POOKABERRY CAFE

Filled with dreams a mere pillow weeping beams willow thin was Chef Pooka ere he was a wee one before even being weaned our would be troubadour of Filipino cuisine slept wrapped in gyoza dough... no small wonder Chef Pooka's Deeliteful Dumplings are yummy bundles of bliss! try them fried of steamed veggie or meat either way precious few are the foodies who fail to hitch a ride on this flavor ferry- lo behold! truth be told munching on Chef Pooka's delectable throw pillows of bliss never gets old-Eat Drink be Pookaberry!

while being diminutive in stature ever since Chef Pooka was little is oft cited to what led to big things little probed are the boundless depths of flavor...the beguiling bang behemoth leviathan appetites receive from Chef Pooka's Bang Bang Shrimp small wonder? cosmic blunder? stroke of fate? sure as sunshine eating some puts the shimmy in your shake once you wrap your lips round golden crisp goodness be it hoodoo voodo or fate or down home tasty goodness making you say "aint life great!" definite maybe... till then Eat Drink be Pookaberry!

Chef Pooka's fifth cousin thrice removed Slinky the Snake's pal Spanky returned from Samothrace with a smile on his face & a song in his heart along with odes countless including one composed by a kitharode named Apollo Citaredo prior to his being immortalized in marble & porphyry curious it should include a recipe said to have come curlicuing thru the mists from Aphrodite-Zerynthia herself! thus therefore evermore henceforward doeth Chef Pooka with sublime serendipitiousness & abundant veneration prepare Zerynthia's Spanakopita knowing one bite of this savory flaky pasty shell filled with spinach sends your tasty buds flying up the slopes of Mount Fengari singing: "Eat Drink Be Pookaberry!"

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Chef Pooka's familial pride shines in every toothsome spoonful of his GrandPoppy's fluffy savory rice fried to fluffy savory sublimity so yummy delish one wonders: "is it not naughty to partake in a tasty dish this nice?!" topped with Beef Chicken Pork Shrimp or veggie GrandPoppy Pooka's Down Home Pinoy Fried Rice is the perfect side piece stand alone on a date or shared out as a double portion with a tableful of friends family or make it to go take it on the road so you can snack on some while you watch your favorite show: "Eat Drink Be Pookaberry!"

Get more bangs out of our best selling shrimpy starter than a sailor on leave in a firecracker factory?! wait till ya taste how delish Pook’s savory saucy shrimpie pimpies BANG BANGS are WHEN sandwiched in a po boy of a pinoy panini! Word is born peeps be pourin on the gas to get over n let Berry's Pooka Paradise give em a chance to hang a fang on one a Pooka's Big Pimpin Pinoy Bang Bang Shrimp Po-Boy Puh-ninis...rinse repeat! suh-weeeet!

Sal's pal Chef Pooka's Pinoy folded pizza is too good not to fill with your choice of: Cheese... Veggie... Pork... Beef... Chicken... Disco Fries...or Mac n Cheese!

Biting into Chef Pookas famous marinated beef ribeye suffused with savory umami succulence sandwiched betwixt two slices is so transcendent you will for a time reside on the other side delighting in all the paradisiacal bliss this miserable world lacks-this is why perhaps steak sandwich aficionados flock to cram this masterstroke magnum opus of Pinoy culinary ingenuity in their piehole for posterity whilst burbling: "Eat Drink Be Pookaberry"

if you haven’t...have it and see why folks flip for Chef Pooka’s famous lechon smothered in gravy this revelation may well be the tastiest nosh served up betwixt toasted loave segments since...sliced bread baybee! comes with Pooka's Mui Famoso Fries...NICE!

Pooka's Infamous EAT ME NOW Enchiladas.....are the stuff of legend... Chef Pooka woke from dreaming about a delicious feast he'd had with his dear friend Escobar Santiago Maraqas who later hunted Chef Pooka down for some mischief involving one of his wives...or was it a girlfriend thanks to a near escape via the laundry chute of Jose Grequeos Con Muertos the local Pulquería Chef Pooka lived to die another day including this one-way back when upon awaking El Pooka found his person cocooned inside a soft tortilla filled toothsome delights! Chef Pooka did not need bifocals to read the escritoire on the wall fast as a piñata colada is eviscerated lo behold! Chef Pooka's Infamous "EAT ME NOW" Enchiladas were born-try one with one of our equally legendary margaritas Mojitos or Piñata Coladas & fast as Chef Pooka vamoosed down Jose Grequeos Con Muertos laundry chute you will soon join us singing: Eat Drink Be Pookaberry! Pick: Beef-Chicken-Pork-Shrimp-comes with rice salad and a BIG smile!

