Bahay Kubo

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• Mixed heritage on song

  Helen Greenwood, reviewer

  Friday, October 03, 2008

  A Filipino karaoke restaurant. Can anyone resist?

  Well, not our intrepid trio. So, on a Sunday night, we tumble into the street beside Lidcombe's vast railway station, which is lit up like the Queen Elizabeth 2 docking at Woolloomooloo wharf. We stroll past the Italian Monuments company and stop dead in our tracks at the sight of polished granite tombstones, lined up like mattresses in a bedding store. That's when we hear Bahay Kubo, even before we see it or smell it and, compelled by the karaoke, we make a beeline for the plain, glass-fronted restaurant. A man, whom we assume is the owner, throws open the door and his arms wide, urging us to come in. He shows us to a table, then joins a large party of people on a long table topped with platters of prawns, rice and marrow bones. Confused? You betcha. Meanwhile, a middle-aged woman belts out broken notes at high volume of the karaoke cliche, I Will Survive, as children scuttle around the table and dive among the legs of two women doing a ballroom jitterbug. We feel as if...

  Source: Sydney Morning Herald

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