Pookaberry Cafe 140 Pike Street

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!

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!

Chef Pooka is Kah-rayzee about PANCIT & for good reason-this tastee noodle dish- first introduced to the Philippines by the Chinese was quickly absorbed into the culture influenced by the strong Spanish presence comingled with indigenous culinary techniques leaves tastebuds saluting veggies sautéing cooked in a broth or braised noodles comingling with a succulent choice of inclusions as varied as the number of islands in the Philippines you too will be Kah-rayzee about this fun yummy dish made with LOVE for sharing! Eat Drink be Pookaberry!

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

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

Only when you sink your fangs in Chef Pookie's gooey MaC & Quatro Queso 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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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

Chef Pooka is Kah-rayzee about PANCIT & for good reason-this tastee noodle dish- first introduced to the Philippines by the Chinese was quickly absorbed into the culture influenced by the strong Spanish presence comingled with indigenous culinary techniques leaves tastebuds saluting veggies sautéing cooked in a broth or braised noodles comingling with a succulent choice of inclusions as varied as the number of islands in the Philippines you too will be Kah-rayzee about this fun yummy dish made with LOVE for sharing! Eat Drink be Pookaberry!

Rice... is a bowl of Life...murmers Luz Azul one of Chef Pooka's Gurus..so it follows-when LIFE gets UGLY Chef Pooka's UGLY Rice Bowl is cosmically engineered to keep you sitting PRETTY happy satisfied sunny side up as the egg atop a generous mountainous mound of yellow rice surrounded by your choice of toppings including Chicken Adobo...Beef Tapas...Pork Tocino & MORE! gives you the gettup to go EAT Life before it EATS you! Ah! how Sweet soul soothing is the taste of serendipity! Eat Drink be Pookaberry!

Pooka's favorite! a juicy chicken quarter- thigh & leg seasoned with lemongrass cooked at a low-temperature for a good ole long-time aka Sous vide- français for "under vacuum" before getting grilled to perfection till the meat tumbles from the bone whilst your tastee buds quavering: "Eat Drink be Pookaberry!

during their infamous 333-year occupation of the Philippines the Spaniards bequeathed this iteration of beef stew originally hailing from Iberian Peninsula to the Philippines where it has been simmering ever since absorbing all of the local Pinoy flavor in the process - rarely has neocolonial cuisine been more beefy nor more sociologically appetizing...yummy as we all are the lump sum of our constituents are the ingredients of what makes a Filipino a diverse medley of local & invasive species makes this dish no less tasty quite the contrary while the past is in part bitter-how sweet time heals all wounds as good food sooths hungry souls Eat Drink be Pookaberry!

no stranger to the streets...child of the city...nursed on her magnificent glowing...owing to fate conned by circumstance does Chef Pooka refugee of Quezon city skewer pork blood intestines chicken feet pig ears & for the vegans veggie intestines presumably wrenched from a now disemboweled aubergine STREET SKEWERS are time tested tastebud therapy sure to cure gourmands from moribund doldrums of foodie mediocrity wielding skewer scimitars oscillate wildly whilst grabbing hold of fleeting life by the intestines--scream Eat Drink be Pookaberry!

Huey cousin to Chef Pooka's Sister's husband Coolie's cousin Louie was so smitten by Chef Pooka's chop SUEY Stir FRY he named his Aunt Gertie's brother's nephew's son in law Wilmer's cat "Chompers" in honor of the dish-when asked why Louie -mouth crammed full of chop SUEY Stir FRY posited he didn't need a reason before embarking on a diatribe about how much better the world would be if we stopped rationalizing leading those present to find it pleasing surmising abiding cocooned in the maelstrom of chaos comprising the soul of Louie caterpillar pupa cozy lay a revelation wherein meaning issues through a bleeding lack of reason aka chop SUEY Stir FRY a dish so delish one whiff bequeaths all foodies bon appetite Eat Drink be Pookaberry

Cuddled up with a bowl a Pooka's own Chicken Soup Tinola suddenly life seems less grey spoon yourself full of scintillating supernal rays of poulette giddy bliss kissed soothed by the epitome of Pinoy comfort food dance dizzier than you'd be had you guzzled a crate of Pouilly-Fuissé Eat Drink be Pookaberry!

Chef Pooka's deeliteful Pinoy BeEf StEaK served with potatoes veggies carmelized onion in a savory sauce! Sobrang Sarap! Eat Drink Be Pookaberry!