while most of Chef Pooka's dishes must be "tasted to be believed" one bite of his Pinoy Pizza leaves lucky diners wondering: "am I dreaming?" those who have treated themselves to this paragon of Pinoy Pies read this weeping wonderstruck benumbed almost unable to summon the gumption to sing praises to Pooka's epicurean chef-d'oeuvre somehow at the zero hour finding it in them to sing: "Eat Drink Be Pookaberry!"

Back in the day down in his hometown barangay Chef Pooka whilst riding the Red Horse veered off course into a Sari Sari Store at the seminal moment the shop owner Tito was making himself a burrito in this moment was forevermore born-theretofore famished buko venders did feast-now for the first time ever Chef Pooka's Barangay Burrito steeped in East Asian succulence comes! get one...two...three so your tasty buds can know what it tis to sing: "Eat Drink be Pookaberry!"

Roused from deep sleep Chef Pooka awoke in the cheesy womb of what came to be the Kabayan Quesadilla of his dreams longtemps! longtemps! didst trill his queso muse reeling in scintillating rivulets cheesy beefy chicken bliss kissed by a secretive blend of Pinoy spices lo! behold! Chef Pooka's Kabayan Quesadilla approaches your lips-a guest grandiloquent you welcome from the abyssal depths of your soul to the quivering portal of your titillated piehole

golden fried pastry crescents filled with yum Aye twas twilight by the time Chef Pooka's muse Marisol made it halfway thru her penultimate albeit nixtamalized ode to chaussons panzerotti molote pirozhki calzone knish kreatopitakia khuushuur patties pasties & turnovers be they baked fried when not much to Chef Pooka's surprise from the burbling oil came the cry: Ebanghelyo! Ebanghelyo! a word borrow loaned from Spanish "evangelio" thus henceforward forevermore didst a psalm especial chime: "the consumption of Chef Pooka's Empanadas wreath all who doeth partake in a scintillating gastronome aureole divine"

Kabayan korn chips onions peppers covered in gooey cheese topped with chicken or beef get a few for the table to go with the margaritas or mojitos and you are partying Pookaberry style! whilst admiring herself in the mirror of all he surveys benumbed by the narcotic scent of daffodil dove in hand Narcissus dove into the pool of himself wherein he was with the one he loved above all evermore yet even this aethereal bliss was all too soon rend asunder by a rapacious esurience incurable save by the casomorphinous opioid peptidelicious bliss Chef Pooka's gooey pulchritudinous bed of Nakababalani Nachos provides for all self centered in our desire to satiate our collective crunchy cheesy cravings! O! great woe! while you were reading this you could have ordered some!

tastee Pinoy tacos stuffed with miscellaneous yummy bliss whilst opinions are mixed of the namesake all agree Chef Pooka's Duterte Taco are as delicious as Pookaberry's imaginary friend Ollie D. Octopus insists his middle name is not Duterte or how of the dishes in the kosmos the one he loathes above all it Takoyaki

All acquainted with her knew Chef Pooka's auntie Paquita to be the sweetest sourpuss in Pasig! No surprise her prized praiseworthy soupito recipe is so Puckerlishis savory Suh-Weet! choose pork or beef so you can try some & see where food is Fun! Eat Drink be Pookaberry!

Ace's Barker's favorite! will be yours too once you have one you ordered a few of these Pinoy spice suffused cornbread batter sheathed juicy weenies golden fried served on a stick-Comes with Pooka's mui famosa fries get one...two...three...the more you get the lower the price...O! woweee! how nice!

this open faced succulent Visayan tuna salad sandwich enrobed in melted cheese bliss is sure to slaughter your hunger quickfast as Lapulapu sliced thru conquistadors comes with Pooka's Mui Famoso Fries

Once you sink your fangs in Chef Pookie's gooey MaC & Quatro Queso Casserole Superbeau will you know what it means to have your tongue kissed by beatific kisses casomorphine bliss...leaving you burbling with glee: "oooh wee...what a steamy creamy cheesy dream tis this!

