Chef Pooka's amigo Karlos the Koala told Pooka a joke that was so funny Chef Pooka started snorting louder than a Lechon or Pig! Pooka's LECHON Kawali is crispy pork belly that will leave yours tickled pink as you will be when you come in & ask your server to tell you Chef Pooka's compadre Karlos's Koala joke! snort snot! giggle giggle! hey hey! Eat Drink be Pookaberry!
Hey Ho! Ah-Doe-Bo! bellow Bucks n Does! With one whiff of Chef Pooka's CHICKEN or PORK Adobo all go bugeyed let alone a bite...if you want to taste what real Filipino CHICKEN Adobo is all about...if you want to let loose your inner Ah-Doe-Bo you are in the right place! Crack open your piehole & stick some of Chef Pooka's delish shredded goodness in your face...one taste & wild chicken pigs aint gonna tear you away from cleaning your plate! for a reel thrill ride for the ages have us serve it up on a bed of penne! Eat Drink be Pookaberry!
Pooka's Auntie Paquita's Praiseworthy Puckerlishis Suh-Weet Sourpuss Sinigang SOupito
$26.00
All acquainted with her knew Chef Pooka's auntie Paquita to be the sweetest sourpuss in Pasig! No surprise her prized praiseworthy soupito recipe is so Puckerlishis savory Suh-Weet! choose pork or beef so you can try some & see where food is Fun! Eat Drink be Pookaberry!
friends! family! fandango dancers! let us lend you our pig ears and bellies sent whizzing sizzling to your table with an egg on top! oh say you can see why Chef Pookie calls it Sisig! tay-sting is bee-leaving! Eat Drink be Pooka-Sisig!
CONSUMER ADVISORY PROVIDED FOR RAW AND UNDERCOOKED FOODS: significantly increased risk associated with certain especially vulnerable consumers eating such foods in raw or undercooked form
Chef Pooka is Kah-rayzee about PANCIT & for good reason-this tastee noodle dish- first introduced to the Philippines by the Chinese was quickly absorbed into the culture influenced by the strong Spanish presence comingled with indigenous culinary techniques leaves tastebuds saluting veggies sautéing cooked in a broth or braised noodles comingling with a succulent choice of inclusions as varied as the number of islands in the Philippines you too will be Kah-rayzee about this fun yummy dish made with LOVE for sharing! Eat Drink be Pookaberry!
Rice... is a bowl of Life...murmers Luz Azul one of Chef Pooka's Gurus..so it follows-when LIFE gets UGLY Chef Pooka's UGLY Rice Bowl is cosmically engineered to keep you sitting PRETTY happy satisfied sunny side up as the egg atop a generous mountainous mound of yellow rice surrounded by your choice of toppings including Chicken Adobo...Beef Tapas...Pork Tocino & MORE! gives you the gettup to go EAT Life before it EATS you! Ah! how Sweet soul soothing is the taste of serendipity! Eat Drink be Pookaberry!
Pooka's favorite! a juicy chicken quarter- thigh & leg seasoned with lemongrass cooked at a low-temperature for a good ole long-time aka Sous vide- français for "under vacuum" before getting grilled to perfection till the meat tumbles from the bone whilst your tastee buds quavering: "Eat Drink be Pookaberry!
during their infamous 333-year occupation of the Philippines the Spaniards bequeathed this iteration of beef stew originally hailing from Iberian Peninsula to the Philippines where it has been simmering ever since absorbing all of the local Pinoy flavor in the process - rarely has neocolonial cuisine been more beefy nor more sociologically appetizing...yummy as we all are the lump sum of our constituents are the ingredients of what makes a Filipino a diverse medley of local & invasive species makes this dish no less tasty quite the contrary while the past is in part bitter-how sweet time heals all wounds as good food sooths hungry souls Eat Drink be Pookaberry!
no stranger to the streets...child of the city...nursed on her magnificent glowing...owing to fate conned by circumstance does Chef Pooka refugee of Quezon city skewer pork blood intestines chicken feet pig ears & for the vegans veggie intestines presumably wrenched from a now disemboweled aubergine STREET SKEWERS are time tested tastebud therapy sure to cure gourmands from moribund doldrums of foodie mediocrity wielding skewer scimitars oscillate wildly whilst grabbing hold of fleeting life by the intestines--scream Eat Drink be Pookaberry!
PINOY chop SUEY Stir FRY!
