but really good! I do not think this requires an acquired taste – but if you have an issue eating crickets it may affect what should overall be a good meal for you. This is my favorite and is ironically the healthiest item I have eaten here hahaha! – 9/10.

Ren: As some may or may not notice the dish is made out of crickets, with some of the parts taken out of, namely the wings and legs. Then they are sauted with onions and other spices. When you take a bit into it you can’t help but notice the crunchy texture of the crickets. And what hits you next is actually the sourness of themeat itself. An excellent combination with the crunchyness and spices. I give it a 8.5/10

RJ: At first I was like “Woah, I’m eating crickets! ”, but then I was like “Woah, I’m eating crickets! ಠ_ಠ “ And then I actually tasted it, and it was all good. The unique crunchyness and “buggy-ness” of it is something I’ve never experienced before. This dish is the reason why we went all the way to Pampanga just to eat lunch! And it was worth it! 8/10.

When we went: Saturday, November 15, 2008
Where it is: Mc Arthur Highway, Pampanga
Budget range: A bit less than P200 per person if you are a normal eater – but we each spent for than P300 here with a few more other orders.