Buffalo Wings n' Things Banawe

October 18, 2014, Thirdy had a checkup at Chinese General Hospital. I slept in, so Chea and I decided to meet up later at S&R Munoz.

We met up at 1pm, and did some shopping. It was a week after their end-of-the-year sale, so there were still some discounted items.

After that, we went to the Garden of the Divine Word columbarium to visit my brother. It was almost 3 pm already and we haven't had lunch yet. We decided to drive towards Banawe to find something to eat there.

We ended up at Buffalo Wings N' Things since we haven't been there before, and there was a free parking space. But I was mostly attracted by a signage outside boasting of a 99 peso chicken fillet meal and a 129 peso chicken wings meal.

The menu. Couldn't find the picture of the other side. Too bad, it had the list of dips.

The establishment has an outdoor area made up of several tables and chairs. They serve alcohol so the area is good for boisterous fun, and probably for a lot of smoking too. But since it was mid afternoon, there weren't any people occupying the outdoor tables.

Inside, there's four tables. One was already occupied by a couple. So we took the one in between them and the order counter. The place has a high ceiling so it's dimly lit.

It comes in Large too.

There were about 2 waitresses and another one manning the kitchen at the time.

The kitchen. Buffalo style. Don't know what that means.

We didn't bother looking too much at the rest of the menu, although I remember most of it's affordable. We just went ahead and ordered 2 of the 99 peso meal for Chea and Tita Fe, while I went with the 129 wings meal. I also ordered a large Down Town Iced Tea (additional of 20 pesos on the base price). Chea also ordered a Blueberry ice cream dessert.

Uh, the area beside the kitchen. 

We waited a while for the order to come through, and another two groups of people filled the remaining 2 two tables. Before we left, a family arrived and sat outside, since those are the only tables that could fit more than 4 persons.

Thirdy messing around with his mom.

The drink arrived first. And after a few minutes, the food came all at the same time.

Chea ordered the butter dip for her meal. I think she ordered a different dip for Tita Fe but I wasn't able to taste hers. They asked to separate the dip from the meal, so they came in small plastic dip cups. I ordered the Basil and Garlic dip on mine, and I didn't bother having it separated.

The chicken tenders with the dirty rice and butter something dip. I think there's about 4 pieces of them chicken strips.

We were given plastic disposable gloves, so you can eat with your hands, especially since you were handling chicken wings. Thirdy played around with his, since it was too big (also, they didn't have kid chairs or booster chairs). Chea just fed Thirdy with a spoon.

Even without the dip, the chicken was pretty good. Thirdy ate big chunks of chicken and he really got into it.

The meal came with rice, Dirty Rice they call it. It was yellowish, but it didn't taste the similar looking java rice from other establishments (my favorite is Kipp's). It kind of reminded me of jambalaya. I like cajun dishes, whatever little I've tasted of it in cajun-themed restaurants in the country. After a brief googling, it seemed that I was correct. Dirty rice is a cajun dish.

Original buffalo wings with Basil and garlic dip. 2 and a half pieces of chicken wings. 

On top of the dirty rice were some relish (looks like pickles and some tomatoes), which gave the rice additional flavor. It was really good.

As for the dips, I didn't like the butter dip. It was too buttery. However, I liked the Basil and garlic. I'm biased of course since I love basil. Still, it was pretty good. It was sweet with a little bit of tang.

It's ice cream. What more do you need to know?

The blueberry cake was ok. It was hard vanilla ice cream topped with whip cream and some blueberry sauce. Third loves ice cream so he had no complaints, except when Chea tried to stop him from eating more.

Our bill was about 520 or so pesos, but with a senior citizen discount, came to about 485 pesos. That's pretty affordable.

Overall, I really liked the place. It's pretty inexpensive. You can order a half pound of chicken wings for only 149 pesos, while 1 pound costs 409 pesos. They have other american fast food menu items like hotdogs, burgers, nachos, fries, etc if you want to skip the rice which are all under 200 pesos.

The place was clean, and the music was light R&B. The staff were courteous and was open to conversation as one waitress was chatting with one of the customers about the dips and some funny anecdotes of other customers trying out the really spicy ones.

Also, the place was a bit further from the very busy areas in Banawe, so it was quiet and you could really enjoy your meal. The only drawback is you'd have a hard time getting there if you had a car, and if you did, parking would be a problem on busy hours.