straight from neverland

last night was not the first time i ate at santush. but it was the first time i had nothing else to say but "sarap!" for a good ten minutes, gobbling down the shawarma pizza (of course it took much longer than that to finish the whole serving...). after a while i just started to sound stupidly redundant i had to use another coherent one-word sentence.

me: galing!
tof: ng alin?
me: ng pagkakagawa nila neto

in other words, sarap!

there really is no other way to describe it, so pardon me for the seemingly utter lack of adjectives from my vocabulary. a few other choice words do come to mind, though: cheese, crisp, busog, butter, white sauce (which is actually garlic sauce, but white sauce is just more mysterious, so there). lots on the last two, mind you. right about now, i am spacing out just thinking about the melted butter and white sauce on that danged shawarma pizza. kickass talaga, paker.

the butter doesn't come with the pizza, by the way. i just grabbed it for myself from tof's rice. *shrug* i had better use for it.

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i heard this guy on the table next to us boast to his friends that "memorized ko menu dito!" the competitive freak in me, fueled by the unbelievably crispy delight that was the shawarma pizza and ice cold beer, thought: "ako rin..gusto ko."

i didn't get to memorize the menu, but that will certainly just come as a natural offshoot of more visits to come.

santush is located at meralco ave and serves persian foodums. persian fusion, so goes their tagline. for a long time, the only persian place i trusted and went to was mr.kebab's at west ave. and they certainly got my standards high, particularly with the sauce (white souce!). i am no mediterranean dish connoisseur, but i'd have to say santush did a pretty fine job.

pretty fine, in fact, that i found myself craving for their kebabs the past couple of weeks. not just any kebab, but santush kebab. picky, eh? hehe. and now that i've met their shawarma pizza, am just about set to make it my top kebab place. just about, but not quite yet.

other must-munch for me would be the indian spiced chicken, chicken curry, and basically whatever kebabs they cook up. i've been reading reviews that the eggplant chutney is also a blast, but i doubt i'll ever try that.

am allergic to eggplant, that's why.

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i give it four stars just because i haven't tried out everything in their menu. oh, that and they don't have chelo kebabs.. i think. i can't be too sure. i haven't memorized their menu.