Teriyaki Boy April 20, 2008

BF visited me here at home yesterday; it’s nice to be able to spend time with him here in the south, because I’m the one usually visiting him in Pasig. We went to the place where I had my aircon fixed and where I had my oil changed for the car because I was going to pay for it na - I can pay a little later since daddy knows the owner, hehe Anyway, the card swiping thing wasn’t available to BF and I just ate at Burger Machine. He had the Double Burger with the Chili Con Carne while I had the Cheesy Bacon Burger. We dropped by Ruins to look for a DVD to watch at home - we ended up buying My Big Love, haha! We also bought Sago’t Gulaman, yummy! We decided to buy a movie because my sister’s BF was at the house also so. When we got home we watched My Big Love right away. It was funny because Sam Milby really looked ridiculous and it was eye candy also when he got thin already. Plus the kilig moments in the movie helped too.

After the movie, BF and I were supposed to go to Laiya Grill along Aguirre Avenue but we wanted somewhere where we can just chill (I know pretty impossible on a Saturday night) so we decided to go to Bluewave (along Macapagal Blvd) instead. But it was quite crowded also so we ended up going to Harbor Square (beside CCP) instead. We just walked along the path by the bay (naks! HHWWPSSP! Haha, “holding hands while walking pa-sway sway pa! :P). We both love Japanese so it was a unanimous decision to eat at Teriyaki Boy.

I’ve always loved Japanese food. I’m generally not picky with food so if I want a quick Japanese fix I can eat at Tokyo Tokyo, Teriyaki Boy, Sumosam or any other Japanese fast food/resto out there but a good Japanese fix for me is eating at Saisaki. I haven’t really tried all good (& expensive) Japanese restaurants but I’m ok with Saisaki. Anyway, since we had Burger Machine earlier in the afternoon already I decided against ordering my usual of Katsudon. But BF still ordered his Gyu-Yakiniku Don, hehe Rice topped with beef egg. I ordered my usual Kakiage tempura nalang. Plus, an order of California Maki, haha, we couldn’t resist! After dinner, we just sat outside and had our nicotine fix then he drove me home na. Speaking of driving, I drove from the house to Macapagal and I insisted on this because the car that BF brought was their manual car and I wanted to practice again. We passed by Coastal road and guess what, na-traffic pa kame, haha, my left food literally went numb. It was all good, at least I can say that I can still drive a stick shift.

California Maki

Yummy Kakiage Tempura

TGIF April 9, 2008

love TGI Friday’s! BF loves it too & so does my family. We eat here during birthdays we also eat here just because. Whenever the budget permits, BF and I eat at Friday’s. We always order the Friday’s Three For All appetizer which has Mozzarella Sticks, Buffalo Wings, Loaded Potato Skins & sticks of celery you can dip in the sauces (pictured below) and their Caesar salad (with or without grilled chicken).

Anyway, I was going over my folders in my computer when I saw this photo of uber yummy baby back ribs BF and I had in Fridays. A friend of ours gave BF and I a complimentary receipt where we can avail a full slab of ribs absolutely free, no purchase necessary! *drool*

Here’s the mouth watering ribs we had:

Friday’s Caesar Salad:

Three For All Appetizer:

After a big and hearty meal BF and I try to save room for dessert. Take note the operative word here is try If ever we do succeed and still have space for dessert (which we seldom do) we always order their best seller (I would like to think) Mocha Mud Pie! Yummmmmy!

I can’t wait for our next TGIF meal!

Kopi Roti & Som’s Noodle House November 13, 2007

After G dropped M and I off at Kopi Roti there was this group of people who were shooting, a segment, I guess of some show that was featuring the place. Their famous for their coffee bun. They heat it before serving then it has butter inside that’s really yummy when you eat it - or so I’m told. I was still too full from Chelsea to try the Kopi Bun from Kopiroti so I just ordered their Home Made Iced Tea. It wasn’t the typical Nestea Iced Tea and it didn’t taste like ‘real’ tea (teabags dipped in water then placed ice in it). I won’t write anything more about Kopi Roti since I only got to taste their Iced Tea.

After BF picked me up, we picked up a friend’s girlfriend and went straight to Som’s Noodle House. Now, here I ate. I’ve heard great reviews about this little “resto” in Makati and I was so happy that I was able to try it out first hand. It’s a little hole in the wall (authentic) Thai resto - now I say authentic because the cook himself is Thai. I love Pad Thai and obviously, that’s what I ordered. We also ordered (Beef) Tom Yam soup, fried fish (sorry, I didn’t catch what kind it was), vegetables (Thai’s version of chop suey), rice (but I didn’t have any anymore), and garlic chicken - really good.ü I didn’t order the milk tea anymore because I’m not much into it in the first place so I wasn’t going to try that now. All in all, the food was great. And what’s really unique about this is there are tables along the road, you just under a tent. It’s originally a house that they converted to this mini-resto. People from everywhere go to this place just to eat their yummy dishes. Oh, you can also opt to eat inside but you have to pay an additional 10% because it’s air conditioned. But that’s nothing compared to the delicious food that you’ll be served. I’m definitely going back for their Pad Thai. And btw, it’s c-h-e-a-p — see for yourself.ü

Lunch at Serendra November 11, 2007

I was supposed to post something last night but I was too exhausted to wait for my sister to finish using the pc.

