Happy Lulu - Santa Mesa Heights

Loved their crispy shrimp, baby squid, pan fried squid, yang chow rice, beef brisket and sizzling oysters. A bit crowded tho. Affordable prices.

So far, so-so. It's been a pretty average experience. We ordered the bestsellers which included the Oyster Cake and the Grilled Liempo. We added the Yang chow Fried Rice as well. Service is quick. Our orders came out in less than 10 minutes and there was a decent amount of people around. Food is so-so. The liempo could have been good if it wasn't sliced so thinly. Yang Chow is pretty bad. I dunno how you could get that wrong but there weren't much toppings and not much taste either. I can't judge the oyster cake since I'm not a fan of the dish at all. Ambience sucks and the design could use a lot of improvements. Feels like I'm eating at home. There's private parking so that's a good thing but other than that, not sure what I'd go back for.

Arrived for lunch at 1pm on a Friday.  Parking was a breeze.  Only two other tables of customers were being served when we got there.  We ordered Grilled Squid, Halaan soup and the Sea Cucumber Tendon, plus rice.  The Sea Cucumber Tendon was a winner.  The Halaan soup was nothing special.  The Grilled squid was tasty but rather tough to chew.  It was a long leisurely lunch, with lots of waiting staff at hand.  We'd go back to try other items on the menu.

We dined at Happy Lulu earlier for lunch. It's located at Ubay St, a little farther from 13 Ubay if you're coming from NS Amoranto Avenue. It claims to be a Chinese - Filipino fusion restaurant but it felt more Chinese in my opinion. We arrived at around 11 AM and we were the only customers to be entertained. Happy Lulu seems to be a family owned restaurant since I saw what seemed to be like the father of the family and his daughter to be facilitating the rest of the crew. We ordered the sizzling squid, salt and pepper spareribs, grilled liempo, sweet and sour fish fillet, pancit canton, chopseuy, and their toyo fried chicken. We also ordered fruit shakes and bottomless iced teas to compliment our main dishes. We really enjoyed the food because the they were properly seasoned, they weren't too sweet nor too salty for our liking. We also got their chocnut filled turon for dessert, which everyone really liked! The service was okay, there were a lot of waiters... read more

Panfried squid is good but lam dynasty version Iis much better, the sizzling tofu is good, soy calamansi fried chicken was undercook and when returned back was over cooked :(, clam soup was also good, it's a homey version of Mann Hann as the place is quite hidden and use to be a residence. Overall is ok and this is my second visit.