When I was on my first trimester, I was craving for food from back home. I wanted green mangoes and bagoong, Polly’s chocolate cake, Cuerva Mango Torte, tuyo with steaming hot rice, my mom’s adobo with a siding of her homemade coleslaw, sizzling steak from Pepper Lunch and Jollibee spaghetti.

While there are Jollibees in the West Coast to satisfy my craving, I was miles and miles away here in the East Coast, so no such luck for me. So when Jollibee finally came a couple of months later in New York, just last month in fact, the first thing I asked friends who have gone to Jollibee was - Is the Jollibee spaghetti here the same as back home?

I just had to know. Because while my cravings had waned, hey, I still miss the taste of Jollibee! So when our Radar editor Cecile Van Straten asked me and my friend/fellow Radar writer Sarj to write about the first Jollibee in the East Coast, we got all giddy with excitement! Never mind that it was raining that day we were scheduled to visit, and that we had to travel all the way to Queens to get there!

So in the interest of “research”, this is what I ordered…Spaghetti and Chicken Joy meal, Yumburger with cheese, fries, Peach Mango Pie and a regular soda (I know, I can’t resist! a Jollibee meal has to be paired with soda!) Sarj had a similar “set” menu. We had to try everything (well almost everything) to come out with an objective review right?

Yes, I ate all of that on that tray all by myself! If you think that’s shocking, just imagine, I paid almost $15 for this meal! That’s almost Php750! Kind of insane, I know! Haha!

Almost everything was true to the taste of Jollibee, except the spaghetti looked and tasted bland (well, not as sweet as what I’ve had back home!)

There’s one thing I realized about Jollibee, never mind if my mom tells us not to eat there because she says fast food is junk food, and my husband thinks it’s not “real food”.

You don’t know what you got till it’s gone!

So to my fellow Pinoys back home, enjoy and savor your Jollibee meal. You got it good! Taste, location and price wise!

Oh, and this Sunday, watch out for our Jollibee New York story On The Radar ok?

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