Chef Pooka's fifth cousin thrice removed Slinky the Snake's pal Spanky returned from Samothrace with a smile on his face & a song in his heart along with odes countless including one composed by a kitharode named Apollo Citaredo prior to his being immortalized in marble & porphyry curious it should include a recipe said to have come curlicuing thru the mists from Aphrodite-Zerynthia herself! thus therefore evermore henceforward doeth Chef Pooka with sublime serendipitiousness & abundant veneration prepare Zerynthia's Spanakopita knowing one bite of this savory flaky pasty shell filled with spinach sends your tasty buds flying up the slopes of Mount Fengari singing: "Eat Drink Be Pookaberry!"

So delicious is the saucy bliss kissed insides of Chef Pooka's succulent ode to shank of beef marrowbone nestled in a bed of risotto be not surprised to see the eyes of Boudanath smiling back at you from the inner sublime savory sanctum of il buco

pop pooka’s beautific blini’s enrobed in melted quatro fromaggi in your piehole & let the good bytes roll!

After countless years rollin w. the Ottomans under the code name Bob Donner Chef Pooka picked up the recipes for mor middle eastern delicacies than a potentate can shake his mahshi yabraq at his favorite by far being serving up his special blend of spiced rice rolled vine leaves with dollops of garlic yogurt! sayeth Chef Pooka: "bütün doldurulmuş üzüm yarpaqlarını yeyin zeytinyağlı!"Azerbaijanian for Eat it Up!

whilst High on life we all may be...on the off chance a random updraft threatens to down our vainglorious grandiloquent powered steerable aerostat with trifling turbulence rise above it shalt we with one crisp creamy steaming bite of Pooka's Splendiferous pee wee pommes de terre rôties à l'ail & let these garlic roasted multicolored pee wee potatoes take you to new highs singing: "patate mi amor!"

as an aside: to the audience the plimsoled thespian smashing the fourth wall to smithereens ordered so many accompaniments he was so stuffed to the gills he fell into a stuporous snooze wherein the great magus of the stage remained for act two wholly forsaking his scenery eating monologue-let this be a lesson to you sayeth the stage manager from the wings: "nibble if you will were it your wont providing your gorging interlude doeth not intrude on aforesaid forthcoming entree" entre nous what faith Chef Pooka has in raging insatiable appetites no number of sides will cause you to sleep through your entree let alone your just desserts-roused from slumber with a smirk by this the slippered showman awoke beside an side of fries bellowing to an audience quasi comatose: Eat Drink be Pookaberry!

while being diminutive in stature ever since Chef Pooka was little is oft cited to what led to big things little probed are the boundless depths of flavor...the beguiling bang behemoth leviathan appetites receive from Chef Pooka's Bang Bang Shrimp small wonder? cosmic blunder? stroke of fate? sure as sunshine eating some puts the shimmy in your shake once you wrap your lips round golden crisp goodness be it hoodoo voodo or fate or down home tasty goodness making you say "aint life great!" definite maybe... till then Eat Drink be Pookaberry!

Filled with dreams a mere pillow weeping beams willow thin was Chef Pooka ere he was a wee one before even being weaned our would be troubadour of Filipino cuisine slept wrapped in gyoza dough... no small wonder Chef Pooka's Deeliteful Dumplings are yummy bundles of bliss! try them fried of steamed veggie or meat either way precious few are the foodies who fail to hitch a ride on this flavor ferry- lo behold! truth be told munching on Chef Pooka's delectable throw pillows of bliss never gets old-Eat Drink be Pookaberry!

in a deep Tyrian purple funk after an eternal ephemeral intro Chef Pooka was wrapped by a warbling lyric of the singer waxing: "April is a cruel time...Even though the sun may shine...and world looks in the shade as it slowly comes away..." sarcophagized in a paper crepe pastry skin of the lumpia Chef Pooka woke cocooned in a half swoon mused of a day when crisp golden fried meat - veggie or shrimp rolls welcomed spring since then to this day April has not been grey-funny say some basking in the blinding rays of culinary fame Chef Pooka should hear quavering the singer's trill Tyrian purple plea: "still falls the April rain...and the valley's filled with pain..." Away with Melancholy! sink your teeth into Chef Pooka's golden crisp lumpia bliss...Eat Drink be Pookaberry!

