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SoOohper Meals from Green Mango

Among the things I like about Green Mango is that constant innovation of its menu. From new items to new combo meals, the Filipino fast food restaurant is always on the go. Just like last Friday, the restaurant invited us for another food tasting session of their latest combo items – GM SoOOHper Meals. From the name alone you’d know you’re in for a super treat – big in taste but light on the wallet.It’s like a mix and match combo or I’d say a choose your own combo meal. From three carbohydrates-based items, one gets to pair them with three proteins. So it’s a choice between yummy spaghetti, award winning canton guisado and flavourful pancit palabok. More choices come next as one gets to pair it with delectable chicken barbecue, perfectly fried chicken and mouth watering fried pork chop.As this was a food taste session, all these combos were presented to us and we just choose what our stomach’s grumble that time and mine said “pancit palabok with fried pork chop”. I haven’t tried the pancit palabok so that was an easy choice and the fried pork chop – the lure of the golden brown crispness of the pock chop was too hard to resist!Though it was an unlikely combination, I quite enjoyed it the combo that also came with drink and gravy (all you want). I had finished my pancit palabok but barely halfway with my pork chop so ordering a cup of rice was inevitable -lol.

It was indeed a super Friday with Green Mango’s newest offering – GM SoOohper Meals and I’d surely be back for more. This time to review and taste test it as a regular paying customer to check the consistency in the serving size, the taste, the service and in a different branch, and hopefully with a new combo (the combo I had that time still begs for more-lol).

GM SoOOHper Meals costs PhP 80 each and are available in all Green Mango branches in Iloilo City.

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