The Sun Rises in Sunrise Buckets

I am not a really good writer in terms of describing the how or the what of something. But I really love to eat good food, travel to really nice places, meet new exciting people and experience all the fun there is. So let me share with you an experience born out of impulse. We were about to go home from a good day's worth of duty from the Medical City - Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Occupational Therapy Section), when we decided that we're all too hungry to just go home. So we decided to try out Sunrise Buckets at Madison Square just past Greenhills coming from EDSA. With just one bus ride away, we arrived in time before the place became jam-packed with people at around dinner time, i.e. 7 pm. Of course no food blogger (in this case, me) would have started the kainan review without having a few snapshots of the good ol' place, so voila...

Our group first found ourselves a table and settled down. Since one of us already knew what to order, we didn't have to decide long before we ordered and let out money from our own small banks we call wallet. I was the one to place the order, which consisted of 2 pounds of original recipe buffalo chicken wings/tenders. We kind of split the total amount into 4. So we all had to pay our respective amounts before I got to order since in SB, you have to pay first before you get stuffed. They have a good number of different house specialty and recommended picks available on the menu. They even have recipes mixed with whiskey, etc. But since it was our first blood on the place, we decided to order the original recipe. A major plus point for SB is that everyday of the week they get to have a different gimmick, like for example, on Thursdays you can get a free pitcher of iced tea or a bucket of beer of your own choice with each pound of chicken wings/tenders, or on Wednesdays they have a 30% off promo. So since that day was a Thursday, we decided to choose a pitcher of iced tea and decided against the bucket of beer since we still have to wake up really early for tomorrow's last duty day of the week. While waiting for the order, we took some shots of the place. To summarize, the venue is a good petite place with an ambiance emitting that of a Western beach-side bar and grill resto. The walls are decorated with different beach items such as vests, surf boards, vintage beach-style photos and graffiti, and a wall of chalkboard where you can get to write your sentiments/comments regards SB.

They also have a small smoking area with tables outside. The background music included hit songs of the 90's with matching LCD TV on one side of the place on which I can only imagine NBA games or other sports being played because during our stay there, it was only showing random ridiculously beautiful beach-related scenes.

Anyways, when the food arrived, I was kind of actually expecting bigger chicken wings/tenders. But nonetheless, when I tasted my first blood chicken wing, my taste buds became like hyposensitive taste receptors shouting for more stimuli so that they are satiated. It was the best-tasting buffalo wings I've ever tasted... so far. It has an earthy taste in it, not too spicy and not too flavory.

The dip was really good too. But I'm not really a 'dip' kind of person, so I was okay with or without the dip. Two more cute things about this resto include having this gimmick of letting the customers dig into the bucket literally either using utensils or like really digging into it using your hands with or without a pair of disposable gloves. They also have this bone collector, which is a bin where you can get to put all of the chicken bones after you're done with them. It's just so nice seeing them perfectly skinned-to-the-bone bones after finishing the whole bucket.

One downside was that they offer really expensive order of rice for like 40 pesos. But on the plus side, you can still get to enjoy the wings even without rice, but since I'm really a food lover, I had to have a taste of those scrumptious wings with a spoonful of rice, and boy was it worth all those pesos. All in all, it was a really nice place for 2 kinds of people: one who's hungry for really good food while the other just wanna have fun and some booze with friends in a vibrant beach-style atmosphere. Whether or not you're one or both, I promise you'll never regret a dining experience at SB where the sun rises, metaphorically speaking, with each bite of those wings. Til the next kainan review! :)

- Keso