Picture this: You and your buddies are done drinking booze and partying around Malate and, without warning, you crave for some decent yet affordable Pinoy meals. The hour is late and you can't bring yourself to walk to that old famous chicken barbecue place along Roxas Boulevard anymore. What are you to do?
Here's a tip. At the corner of Mabini and Remedios in Manila sits Nid's Balot N Bilao Atbp. No it's not a balut store. Its name takes after the binalot fares that have conquered the local fastfood scene since the 90's. Although Nid's does not exactly wrap their meals in banana leaves, they serve food on plates lined with such leaves -- giving their meals that binalot character without being too messy.
The eatery's main fares are of the silog varieties - you know, tapsilog, longsilog, among other items. But they also serve bulalo, kaldereta, sisig, pansit in bilao, lugaw, assorted inihaw food and other Pinoy favorites.
On my last visit, I decided to have a super early breakfast, or super late dinner, at around 11:00pm. I ordered the tinapa (smoked fish) silog. For less than a hundred pesos, I got three pieces of smoked fish, a cup of fried rice, soup, and achara. My companion ordered grilled tilapia. Cravings satisfied! read more