Chef Pooka's Guru Paluba Pandandarharsarharti's personal perennially puh-lasing philosophic introspective interlude of Beef Peanut Stew with Eggplant Beans Baby Bok Choy

served with Chef Pooka's famoso yellow rice this medley of beatific veggies bathed in the milk of coconut milk has been passed down to Chef Pooka from Asuras Devas forsooth? aye-do dive in so you too can savor this Pinoy Samudra Manthanaesque amarita elixir initiated by Indra King of Svarga who whispering to Hespestus his divine elephant was overheard by soothsayer Durvasa who wreathed in a special garland given to him by an apsara waxes rhapsodic singing: "Eat Drink be Pookaberry!"

Arroz cognomen Caldo na'er tasted sweet as Chef Pooka's Congee-to sip sum iz 2 sup on sublimity whilst taste buddies trill: "Eat Drink be Congee!"

Pooka's soooper savory BEEF Soup with Veggies! Sobrang Sobrang Sarap!

Pinakbet a la Chef Pooka is his Aunt Lualua's favorite pork stew of squash eggplant okra yard-long beans & bitter melon-it should be! it's her recipe! Eat Drink be Pookaberry!

Chef Pooka’s Aunt Lualu’s own yummy veggie coconut curry

Whilst Bysshe Shitake his Sous Chief strummed yon citharode Chef Pooka waxes rhapsodic odes to Henan Lumian Lormee-Fujianese Hokkien -predecessesque primogenic pater familias of LOMI LOMI Chef Pooka's savory thick soupy deelish Chicken egg noodle dish know to cause gastrognomes the world over to collectively launch into a laudatory outpour dwarfing the carbon outgassed from the Earth's deep interior core

ManGgO! ManGgO! ManGgO! yodeled Chef Pooka into his stew pot! appear! appear! behold! from the unquiet depths thencefrom was conjured a toothsome savory stew Sautee of aubergine garlic spinach shrimp or pork ManGgO j'adore whispered Chef Pooka in the small hours ere yon molten huevo named Helios doeth double tap SNOOZE on his supernal alarm snoring so loud Luna sings to the neonate dawn: ManGgO! come to me in waking dreams while Sol sleeps in an aureole of stellae! Eat Drink be Pookaberry!

From the inky depths of Abaddon sending ripples into the oblivion wreathed in an areole of onions caramelizing garlic ginger soya comes Chef Pooka astride a cephalopod colossal called SQUID Sizzle!

sure as Chef Pooka curries favor with subtle flavors he is in no hurry when it comes to Kari Curry slow cooking chicken to tender delish along with carrots capsicum potatoes in coconut milk till it trills: "come hither" one taste of Kari Manok will have you singing: Sobrang Sarap! Eat Drink be Pookaberry!

suffering from writers block Huseng Sisiw found himself craving for sustenance in desperation for something to fill him thinking if he just had the right treat he would be back up n running Sisiw tried Jolibee Shakey's Mang Inasal Chowking alas! all the food from those place did was make Sisiw loose his lunch leaving him even more esurient peckish evermore stuck in writers rut-with no where left to go in the dread throes of woebegone weltschmerz before him arose Pookaberry's POP up Pushpaka Vimana after Sisiw scarfed down some of Chef Pooka's signature Teriayaki Manok he wrote "Ah...! Sayang Na Sayang....Chicken teriyaki filipino style! Chō oishī ! ito ay nasa aking bibig!" in one sitting fueled by three additional servings scribbling in a now lost cover sheet: "Kumain Ng Inumin Maging Pookaberry!"

Chef Pooka's Great Aunt Lakasngloob's favorite! Chicken Livers smothered in caramelized onions enrobed in mushroom sauce! Gaano kasaya!

Pooka's own local neighborhood favorite mix of miki noodles stir fried with pepper carrot cabbage garlic scallions topped with crispy pork belly & boiled quail eggs

in his Ode to the pied of the poulet Chef Pooka drew from claw footed muses of yore be it Lilith Shekinah Lamashtu Melpomene even...if memory serves...Lesmosyne to produce a Chicken Feet Pastiche! Braised or Barbequed continues to enthuse persist so mighty is this dish deliciousness! Eat Drink be Pookaberry!

Pierogen reclining odalisque on a bed of gnocchi enrobed in savory mushroom sauce-Chef Pookas culinary ode to Pelagia Pasqualina an Italo-Polish lass...alas! one taste & you know the rest! oh...you don't?! well then...e'er since he was wee Chef Pooka's dreams were suffused with visons of shimmering supernal pierogi wreathed in gnocchi adrift awash in seasoning stratocumuli plying a savory cream sauce-why else pray would Chef Pooka's very first dish PEROGI GNOCCHI Potato Cheese Dreams of Bliss?! Eat Drink be Pookaberry! endnote: half afloat retried from a amphora buoy the MS read: " Of all the times Chef Pooka did piddle around the Pole the quintessential epiphanous moment came when he circumnavigate all known Voivodeships of the Land of Pole where in Wrocław Chef Pooka was awarded the Golden Wrocław Gnomes for his Pookaneese Varenykini Pierogi a timeless papaqueso concerto"

creamy porky bliss! tender pork with chilies slow cooked in coconut milk with shrimp paste onions tomato garlic & Pooka's secret spices-

Pork belly stewed in fresh tomatoes shrimp paste chili peppers eggplant served with rice because rice is life!

