This might not apply in other countries but in the Philippines when the pandemic broke out, I noticed that certain food took the limelight for a certain period of time. You can say these food/beverages trended and a number of people tried making them at home at all costs and took to social media their experiments at home. Who would forget ube cheese pandesal, dalgona coffee, sushi bake, cinnamon roll, and the list continues. I made all those I've mentioned except sushi bake and ube cheese pandesal. 🤣
I don't know if this hype marketing is the new thing but one thing's been true, businessmen are taking advantage of it, and damn, they're so good at whatever they're doing. There’s been a few trending stuff in Cebu lately, Don Macchiato’s and the other less than $1 coffee sold on pop-up stores/stalls near schools, inside malls and in the downtown area of Cebu City for example. I think most of the people in our office have ordered it. I'm not a fan of coffee and I don't think real coffee fanatics are even happy with these pop-up stores. I heard my boyfriend one time saying "They're just sugar!" But yeah those who couldn't afford the artisan coffee at bigger and established coffee shops such as Bo's and Starbucks couldn't stop talking about this.
Now that we're talking about hype and food, there's this one relatively newly-opened chain of restaurants that have taken the town by surprise. We've passed by a few of their other branches in Mandaue but when a branch nearer my boyfriend's house opened, we were curious why people flock and even wait just to eat here.
There's Cebu's all-time favorite Silogan ni Gian but this new kid's called Silogan sa Opao. Opao means bald but it's also a place in Mandaue City. Anyway, we're won't talk about history in a food blog! HAHA! We went here on a Sunday night right after Church. It's a few meters away from the church we're attending; the perfect place for families coming out of the mass to share a sumptuous meal together.
When we got here, we rightfully ordered their silog meals that are all less than $2. If you want a supreme version of their silog, you can at a higher price. I was surprised to see non-silog meals on their menu. Silog is a kind of dish in the Philippines; it's actually an acronym: si for sinangag (fried rice) and log for itlog (sunny side up egg). Whenever you see this on a menu in the Philippines, you can expect a bowl of fried rice and a sunny side up together with other food that goes with it such as tocino, grilled pork, tapa, If you haven't dined in here and you're from Cebu City, check them out. They're worth the money you'll pay. 👌🏻