My friend Joe introduced me to this little gem of a restaurant. Akasya Grill. Tucked away near the former La Botica in bangga La Salle, this restaurant is a perfect place to take a visitor to bacolod! They have a buffet and eat-all-you-can chicken inasal for only 150 pesos or roughly 3 dollars! WOW!!
Joe and I headed there at 6pm. The place was packed full of hungry customers! Whoa! I thought that we would be early and have the whole place to ourselves.
The restaurant had a variety of Filipino dishes on the buffet table. Nothing fancy but what they had was really good!
(Click on the name of the food to find a wikipedia article about it!)
Kamote fries or sweet potato fries.
Sweet finger-sized bananas. I think some people call them monkey bananas or something like that. On the upper right are some green chillies.
Crunchy Chicharon. Fried pork rind.
Fried eggplant (left) with bagoong shrimp paste and fried chicken (right). Eggplant is so good with bagoong! I kept coming back for more!
Egg soup with chunks of chicken in it. Nothing fancy.
Beef Caldereta. Caldereta is a spicy stew with tomato sauce and veggies. It is usually made with goat meat.
Sotanghon guisado. Fried Vermicelli noodles with veggies. This was the only dish that nobody was eating!
After making the rounds of the buffet table and sampling all the food (except for the sotanghon.) Our order of chicken inasal arrived! I had Pecho (breast)while joe had pakpak (wings) and isol (chicken butt.) Yum yum yum. We began to dig in!
The food was so good that we began eating with our hands! This is perfectly acceptable behavior in a chicken inasal restaurant. Of course we washed our hands first.
We hit the buffet table again and after that we ordered a second round of chicken inasal. This time Joe had paa (leg) while I had the isol (butt).
Guess how many chicken inasal I ate? Well… I only had two. But that was because I had so much of the buffet. Joe told me he could polish off four and he knew a friend who could eat six or seven.
Urrgh. I’m stuffed.
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Bacolod Tidbit #1.)
The Mirasol family owns a mansion on LaSalle Avenue which looks like the White House. This mansion was built during the peak of the sugar industry boom.
Sadly now it is in need of serious renovation and the front lawn is used as a parking lot for broken down sugar cane trucks. You can see where the oil has seeped into the ground.
Bacolod tidbit #2.
I went to check out the newly finished 888 chinatown square near the Bacolod city jail. It looks impressive!
It even had stone lions outside!
But once you get inside the whole place is HORRIBLE!! It sucks! It’s like a typical ukay-ukay mall. Nothing good inside except maybe for pirated DVDS
^o^ PUPUNTA KO DYAN!!!! hugas muna ko kamay…. TAXI!!!
teka.. from cubao pano punta dun?
arrrrgh! you mean its in bacolod! :< waaaahhhh! you prople have all the luck!
you have become bacolod’s number one endorser. LOL! until when ka di?
@ifoundme asta ako di may10.. wait lang may pakita ko sa imo na blog namon 3 friends. This is our current project
bacolodfoodhunters.wordpress.com
sige. i’m going to check it now.
Only 3dollars?? Wow. There is no where to eat that well for dollars anywhere in the USA. What a bargain!
How is the weather in Bacolod at this time of year?
*drools*
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sarap naman nyannnnnn~
Wow eat all you can mayu ba testingan ko gid na when I get there
Eow I ate here once and there RICE tasted like a cockroach. (not like i really ate a cockroach before duhh!) BUt I know there smell because cockroach FREAK ME OUT so much! Thats why i know when a cockroach is near! Anyway back to the rice it really tasted like it. I never ATE HERE again. No offense with the Resto but my experience was so bad you can’t blame me guys. I’m just telling the truth.
you know what? yr sooo maarte,…. if you cant say anything good better yet keep you mouth shut.