Pooka’s savory celebration of creamy aromatic umami arroz suffused with Olongapo Pugliese infusions of spices seasoning begets a risotto oh so Ilocano paisano it sings arias to your tastebuds in Tagalog! choose: pork-shrimp-chicken-veggie

sloe-cooked lentils suffused with tomato sauteed with mushroom onion spices served over Chef Pooka's umami garlic rice sobrang sarap!

Eight big yummy rolls of Golden Krispie Shrimp Tempura with cucumber avocado spicy mayo & teriyaki sauce

Eight umami ROlls of Golden Fried Shrimp Tempura with Avocado & Mayo

Eight merveilleux Rolls chockablock with crabstick avocado cucumber spicy mayo topped with MaSaGo!

Eight Scintillating Rolls endowed with Crabstick Avocado Cucumber Spicy Mayo

EiGhT Bountiful ROlls stuffed to bursting with mixed veggies cucumber carrots avocado

ears ringing "mun engi maðr ǫðrom þyrma"from sounding Gjallarhorneating three cocks named Fylliz Fiǫrvi Feigra crow for velveteen soothing noodle dreams sought by skalds the world over & below whilst Odin & Fenrir brimming with skildir vindǫld vargǫld beseech Sigfried to implore Chef Pooka to unleash Ramen Ragnarök in one fell swoop saving Odin Thor Týr Freyr Heimdall & Loki Götterdämmerung all sing: "Eat Drink be Pookaberry!"

Pooka's own Minamisanriku Soba Noodles in savory sweet soya broth served as is or for a real noodle shop street straight from a Minamisanriku side street choose to top it with SHRIMP or VEGGIE Tempura

"Eat Pasta the FUN Pookaberry way!" Croons Chef Pooka as he leads Penne Linguini Spaghetti Gnocchi in a PASTA PARADE featuring his own saucy orchestration of Marinara! A La Vodka! Fra Diavolo! & his Great Aunt Fanny's favorite Ginzaloon Red Gravy followed by your choice of toppings: CHICKEN...SHIRMP or SEAFOOD MIX! while the band plays EAT DRINK BE POOKABERRY!

you have a hunch with it's breaded chicken patty air fried to perfection with mozzarella cheddar cheese inside then covered in more melted cheesy goodness placed on a pandan bun slathered with Pooka's own chipotle mayo with lettuce & tomato Pooka's Symphony of Crispness Chicken Burger was born to bathe in the glow of it's own juicy crispy crunch if you seek what's made to be munched after treating yourself to Pooka's Symphony of Crispness Chicken Burger you will be happy you followed your hunch Eat Drink be Pookaberry!

Pooka's Veggie Sans Ham-Burger is so good it fools Vegetarians into a thinkin they're a cheatin Vegan! perish the thought... "oh jeeze!" they trumpet how something this carniviserous be meat free?" "don't ask me!" sayeth chef Pooka-"talk to the peas!"

Let loose your inner Moose! from Engine to Caboose Chef Pooka's BEEF CHIEF Burger is a beefy treat burger afficionados make tracks for! Toot! Toot! all aboard Chef Pooka's BEEF CHIEF express! next stop: EAT DRINK BE POOKABERRY!

"oh jeez" sayeth Wendel Weenie... one of Chef Pooka's compadres whilst masticating a crispy chewy loaf sliced lengthwise filled with bacon or perchance Pooka's Adore Amore Abode of Love Chicken Adobo & or Avocado till chubby prior to being pressed betwixt the glowing corrugated jaws of a pie iron..."what did you say?" probed Chef Pookie... "twasn't me!" tweeted the tube steak- "who then?" burned the query- before the bread could all knew the only one it could be was who else but... VENI VIDI PANINI! Eat Drink be Pookaberry!

Crème Chantilly a filly in Philly was sitting pretty low in the saddle passing the time waxing melancholy mind foggy with memories of on of Chef Pooka's CHEESE STEAKS she'd had back when she was a foal in Quezon City...pity-thought she-to be without this treat only adds to life's misery! me is woe! woe is me? whinnied Chantilly her sorry sweet as whipped sweetened cream-as she slipped into cognizance from dreaming she found herself still a foal in Quezon City nibbling a corner of the toasted hoagie bursting with shredded beefsteak grilled peppers mushroom swimming in a sea of melted provolone cheese Eat Drink be Pookaberry!

