CYMA yet again

CYMA has become synonymous with Edsa Shangrila for us, if we are lucky enough to get a table, that is. The waiters there are friendly, and there's one who was particularly welcoming yesterday. I guess because he has seen us often enough. My son ordered an appetizer, a cheese dip with pita bread. A bit on the spicy side because floating on it is a huge green pepper. My husband threatened to crush it to make it even spicier, but luckily, he was kidding. Husband ordered gindara, very simply cooked so it tasted clean -- i think in olive oil and just a few other spices. It was served in a small platter and was rather pricey at P450. But healthy, I suppose because that was olive oil it was cooked in. My son ordered chicken kebab. The order came with two sticks of chicken cubes interspersed with vegetables, a few pieces of pita bread and a cheese-garlic-yogurt dip. That order was a steal at P280 but since he added a side order of roasted potatoes, the total came up to P360. I, on the other hand, ordered the pork chop which I did before. Two 3/4-inch pork chops came with two slices of roasted potatoes and one rice-stuffed green bell pepper. The rice was orange (cooked in tomato) and had raisins in it. Very tasty. we'd have ordered the dessert skolatina which was recommended on a previous visit but the waiter said we'd have to wait 30 minutes. Skolatina is molten chocolate cake but they serve it with vanilla ice cream and caramel sauce. P230 per order but we have yet to try it. We just might next time, if we order it early enough.

As usual, the place was packed and we had to wait a bit before we were led to our table. The wait was well worth it, as expected. I lifted the photo of CYMA from www.unlawyer.net/wp-content/photos/cyma_greek...