Their goodies bring all the boys to The Yard...

It's been a long time plan of D' Frendz to check out The Yard in Xavierville.

When Bonique read about this food park and the different goodies they serve, she was naturally curious and wanted to check the place out.

Initially, we wanted to go there on a Friday night for a few drinks, but adulthood prevented us from doing that a couple of times.

Today, we thought we'd give the place a shot. And we did!

I must say, The Yard is extremely popular. It opens at 4:00pm, we got there by around 4:30pm and it was already packed to the rafters. Good thing Mark was carrying a couple of bags and we used that to stake our claim on the tables. (One of which a group of girls tried to usurp. To no avail, of course.)

The group's first impression - the place was young. It was crawling with "hipsters" who spoke 3 decibels higher and insisted on taking photos of everything. Sheesh! Millennials!

Suddenly, it felt like we were a band of Titos and Titas of Manila, looking after kids. It didn't help that we actually had small kids in tow, which contributed to our Tito-hood. At one point, the little girls were dancing to the rave music being played, and they told me that they were "providing entertainment" for the night.

Luckily, as the evening progressed, there were more people within our age bracket, and higher. That was a small consolation, the fact that there were now Lolos and Lolas of Manila. At least, we weren't the oldest people in The Yard.

But we weren't there for the ambience, nor the crowd, nor the rave music. We were there for the food. And boy, The Yard has a lot of good food.

Becca loved the Spam Musubi, Mona and Lezyl loved the dynamite sticks, Mark and I enjoyed the onion rings, nachos and the mocktail in a pail. And everyone loved the yakitori and HKG street food.

And the kids, they loved the dessert! Particularly the nitrogen-freezed ice cream.

They even announced the arrival of their chocolate and strawberry ice cream, and the "trick" that came with it.

You can never go wrong with ice cream, as Becca, Audrey and Aidan proved.

Too bad we were already full by the time 7:00pm rolled in. We still wanted to try a lot of the dishes being sold - like the chicken and biscuits, fish and chips and the sandwiches. Alas, the spirit was willing, but the stomach was stretched to capacity.

Well, at least it's an excuse to go back to The Yard again one of these days.