Ayuyang Bar and Feliz Restaurant: 3 Snouts

Ayuyang Bar and Feliz Restaurant, 26 Governor Pack Road, Baguio City.

3 Snouts! (Photos by: FP and PP)

Most commonly enjoyed with wonderful live music and beers on cold nights, Ayuyang Bar and Feliz Restaurant possess a wonderful daytime secret. It was a meeting there that led to the discovery of their lechon rice and of course we could not let their version escape the attention of our triumvirate.

Ayuyang is located at the bottom of Baden Powel Inn, right next to the old bus station on Governor Pack Road. A flight of stairs beside the entrance of the inn will lead you down toward the garden and to the restaurant’s entrance. The first thing you see upon entering the restaurant is a fish tank and beyond that the kitchen. (Ornamental fish. Not edible.) As you move further in you’ll find yourself beside the bar and facing the two dining areas. It’s nice to sit by the windows looking out toward Burnham Park. The place is very quiet during the daytime and is a great place to spend the afternoon. Now let’s get started on the food.

Fritson inspects the menu (Photo by: PP)

The price range is from 115-78PHP for rice meals. We originally planned to order our usual but we got so excited at the sight of Binagoongang Baboy (pork cooked with okra, sitaw, eggplant and bagoong -- a fermented fish sauce, in case you didn't know) that we almost forgot that we were there for lechon rice. Fortunately, our friend Shanti came along and willingly ordered a lechon rice. The lechon rice was 95PHP and the binagoongang baboy was 85PHP.

Fritson luuuuvs the heavenly iced tea. (Photo by: FP)

While waiting for our meals we sipped at the delicious Iced Tea (P55). The condiments of soy, calamansi and chilies were automatically set on the table but in our hunger we forgot to fix that up and just gobbled up our meal with out the usual condiments.

Making sure the right condiments are served. (Photo by: PP)

Both the lechon rice and the binagoongang baboy arrived sizzling on a hot plate and the rice was served on a separate plate. We immediately tucked into our meal and discussed the quality of Ayuyang Bar and Feliz Restaurant’s lechon rice and binagoongang baboy.

Binagoongang Baboy (Photo by FP)

We’ll leave the Binagoongang Baboy for another review. This is just a teaser. (Any excuse to go back and have it again!) But it was very delicious!

Fritson levitates as he checks on the quality of the pork. (Photo by PP)

Ayuyang’s version of lechon rice is interesting because it’s different from most lechon rice around Baguio. Aside from the presentation, the dish contains red bell peppers, carrots, Baguio beans, petchay and cabbage with 5 big pieces of lechon soaking in a sweet lechon sauce. The lechon was crunchy but some parts were a tad overcooked making them difficult to chew. The service was a bit slow but it was well worth the wait!

YUM! (Photo by: FP)

Over all we award Ayuyang Bar and Feliz Restaurant with 3 snouts! (Oh no, we're not biased by the restaurant's name AT ALL!) Total bill was 430PHP for 3 starving people. We say the prices are very reasonable for what we got. Extra rice costs 22PHP, garlic rice is 25PHP. They also had a few special preparations of rice for slightly higher prices. Beer is 40PHP for a Pale Pilsen and 50PHP for a Red Horse. Brewed coffee checks in at 25PHP. Sweet sweek, sweek! Signing out until the next blog!

Fritson with piglet sis Freeta (Photo by PP, styling by FP)