"Gambas al ajillo (garlic shrimp) is a popular Spanish dish found
principally in the south and center of Spain. The primary ingredients
consist of shrimp, garlic and olive oil but there are many variations.
It's often served in Spain's tapas bars as an appetizer. However, this
dish is so popular that it's occasionally offered as an entrée." - Wikibooks
I have eaten maybe a hundred variations of Gambas. Joke. Maybe not a hundred but marami na talaga. I have tried Gambas drowning in banana catsup, Gambas with small shrimps, big shrimps, not-so-fresh shrimps, really really spicy Gambas, Gambas hiding under a nest of onion rings, extremely tart Gambas, sizzling Gambas, expensive Gambas, cheap Gambas, dry Gambas, soupy Gambas, and yes, Gambas made by Tita Nelia Silverio of Let's Cook My Way. She prepared her tweaked Gambas recipe as a part of her TAPAS cooking lesson. What came out was this beautifully presented Gambas! Happy eating!
Grab a Crab & Coffee Club 101 @ SM General Santos City
They say that Grab a Crab is one of the very few
fine dining restaurants in GenSan City. The effort was there… from the service
to the food presentation. Sige na. I guess they can’t afford to have a true-blue fine dining restaurant here… the overhead would be just too big.
Our dinner was passable. Like what I said, the effort was there. The Beef Tenderloin was served on a sizzling plate and tasted catsup-y. The Crispy Shrimp
(very cheap!) was sweet and spicy while the Garlic Fried Chicken was a bit dry (though I liked the very light taste of burnt garlic). Like
what I've mentioned before, I’m partial to fried chicken with thin breading. The breading protects the meat from getting too dry (eating dry white meat is like eating cotton balls).
After the restaurant staff gave me their upbeat rendition of the
birthday song (thank you!), we transferred to the connecting coffee shop, the Coffee Club 101 (same owners).
Coffee was good, freshly-brewed.
That was our first day at GenSan (not much activity, no?). Second and third days were spent in South Cotabato... And I must say that South Cotabato was the highlight of our one-week vacation.
Crispy Shrimps
P240
Beef Tenderloin P220
Garlic Fried Chicken (half) P150
Crabmeat Fried Rice (for four pax) P130
Mango Shake P60