The original plan was to go up to Tagaytay after shift for some lunch and ukay ukay (like a bazaar/flea market). We have a tech coach at work (my batchmate) who lives in Tagaytay and she raved about this ukay ukay there. She said that with a thousand bucks (roughly about $20) you can have a whole sack of clothes.

I get off from work at around 6-6:30 then the other one at around 10am (M) then the other girl at around 8:30 (S), the fourth one at 12nn (G). I drank coffee first at Starbucks to try and wait for 8:30 but I got dizzy already so I went up to the parking lot and read my book in the car to wait for S. S lives in a condo near the office so when she got out we went there and watched Prison Break, haha or we tried to rather because she fell asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow. Before I turned off the TV, I went to the bathroom to pee and when I got out M knocked on the door already so I opened the door laid down and M parked herself on the pull out. She gets cold easily so after a while she put on her socks & jacket and slipped into bed with S and I. We were all huddled on the bed (good thing it was a big one, hehe ü)

After a while, the alarm went off already but G wasn’t messaging or calling us yet so we just slept. We even joked about it already that we might as well just have a slumber party instead of going out for food - by this time, Tagaytay was out of everyone’s mind already - we were all too exhausted from work to drive anywhere - plus, it was a Saturday, going up to Tagaytay on a Saturday is hell especially at around 1-2pm. We just decided to have lunch somewhere. I left my car with BF and he just went out to lunch with some of his teammates.

Us girls ended up having lunch at Chelsea Market Cafe in Serendra. Now, this didn’t come cheap. Or maybe because we ordered a LOT. Haha!ü We were hungry, you know.

For starters, they served free bread (it was focaccia, I think) with olives on it then there was rock salt on the side and a whole baked garlic on top - that was yummy, it didn’t taste like ‘garlic’, if you know what I mean, it was like it was mellowed down a bit.

Then we had Ceasar’s salad with Grilled Chicken & Crispy Bacon, it even had almonds in it. That was yummmmy. We also ordered Fried Mozzarella something but that was out of stock so we had Risotto Potato Balls with some cheese in it - talk about carbs! Haha ü For our main course, we ordered their Fresh Pasta maid daily with Tomato Pesto Cream sauce. It was really rich but it didn’t taste ‘heavy’. It had seafood (squid, mussel & shrimp) in it and big chunks of tomato - which is what I like. We also ordered Three Sausages (3 different kinds of huuge sausages) that came with a mound of mashed potatoes and saurkraut (which was good, by the way). And now for dessert, we had a ‘Smores cake! Yum! Flourless chocolate cake with graham crackers under & around it then marshmallow on top which they torch right before serving! It really tastes like ‘Smores with the burnt/smokey taste of the marshmallow on top.

We ended up shelling out P600 ($14.26/head) each times 4 that would amount to about P2,400 rough estimate is it came up to about $57. Not bad really, considering that the food really was delicious and there wasn’t actually a need to order something for each because the serving sizes were really meant for sharing, I think.

After lunch, we really needed to walk out all the stuff we ate. So we just went around Serendra and went inside these little boutiques that was selling really unique stuff. Then we went to Market! Market! because M wanted to buy grapes. G ended up buying 2 pieces of pears.

We still went around a bit but S and G still had overtime so we already headed home. M and I had G drop us off at KopiRoti (a whole new post on this) and waited for BF to pick me up.ü

*Photos I got from this site.

Weekend update March 27, 2007

Friday night - didn’t go to work.

• Bona Coffee
• a very “musical” conversation with a dear friend
• Sinangag Express (aka SEx)
• 168 Station

Saturday - picked up S.O. from work then ate lunch at Metrowalk in Brazil Brazil (Brazilian Restaurant, uhm obviously). We had buffet which was good but if you’re going to eat here I suggest that you don’t pig out on the buffet food themselves; just get the grilled pork roast, beef, liempo, etc because it’ll really make you full. Overall the food was great, not so happy with the dessert though. They just had this dry cake with icing that doesn’t taste like a cake and there’s a fruit merengue (more like a mango merengue) it was so-so; but good thing they had a Buco Fruit Salad - that was alright. Bought DVDs after lunch, we got Stranger than Fiction (Will Farrell), Lovewrecked (Amanda Bines), National Lampoon’s Spring Break (I have no idea who the actors were because it came out like a documentary of the spring break - it showed boobs though. My boyfriend commented that he should’ve just watched porn; which was better coz that showed you more), and Charlotte’s Web. When we got to their house we watched Lovewrecked - it was a nice, light, funny movie; nothing wow. Then we had siesta. Woke up around 9:30pm took a bath then went to a good friend’s birthday party. Steady night, had dinner and drank. They guys had beer, I had red wine. Went to Metrowalk after to meet up with another set of friends (who were drinking since 7:30pm); we got there around 3:30 in the morning already. After that we went to Jay-J’s to meet up with office friends and stayed there till around 7:30am — haha, in praise of the sun again.

 

Sunday - slept the whole day; well I should, I got home around 8:30am already. Woke up around 6pm and was supposed to hear mass at 6:30p but I took a bath at 6:30 already, oops! So my sister and I just had dinner at Charbroiled Burgers and heard mass at 8pm in Phase 1. There was a flying ipis! Ack! I know a certain someone who’ll freak out if he reads this! Haha! =P