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Huey cousin to Chef Pooka's Sister's husband Coolie's cousin Louie was so smitten by Chef Pooka's chop SUEY Stir FRY he named his Aunt Gertie's brother's nephew's son in law Wilmer's cat "Chompers" in honor of the dish-when asked why Louie -mouth crammed full of chop SUEY Stir FRY posited he didn't need a reason before embarking on a diatribe about how much better the world would be if we stopped rationalizing leading those present to find it pleasing surmising abiding cocooned in the maelstrom of chaos comprising the soul of Louie caterpillar pupa cozy lay a revelation wherein meaning issues through a bleeding lack of reason aka chop SUEY Stir FRY a dish so delish one whiff bequeaths all foodies bon appetite Eat Drink be Pookaberry
Chicken Tinola Soup
$25.00
Cuddled up with a bowl a Pooka's own Chicken Soup Tinola suddenly life seems less grey spoon yourself full of scintillating supernal rays of poulette giddy bliss kissed soothed by the epitome of Pinoy comfort food dance dizzier than you'd be had you guzzled a crate of Pouilly-Fuissé Eat Drink be Pookaberry!
Chef Pooka's deeliteful Pinoy BeEf StEaK served with potatoes veggies carmelized onion in a savory sauce! Sobrang Sarap! Eat Drink Be Pookaberry!
Chef Pooka's Guru Paluba Pandandarharsarharti's personal perennially puh-lasing philosophic introspective interlude of Beef Peanut Stew with Eggplant Beans Baby Bok Choy
served with Chef Pooka's famoso yellow rice this medley of beatific veggies bathed in the milk of coconut milk has been passed down to Chef Pooka from Asuras Devas forsooth? aye-do dive in so you too can savor this Pinoy Samudra Manthanaesque amarita elixir initiated by Indra King of Svarga who whispering to Hespestus his divine elephant was overheard by soothsayer Durvasa who wreathed in a special garland given to him by an apsara waxes rhapsodic singing: "Eat Drink be Pookaberry!"
Congee Aroz Caldo!
$26.00
Arroz cognomen Caldo na'er tasted sweet as Chef Pooka's Congee-to sip sum iz 2 sup on sublimity whilst taste buddies trill: "Eat Drink be Congee!"
Pooka's soooper savory BEEF Soup with Veggies! Sobrang Sobrang Sarap!
Pinakbet a la Pooka!
$24.00
Pinakbet a la Chef Pooka is his Aunt Lualua's favorite pork stew of squash eggplant okra yard-long beans & bitter melon-it should be! it's her recipe! Eat Drink be Pookaberry!
Chef Pooka’s Aunt Lualu’s own yummy veggie coconut curry
Whilst Bysshe Shitake his Sous Chief strummed yon citharode Chef Pooka waxes rhapsodic odes to Henan Lumian Lormee-Fujianese Hokkien -predecessesque primogenic pater familias of LOMI LOMI Chef Pooka's savory thick soupy deelish Chicken egg noodle dish know to cause gastrognomes the world over to collectively launch into a laudatory outpour dwarfing the carbon outgassed from the Earth's deep interior core
ManGgO! ManGgO! ManGgO! yodeled Chef Pooka into his stew pot! appear! appear! behold! from the unquiet depths thencefrom was conjured a toothsome savory stew Sautee of aubergine garlic spinach shrimp or pork ManGgO j'adore whispered Chef Pooka in the small hours ere yon molten huevo named Helios doeth double tap SNOOZE on his supernal alarm snoring so loud Luna sings to the neonate dawn: ManGgO! come to me in waking dreams while Sol sleeps in an aureole of stellae! Eat Drink be Pookaberry!
From the inky depths of Abaddon sending ripples into the oblivion wreathed in an areole of onions caramelizing garlic ginger soya comes Chef Pooka astride a cephalopod colossal called SQUID Sizzle!
sure as Chef Pooka curries favor with subtle flavors he is in no hurry when it comes to Kari Curry slow cooking chicken to tender delish along with carrots capsicum potatoes in coconut milk till it trills: "come hither" one taste of Kari Manok will have you singing: Sobrang Sarap! Eat Drink be Pookaberry!
Teriayaki Manok a la Huseng Sisiw
$26.00
suffering from writers block Huseng Sisiw found himself craving for sustenance in desperation for something to fill him thinking if he just had the right treat he would be back up n running Sisiw tried Jolibee Shakey's Mang Inasal Chowking alas! all the food from those place did was make Sisiw loose his lunch leaving him even more esurient peckish evermore stuck in writers rut-with no where left to go in the dread throes of woebegone weltschmerz before him arose Pookaberry's POP up Pushpaka Vimana after Sisiw scarfed down some of Chef Pooka's signature Teriayaki Manok he wrote "Ah...! Sayang Na Sayang....Chicken teriyaki filipino style!
