Katsu Cafe (Marcos Highway, Antipolo City)

After a bit of research (and by my understanding, forgive me if I'm wrong), I found out that the Japanese word "katsu" means "to win". You got to love Wikipedia. Talking about food, it means cutlet. If you happen to be in Marikina, Cainta or Antipolo, there's this little food haven along Marcos Highway past Sta. Lucia and Robinson's Metro East and before reaching Masinag - Katsu Cafe. I love eating here, hence this writing piece about my latest visit.  

Since people love photos:

Their logo.

Their logo, this time in another angle. Wow.

The place looks good. I like how they like using wood for decoration, I think it's the Japanese sensibility that fuels this. I love the music they play, I've heard tracks from the likes of Coldplay, Stereophonics, Keane and the Verve play here. 

Their katsu meals are served with miso soup, salad (shredded cabbage with sesame dressing) and unlimited rice. 

I was thinking of a punny caption, but rice is so boring it doesn't deserve one.

And while waiting for it to be served you get to make this:

This is where you dip your katsu.

You get to pulverize innocent sesame seeds and drown their remains in that secret katsu sauce.

And suddenly, food is served. My wife today ate the Chicken Katsu set. I've tried this before, and it's delicious. Probably the safest bet if you're eating here for the first time, or if you've got kids with discriminating taste in food. Yes, it's a fried dish, but it's tummy friendly. You won't feel heavy after eating even if you asked for another serving of rice.

We also ordered the side salad, as I thought what I ordered didn't come with it. I was wrong. Oh well, more salad for us then:

I ordered the Jumbo Prawn Tempura Set. Three pieces of big-ass prawns for me to conquer. I think this is the best tempura I've had in my life. I think they force fed these poor creatures umami seasoning - they're that tasty. And you always get prawn. ALWAYS. IN. EVERY. BITE. No breading overkill here. Now for some tempura porn:

The aftermath. And also because taking pictures of your food before eating them is too mainstream:

Where'd the food go?

Another satisfying meal. This place never let us down since we first tried it. It's a win indeed. 

It's something

Okay, it's the first day of the new year. Many of us are going to start writing dates with erasures maybe for the next two or three months. For me, I'll start this blog. Here I will be posting stuff that I plan to do for the year, hopefully somehow to leave an imprint on the interwebz. 

I plan to do a few projects this year, those of the creative kind. More specifically, video content. This will serve as a journal, a behind-the-scenes look of these activities whether I complete them or not. I may also post some random stuff in just to fill in content. I'll try to be as visual as possible in my successive posts - I'll be putting in as much pictures or whatever imagery as possible. 

I hope these would capture your interest. I really am not in the mood for writing right now, so forgive me if this reads like a bore. I had to start the ball rolling here, so hopefully things will be more interesting as time goes on. Thanks for reading, and welcome to my blog.