4 BUDGET-FRIENDLY EATS FOR STUDENTS AROUND TAFT
By: Beatrice Cinco
1. Tori Box
(810 Castro, Malate, Manila// Monday-Sunday from 8am to 9pm)
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Tori Box is a restaurant that serves Japanese inspired food. They offer their ever so famous Kara-Age Pop. It’s a bitesize deep fried chicken coated with your choice of flavor. To cater to every person’s needs, the Kara-Age Pop can be partnered with rice, fries, mojos and even chips. It’s just simply a no brainer!
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PHOTO: Kara-Age Pop. Photo by: Beatrice Cinco / Oracle
2. Gokain
(2F University Mall, 2057 Taft Ave, Malate, Manila// Monday-Sunday from 10am to 9pm)
Gokain is a restaurant that offers Korean style food. Just like any other Korean restaurant, they have different kinds of ramen namely Haemul ramen which has vegetables, Sausage ramen which contains sausages cut into pieces and Cheese ramen which of course has cheese in it. Besides ramen, they also serve carbonara with their own twist, called the Kore-bonara. Gokain can be your go-to place for affordable Korean food!
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PHOTO: Kore-Bonara (left) and Sausage Ramen (right) Photo by: Beatrice Cinco / Oracle
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3. Chef Bab’s Sisig
(2F University Mall, 2057 Taft Ave, Malate, Manila// Monday-Sunday from 9am to 9pm)
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From the name itself Chef Bab’s restaurant is known for their famous sisig, but unlike any other restaurants that serve sisig, this restaurant gives you the freedom to choose what kind of sisig you are having, from healthy choices like squid and tofu sisig to sinfully irresistible ones like bacon sisig and meaty ones like beef sisig. Not only that, but they also allow you to choose 2 kinds of sisig to be mixed as one! Now that’s something!
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PHOTO: Bacon Sisig. Photo by: Beatrice Cinco / Oracle
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4. Tazzlers
(2585 Leon Guinto Street, Malate, Manila// Monday-Sunday from 9am to 9pm)
This one is a Kulasa favorite! Just right across St. Scholastica’s College, Tazzlers is a very chill place where in you can get sizzling food for just under 150 pesos. It’s right beside the computer shops, so while waiting for your papers to be printed you can stop by Tazzlers for a quick bite.
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ORACLE™, MARCH 2019
