Christmas Lights at the Ayala Triangle and Chef Lau's Pugon Roasters

12/20/2014. As with every year, we try to visit the Christmas lights installation at the Ayala Triangle Park. This year isn't any different. So Chea, Precy (Thirdy's yaya), Thirdy and myself piled into the car and drove off to Makati.

We wanted to drop by for the first show around 6 pm, but traffic was heavier than usual, so we arrived 10 minutes past that, and the light show was already halfway through. Plus there was a Mass right after, so we had to wait for the next show at 7 pm. We just looked around for dinner first while the Mass was going on.

Almost every establishment was full, but we lucked into an empty table at Chef Lau's Pugon Roasters.

fast food price restaurant quality meals

As the name implies, most of everything is cooked inside firebrick ovens. The good part is that everything is affordable. There where meals for less than 100 pesos!

Thirdy looking around for his nanay

I ordered the Pork Liempo Roast, while Chea ordered the pancit with chicken (this was a new combo meal) for Thirdy, Precy and herself, as she wasn't too hungry. She also ordered a leche flan for dessert.

still waiting

There were a lot of people, so there was a bit of a wait for the food.

Later, when the meals arrived, I got right into it as I was hungry. The liempo, as advertised, was as flavorful as lechon. But there was a lot of fat, so heart lovers be wary. Also, since it's cooked inside a pugon, there are parts that taste burnt.

tastes burnt and a lot of fat. 

As for the chicken, it's ok. The chicken that came with the pancit is the breaded kind. It looks fried rather than roasted, but it's good enough. The pancit is kinda ok.

chicken, rice, and a little bit of pancit

The leche flan is, well, a typical leche flan, although this one has some chocolate syrup with it.

leche flan

Overall, food's pretty good considering the price.

With the long wait, we were barely finished when the second show of the night started, so we had to get up quickly, and move back to the light display area.

A light drizzle was starting so we had to go back to the nearest establishment with some roofing to shield us from the rain.

find thirdy and nanay chea if you can

This year's light show is a bit of a let down from last year. We've been here for three years straight and I feel like that the quality kind of gone down year after year. Maybe it'll be better next year.