It was a Saturday again and I was able to influence my lunchmates (classmates) from my graduate program to eat where I like to eat. I was able to lure them this time to an eatery I just discovered the last week. It looks just like a normal sari-sari store in Valencia St.<\/a> at first glance, but if you’ll look closely, it has an eatery inside. The name of the place is <\/a> Pampanguena’s Eatery (the name suggests that the food they serve is inspired by Pampanga’s cuisine.<\/a><\/p>\n

I ordered, as the title suggests, a kare-kare or a pork stew in peanut sauce. <\/a><\/p>\n

It was good. What made it more special is the shrimp paste<\/a> that came with it. It was prepared with chunks of meat in it. Although it can stand on its own as a meal, it made the kare-kare taste better.<\/p>\n

Overall, it was good. Although the kare-kare had only a few pieces of vegetable on it, I still enjoyed my lunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was a Saturday again and I was able to influence my lunchmates (classmates) from my graduate program to eat where I like to eat. I was able to lure them this time to an eatery I just discovered the last week. It looks just like a normal sari-sari store in Valencia St. at first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,19,21,27],"tags":[377,378,193,188,194],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theactivetalker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theactivetalker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theactivetalker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theactivetalker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theactivetalker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/theactivetalker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":451,"href":"http:\/\/theactivetalker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theactivetalker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theactivetalker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theactivetalker.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}