O all too well doeth we wee inconsequentialities know how these everchanging seasons of our lives come... go...go...come aggregate separate...behold! what gastrognome hath summoned yon Rollicking Roll Flight For All Seasons? This edible way wending wedding Winter Spring Summer Fall? a mellifluous toothsome culinary ode springing forth from a kitchen cum kitharode phantasmagoric! fortiche! formidable four season gastronomic swansong sung by Chef Pooka featuring: SPRING: gallimaufry of Pooka's ever lovely golden fried Lumpia SUMMER: velveteen sauteed veggie bliss sheathed in lithesome rice sheets FALL: Smitten Chicken Adobo enrobed in crunch scrumptious panko spangled tempura WINTER Orphic poignant pork banderoles enshrouded in Pinoy Ppeongtwigi or...........Order A LA LA Carte!

Pooka's own sublime shredded veggie tempura fritters...is it okay to toss in a couple shrimps??...Okay??! it's OKOY oh BOY! Eat Drink be Pookaberry!

when it comes to crushing your craving for Calamari dive into Pookaberry Cafe's Kosmic Calamari's scrumptious crunchy crisp juicy tender bliss comes with chipotle mayo try one so you too can sing: "heeeeyo! hey yay yay ya oh! Pooka's Kosmic Calamari makes me wax rhapsodes clutched in the beak of the great undersea beast tummy tickled by the velveteen touch of batter dipped golden fried tentacles Eat Drink be Pookaberry!

waffling as is his wont Slinky Snake feeling sloshy after sipping some overcast Sake sought a comestible most suitable soak up his skinful all too soon the serpent was saluting Fortuna seeing to it Slinky's squiggles led him headlong into Chef Pooka's Falafel Stand down an circuitous alleyway off the Strada Fannnufallae singing: Eat Drink be Pookaberry!

lambasting all who failed to battle against the troops of the Berthouts Chef Pooka who'd Scubaed to the bottom of Canal Bruxelles-Charleroi spoke at considerable length to the Manneken Pis who could not stop waxing rhapsodic about how Chef Pooka's KRISPY Brussels were the: "cat's meow...more magnificent than the Parc du Cinquantenaire more delightful than all the misery King Leopold caused cue applause...why? cause when we put our hands together we are one with or without bacon Chef Pooka's KRISPY Brussels are tenfold double the fun when you share them Eat Drink be Pookaberry!

"Oh Bivalvia! by the by to you Lamellibranchiata & Pelecypoda I say in passing to you as I ply this creek of cried tears poured from all souls whose mortal home died ere they tried Chef Pooka's FRIED Brussels!" waxed Citherode as it slipped by a mussel shoal who smiled at the filefish with golden batter dusted pearlescent lips

"what bites is how many BUFFALO bit it" Bill quipped... "Bull!" barked Annie no stranger to the Wild West show as she munched on one of Big Chief Chef Pooka's BUFFALO Cauliflower BITES one of lil Miss Oakley's favorite dishes "what makes these so delicious Bill is no BUFFALO were killed in the process..." before Bill could draw-Annie painted him with a bucket of BUFFALO sauce-saturated to his horseshoe print drip dry drawers Buffalo Bill thrilled to know how with a pistol Annie sparkles like a crystal-shines like the morning sun-flustered Annie was doubly thrilled to see how for once she didn't loose her luster when it came to Buffalo Bill who while no Bronco Buster was someone she might not mind sharing a side of Big Chief Chef Pooka's divine BITES of Cauliflower with despite knowing only someone with the hide of a rhino who killed more Buffalo than she had hot dinners would have the gall to quip: "what bites is how many BUFFALO bit it"

what but a wonderland of boogie leaves slender crisp fries in a pile up dripping with melted cheese! or adobo gravy or both!? have mercy! truth be told sure as in the wee hours after Saturday night turns to Sunday morning or anytime Pooka's Death Before Disco Fries leaves you feelin light feelin light feelin like you died & came back as a yummy pile of Pooka's finest Death Before Disco Fries come try-Eat Drink be Pookaberry!

enclothed in a light batter deep fried to sublime golden crispness served with savory tangy sauce complex as the vagaries entwining everything we say makes life worth living Pooka's Tastebud Tantalizing Tempura comes crunching into juicy succulence rollicking wave crests of crispy deliciousness conceived in bliss created to be adored on delightful sublime bite at a time as melody is slave to rhythm Chef Pooka's Tempura delivers delectability time after time!

pOOKa's GOLDEN fried nuggets of CHicken Bliss are so DEELISH Golden Arches turn GREEN with envy!

