Jan 24 2009
Subway-Makati City, Manila
Recently Chris has been craving Subway. It’s one of his favorite places to eat stateside so we looked for one here. There are a lot of US fast food type restaurants in Manila and Subway just happened to be one of them. We found one in a Glorietta Mall which is close to where we live. So we drove over, parked in one of the garages and climbed up to street level. I know why there will never be a weight problem with the folks who always live here. The amount of stairs you climb in a week can be a big amount of exercise. On the same little stretch of street where SubWay is, just on the road level there is Hard Rock Cafe Manila, Haggen Daas, an Italian place, a Indian restaurant, Golds Gym, a Gloria Jean’s coffee shop and a few others that I forget the names. We’ll try out Hard Rock one day soon. All of this is in the immediate walking area of the Makati Shangri La hotel so if you are ever in the area, and need to stay somewhere with easy access to food and shopping that would be the place to stay.
But I digress…Subway…about the same as what you get in the US. There was nothing really that jumped out as being different except the prices. They have a 6 Inch Sub of the day which is 99 pesos, so less than $2. For another 60 pesos you can make it a meal. Of course a 6 inch sub comes no where close to feeding Chris. He needs a foot long, bag of chips, a drink and anything that he can scrounge off of the rest of our plates. The only thing that was unusual about the subs was the pickles on Ariel’s tuna sub. I took one of them and instead of being a regular dill pickle, it was a sweet pickle slice. It tasted like sweet relish but was cut and looked just like sandwich dill pickles. Definitely not what you expect to bite into but it was good none the less.
We’re hoping the weather is clear to do some more site seeing tomorrow and share some pictures of what we can find.
Oh, and today was class two of Chinese for me. It is definitely tough to grasp but both Chris and I are getting a little better at it.
