In a megacity full of eateries that treat their tapsilog as simple lamang tiyan and pantawid gutom (there are no exact English equivalents to these Filipino phrases, I believe), Angus Tapa Centrale in Kamuning offers a different take on the pedestrian all-day-breakfast meal with an Angus beef version.
I didn’t know about this place until kumpare fraternity brod and long-time college friend Dom brought me and a fellow lawyer to the Kamuning location recently. Online portal Spot.ph apparently has taken notice a long time ago, naming Tapa Centrale the number one tapsilugan in the Metro.
Meals are cooked to order and eaten al fresco in the simplest of settings beside the road. We needed to try the Angus tapsilog, of course. I also wanted to taste just the hotdog but our tindera didn’t want to separate it from the silog package, so I got that one too. Our orders were rounded out by the spicy tapa version, Spam fries, and sans rival cake for dessert.
The thin strips of beef were succulent. Devoid of litid and with fairly acceptable amounts of taba for the price.
The hotdog was as ordinary as it gets. Our shared “can” of Spam fries was comfort food-pleasing. Whoever the genius is who “invented” Spam fries deserves eternal glory and recognition.
My one complaint would have to be the fried rice, which I consider an essential element in any good silog dish. Tapa Centrale apparently mixed old sinaing with new sinaing, thus the sticky, unwelcome blobs of rice in my serving. Good fried rice should be completely buhaghag.
Angus Tapa Centrale doesn’t rewrite and reconfigure the tapsilog because there’s absolutely no need to. The restaurant improves on it instead with good, affordable product.
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