Had Gus the only living boneless Bangus known not abandoning ship was akin to jumping the shark he would have bowed gracefully out of negotiations with FLOATSAM the bloated undersea TV Network who were gunning to get Bangus to agree to continue starring in what would have been the four hundred eighty-nine million nine hundred twenty-seven thousand two hundred sixty-fourth season of his eponymous tele series entitled: "Sam Smelt's Merry Tsismis" after offering him so many small invertebrates phytoplankton & macroalgae Gus agreed...aghast at his own utter gutlessness absolute inability to stick a knife in an insipid contrived saccharine situation comedy long after it had ceased being funny

smoky roasted eggplant TOMATOES ONIONS tossed in vinegar and sautéed shrimp PASTE

If not spilling Tea sure as ten dimes buy a dollar Chef Pooka has dispensed with all euphemisms for tittle-tattling & has gotten down to some delicious undiluted gossiping fueled by popping crabsticks avocados masago cucumber in his piehole wellspring of every shred Chef Pookas ever TsIsMiS Merry as many after sampling this exquisite offering: "Eat Drink be Pookaberry!"

awash in a flurry of greens spinning mind mere water droplets sail up to Sol Invictus kissed with photosynthesis Chef Pooka reverts to plant form back when he was but a wee Pooka Nut beneath the abyssal plain down the droplets now rain this leafy bed so delicate tasty carnivorous ogres pause their orgiastic carnal flesh gorging to reconsider their dietary choices ere they drop another gob of gristle down their transom opting instead to nibble on Chef Pooka's sobrang sarap Salade rightly named Mesclun Mind Expansion

shredded chicken adobo tossed with greenery is- says your taste buddies: "vitality embodied paradisiacal foodstuff scenery!"

a VOX Wah born of swapping a transistorized solid state MRB circuit with a Jennings 3-position mid-range boost circuit switch spectral glided into Chef Pooka's Quinoa Quintessence a veritable Culinary Kosmos- preferred suprafirmament foodstuff of all Wah-wahs including Elwin whom Cream stomped on whilst waxing rhapsodes trilling tales of brave Ulysses

Pasta & veggies wreathed in veritas bring discerning diners to the inescapable conclusion when chef pooka fails to deprive pasta of it’s rightful place tastefully sequestered in this sublime collection of salade skits the only course is to toute suite eat it! bon appetite!

Nestled in mauve drapes of a waking dream Chef Pooka murmured: "Allo! ewes say musing how motley windsocks chock full of hollow overspill shaved ice snow whilst evaporated milk coconut cream combine with fruits to create bliss in a dish half eclipsing shadows pitfalls fissures deep as creased sheep born shorn of any qualms about eating dessert first blurt then screech... "do your worst! " seem to say their screams transmogrifying to a cry sharp as a stick in the eye of one hell of a storm... go fourth! were it their wont those dyed in the wool to the sanctorum of their collective cor cordium would go first-who knew? Allo! bleat aghast ewes who gasp at how were it halved their heart of hearts would be hollow were it not overflowing with Halo-halo..." waking gleaming with glee Chef Pooka beamed: Eat Drink be Pookaberry!

In the immemorial words of Chef Pooka's Great Aunt Petaluma who bequeathed her Flan recipe to him when she flittered off to join the Great Glory in the beauteous Barangay in the sky just before Chef Pooka opened his first cafe: "Flan & on till infinity trilling scintillation creamy caramel mouthfeel deliciousness leaves tastebuds enrobed in titanic mountainous stratocumulus beatific splendorous silken kisses trilling Eat Drink Be Pookaberry!"

botanically a berry what Chef Pooka does with this elongated edible fruit is a sight to behold-holding the plantain firmly to prevent it from flying back to the starry firmament whencefrom it sprang for safety is is enclothed in a rice wrapper with fresh jackfruit fried to perfection & drizzled in a sinfully delicious cream syrup caramel sauce served with vanilla or Pooka's own inimitable oh baby ube ice cream Pooka's Gimmie My Banana Turon is an incredible edible dream! Eat Drink be Pookaberry!

Pooka's Might-Tea Cakes are moist delicious bliss on their own or...if you like have them: A la Mode...Sizzling...or Rum Soaked! the possibilities are endless blissful delish! Eat Drink be Pookaberry!

Save room for Chef Pooka’s spin on Baba Au Rhum! starring...YOU savoring a yummy rum soaked cordial confection covered in syrupy whipped cream goodness leaving you in purrfect bliss! Magandang Gana!