Fely J's Kitchen

This weekend was a true-blue Greenbelt 5 weekend--I mean we there twice, and our late Sunday lunch (as in super late at 3:30 pm) took place in Fely J's Kitchen.  Andi was pretty noisy already (I guess her tummy was acting up), but Vicky & Monique waited patiently for our food to arrive.  We started off with 2 orders of pancit--canton and palabok, both of which Monique enjoyed.  Vicky also had dinuguan (blood stew) with puto (rice cake), which made the meal seem like meryenda.  However, the pork slab adobo and the crispy-fried tilapia that arrived immediately after, made the meal still fall in the lunchtime category, just right for my hungry tummy.  Fely J's Kitchen is part of the LJC Group of Restaurants founded by the late restaurateur Larry Cruz of Cafe Adriatico fame (note that Fely J is his mother), and we're happy that the group has taken pains to serve Filipino cuisine with ingenious culinary twists (the crispy fried tilapia for example, was served with a sweet-sour sauce that was Thai-inspired).  At the same time, the food is still Pampangueno in character, and the restaurant ambience is definitely Pinoy.  Quite a good meal, we spent something like P400 per person, and we left the restaurant with our tummies refilled!