Chō oishī ! ito ay nasa aking bibig!" in one sitting fueled by three additional servings scribbling in a now lost cover sheet: "Kumain Ng Inumin Maging Pookaberry!"
Pinahiran Ang Atay At Sibuyas
$23.00
Chef Pooka's Great Aunt Lakasngloob's favorite! Chicken Livers smothered in caramelized onions enrobed in mushroom sauce! Gaano kasaya!
Barangay Pancit Paah-taay!
$26.00
Pooka's own local neighborhood favorite mix of miki noodles stir fried with pepper carrot cabbage garlic scallions topped with crispy pork belly & boiled quail eggs
Chicken FEET Pastiche a La Pooka
$24.00
in his Ode to the pied of the poulet Chef Pooka drew from claw footed muses of yore be it Lilith Shekinah Lamashtu Melpomene even...if memory serves...Lesmosyne to produce a Chicken Feet Pastiche! Braised or Barbequed continues to enthuse persist so mighty is this dish deliciousness! Eat Drink be Pookaberry!
Pinoy Pierogi GNOCCHI Potato Cheese Dreamz!
$23.00
Pierogen reclining odalisque on a bed of gnocchi enrobed in savory mushroom sauce-Chef Pookas culinary ode to Pelagia Pasqualina an Italo-Polish lass...alas! one taste & you know the rest! oh...you don't?! well then...e'er since he was wee Chef Pooka's dreams were suffused with visons of shimmering supernal pierogi wreathed in gnocchi adrift awash in seasoning stratocumuli plying a savory cream sauce-why else pray would Chef Pooka's very first dish PEROGI GNOCCHI Potato Cheese Dreams of Bliss?! Eat Drink be Pookaberry! endnote: half afloat retried from a amphora buoy the MS read:
" Of all the times Chef Pooka did piddle around the Pole the quintessential epiphanous moment came when he circumnavigate all known Voivodeships of the Land of Pole where in Wrocław Chef Pooka was awarded the Golden Wrocław Gnomes for his Pookaneese Varenykini Pierogi a timeless papaqueso concerto"
Sipocot Baboy X-press
$27.00
creamy porky bliss! tender pork with chilies slow cooked in coconut milk with shrimp paste onions tomato garlic & Pooka's secret spices-
Pork belly stewed in fresh tomatoes shrimp paste chili peppers eggplant served with rice because rice is life!
RISOTTO Pinoy Pugliese Ilocano Paisano a la Pooka
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Pooka’s savory celebration of creamy aromatic umami arroz suffused with Olongapo Pugliese infusions of spices seasoning begets a risotto oh so Ilocano paisano it sings arias to your tastebuds in Tagalog! choose: pork-shrimp-chicken-veggie
Mamarang's Mushroom Lentil Dal
$24.00
sloe-cooked lentils suffused with tomato sauteed with mushroom onion spices served over Chef Pooka's umami garlic rice sobrang sarap!
Pooka's Juicy Krisp Pulchritudinous Roasted Pinoy Suckling Duck
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Born of a recipe culled from Chef Pooka's countess intrepid untrammeled tintinnabulating Tonkinoisesque Siam meandering bravura Borneol inimitable Indochine tours of the East comes Pooka's Pulchritudinous Roasted Pinoy Suckling Duck at once Juicy Krisp tender marinated duck flesh enrobed in golden brittle skin is a delicacy indubitable worthy of every iota comprising the scintillating aureole of anticipatory enthusiasm surrounding what has come to be one of the most delish of all of Chef Pooka's galaxy of candescent canard culinary confabulations e'er to exist! served with a raft of rollicking roasted peewee potatoes
way back before elephants can remember scintillating steel spears of rain blazed straight down the grey slate sky-where the sun went no hue man alive could say including Chef Pooka who lay sleepless beneath the corrugated iron roof of his Jeepney dreams of superstar chefdom someday skewered sure as dawn betrays darkness of this primordial monsoon were Chef Pooka's BBQ Skewers born...sound the horn yipiee! nevermore still! racing fast as the engine of a Jeepney Chef Pooka's heart beamed BBQ bathed rays none purer than LOVE's Lust skewered! horary! hip hip! ere our collective mortal coil we trip Eat Drink be Pookaberry!
