It is still the best way to beat pandemic blues

It is hard to imagine that it has been a month since we gathered together, explored the outside world, even experienced the humble luxury of eating out during the holidays. What’s even harder to imagine is how fast it took for us to be drawn back to our pandemic reality. It didn’t even let the first week of January 2022 end to bring us out of our fantasy.

Now, the aftermath of our December merry-makings includes a call for booster shots, fear of Omicron, the divide caused by vaccine cards, and again being stuck at home. While the start of 2022 is pretty much like a relaxed version of our mid-2020, it is hard to fight the blues that come with canceled plans, staying indoors, and being apart again. But life in isolation need not be the worst or dull—this is coming from a person who had a list of plans to do this month (my birth month). So picking up from the joy of the holidays, the best way to kick the pandemic on its bum is celebrating life through good food savored at the safety of our home.

There are a lot of meals to discover for your at-home feast, but the best are the ones that can be customized to your liking. That is how Filipino food chain Max’s Restaurant kicks off 2022 with its My Way solo meals. As its name implies, customers can feast on delectable Filipino cuisines and mix-and-match them with classic and new side dishes.

One can choose from a variety of solo meals, from its classic fried chicken (P239 for one-piece and P269 for the quarter size chicken) to its giant chicken meatball and chicken chorizo (both P199), with its signature caramel bar on the side. Our favorite, if you’re looking to change things up, is the chicken chorizo that is drizzled with rich sisig sauce. It comes with a serving of Java rice, tamarind chicken skin, and a sunny-side-up egg.

The best way to eat them is to have tasty sides (P69), and there is a myriad of them. There’s the classic tofu sisig, corn sisig, mushroom salpicao, pancit canton, fried or fresh ubod, coleslaw, and more, bringing and added flavor and freshness to the richness of the solo meal. Bring your at-home feast to a full circle with a serving good beverage (P59) like soda and iced tea or go all out Filipino style with its sago’t gulaman.

A bonus treat is its Double Up Deal on solo meals happening from Jan. 28 to Feb. 1, where you can also add one or two side dishes to the different solo meals like Bangus Rice Bowl, Chicken Sisig Rice Bowl, Tofu Rice Bowl, and Shanghai Rice Bowl, apart for the abovementioned.

Max’s new My Way solo meals are available for dine-in, delivery, and take-out in all stores nationwide, while the Double Up Deal is exclusively for take-out or delivery. You can order online at delivery.maxschicken.com.

Choose wisely, though, you can never go wrong with any of these choices.

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