tongue tied... lost in a forest of soggy fries unable to rise above the flaccid stand of mundane spuds employing fortitude supra human Chef Pooka climbed to an charred embankment thanking his lucky potatoes for allowing him to beget crispy outside creamy within frites light as the sun just as golden showed by no one save who in the depths of blinding darkness is glowing Chef Pooka's FAMOUS FRIES are fittingly titled sure as the night has a billion eyes Eat Drink Be Pookaberry

Beginning at the end sent Chef Pooka running concentric golden fried light fluffy concentric onion rings round absurdum frightening all who fell into the maelstrom subsumed by irresistible suction round after round Chef Pooka's ONION Rings make for some scintillating supernal munchin ad infinitum selah yayhay! Eat Drink be Pookaberry!

be it Chicken Adobo...Bistek Tagalog...Veggies...Beef Kalderetta nestled in a pair of steamed Bao Buns soon as u get sum BAO... Wow! Eat Drink Be Pookaberry!

Sure to cause a stir from Barangay to Broadway Chef Pooka's tantalizing trio of folded spring roll wrappers golden fried bursting with Veggies-Beefsteak/Chicken Adobo or Beef Kalderetta put the "T" in Tastee! Eat Drink be Pookaberry!

with a ONE fell stroke Chef Pooka sliced the Aubergine asunder onto the grill it fell till charred beyond recognition-reborn scraped clean anointed in glorious egg yolk pan fried golden behold quivering electrum dock piling tuneswept pipes harken to yon colossal hydraulos behold how this m levi detrudens murmura tactu . . . intonet groans: "Tortang Talong!"

cobbs of coddled corn covered with Chef Pooka’s too good not to be true Kaaburiduhan sauce

Oy! How the filamentous sea of mycelium doeth swell underfoot whencefrom Chef Pooka plucked yon fruiting bodies of Oyster mushrooms dredged in beerbatterdom ere dunked in burbling oil till golden brown-woe betide those who would trip of their quivering mortal coil to rejoin the filamentous sea of mycelium below prior to biting into the crisp delicitude of Chef Pooka's Mushroom Chicharron!

Chef Pooka's amigo Karlos the Koala told Pooka a joke that was so funny Chef Pooka started snorting louder than a Lechon or Pig! Pooka's LECHON Kawali is crispy pork belly that will leave yours tickled pink as you will be when you come in & ask your server to tell you Chef Pooka's compadre Karlos's Koala joke! snort snot! giggle giggle! hey hey! Eat Drink be Pookaberry!

Hey Ho! Ah-Doe-Bo! bellow Bucks n Does! With one whiff of Chef Pooka's CHICKEN or PORK Adobo all go bugeyed let alone a bite...if you want to taste what real Filipino CHICKEN Adobo is all about...if you want to let loose your inner Ah-Doe-Bo you are in the right place! Crack open your piehole & stick some of Chef Pooka's delish shredded goodness in your face...one taste & wild chicken pigs aint gonna tear you away from cleaning your plate! for a reel thrill ride for the ages have us serve it up on a bed of penne! Eat Drink be Pookaberry!

All acquainted with her knew Chef Pooka's auntie Paquita to be the sweetest sourpuss in Pasig! No surprise her prized praiseworthy soupito recipe is so Puckerlishis savory Suh-Weet! choose pork or beef so you can try some & see where food is Fun! Eat Drink be Pookaberry!

way back before elephants can remember scintillating steel spears of rain blazed straight down the grey slate sky-where the sun went no hue man alive could say including Chef Pooka who lay sleepless beneath the corrugated iron roof of his Jeepney dreams of superstar chefdom someday skewered sure as dawn betrays darkness of this primordial monsoon were Chef Pooka's BBQ Skewers born...sound the horn yipiee! nevermore still! racing fast as the engine of a Jeepney Chef Pooka's heart beamed BBQ bathed rays none purer than LOVE's Lust skewered! horary! hip hip! ere our collective mortal coil we trip Eat Drink be Pookaberry!

friends! family! fandango dancers! let us lend you our pig ears and bellies sent whizzing sizzling to your table with an egg on top! oh say you can see why Chef Pookie calls it Sisig! tay-sting is bee-leaving! Eat Drink be Pooka-Sisig! CONSUMER ADVISORY PROVIDED FOR RAW AND UNDERCOOKED FOODS: significantly increased risk associated with certain especially vulnerable consumers eating such foods in raw or undercooked form