Yoghurt Shake (Sweet) P95.  This is not the usual yoghurt shake I get whenever I’m in a Persian restaurant.  The sour-y taste was just right.  Think of this way, it was milder than the froyo we now have.  It was not “nakaka-umay” but instead, you’ll want to have it all in one sip.

Salad-e-Oloviyeh (P155). Potato puree mixed with chicken strips, green peas, cucumber pickles and mayonnaise.

This is their version of potato salad.  No different from ours except for the garnishing on top which I ate.  It was cured.

Mirza Ghasemi (P155+). Grilled eggplant, sauteed onion and garlic with Persian spices, served in homemade tomato sauce.

Great with the pita bread or rice.  The sweetness of the onion was all over the spread.

Persian Square Salad (P165). Crisp Romaine lettuce, cucumber, tomato, corn, carrot, bell pepper, Kalamat olives, and croutons, topped with the chef’s secret dressing.

Chelo Joojeh Kabab (P375+). A skewer of charbroiled chicken thighs and breast marinated in saffron, onion and lime juice. Served with Basmati rice, topped with saffron, butter and two grilled tomatoes.

It was nice to have a juicy chicken meat that we can enjoy even AD was able to eat the meat.  One sign that the meat was not hard and very dry.  AD liked the rice with the butter.  What he does is dip his spoon into the butter and eat it with rice.  Yikes!  I’d like him to avoid eating like that but he always insist on it.  That’s why, as much as I can, I do not buy butter so he won’t have it so much.

We peeled off the skin and sliced the grilled tomato then poured garlic sauce on it.  Very good with the rice too!

Chelo Kabab Koobideh (P295). Two skewers of juicy strips of charbroiled seasoned ground beef mixed with onion and persian spices, (25 cm each). Served with Basmati rice, topped with saffron, butter and two grilled tomatoes.

I always tell HB to order the longganiza type of kabab whenever we got to these kind of restaurant.  I do not know why but I have this thing with longganiza.  But I prefer it to be sweet side and not too spicy (like Vigan’s).  This beef kabab was also juicy but somehow, I keep on looking for the ooomph taste that in the end, the kabab was already gone and I was still trying to figure out its taste.  But I’d love to try it once again! 

Ghormeh Sabzi (P265+). Cubed beef cooked in finely chopped onion, red beans, leek, scallion, chives, herbs and sun dried lime.

Oh no!  This was soooo wrong!  HB gave me a portion on top of my rice and yiew!  Sayang yung rice! (The rice went to waste!)  It reminded me one of those chinese preservative fruits that I usually eat but in sour taste form!  What was worse was I bit on the sun dried lime thinking it was the beef!  After that, I ushed aside the portion where Sabzi was placed on my plate.  Never again, did I get another serving of it even if I feel that it would go to waste!

I felt bad when I told Reza about it because it is one of his favorite dish!  Oh my!  But then, to each its own!  I just can’t take eat any Sabzi anymore but definitely, I’d like to go back and try some of the dishes we haven’t tasted.

No dessert this time.

Caspean Persian Square Restaurant
Unit 101 Bldg B. Ortigas Home Depot (near Starbucks)
Julia Vargas Avenue, Ugong, Pasig City
Call Reza +63916 392-2143

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