Author: Rochelle Sy Chua

Roch’s List of Food Reviews

Posted by Rochelle Sy Chua On August 22, 2009

I’ve blogged about a lot of restaurants in HeaRty’s Haven. It’s time for me to create a list of those that I have reviewed for easy reference 🙂

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I love to eat and as much as possible, I would love to try out all the restaurants out there. It’s just nice to experience all of them.

Here is the list of places I’ve dined to with link to the review I made in this site:

Buffet Breakfast at Seven Corners
Canton Soup Kitchen
Spaghetti Factory
Better Than Buffet at Red Kimono
Zing Juice – A Waste of Money
Top of the Citi by Le Souffle
Lutong Macau
Greenwich
Breakfast at Granvia Cafe
Palamis Resto Grill
The Tea Republic
Fish & Co.
UCC Terrace
Recipes by Cafe Metro
Oody’s Bar & Restaurant
Mandarin Wok
Colasa’s Bar-B-Que
Grilled Tomato
Cafe Sweet Inspirations
Five Cows Resto & Ice Cream Bar
Nach-O-Fast
Grams Diner
Hai Chinese Restaurant & Bar
Chili’s Bar & Grill
Italianni’s
Bannaple Pies & Cheesecakes
Coral Garden
Dezaato Pan
Yellow Chicken Inasal Food House
Flavours of China
Zao Vietnamese Cafe
Suzhou Dimsum
Pho Hoa Vietnamese Noodle House
Gerry’s Grill
Max’s Restaurant
Kohikan
Sea Palace
Binalot
The Noodle House – Hong Kong Fried Noodles
Pancake House
World Class Persian Kebab
Cyma Greek Taverna
Razon’s of Guagua
Abe
Cafe Ysabel
Bubble Tea
Luk Foo Cantonese Kitchen
Artina Gallery Cafe
Shanghai Hand-Pulled Noodles
Sugarhouse
Blackbeard Seafood Island
Mey Lin
Icebergs
JT’s Manukan Grille
Hossein’s Persian Kebab
Old Chinatown Kopitiam
Red Crab Seafood & Steaks
Wheatberry Bakery & Cafe
Cheesecake, Etc.
The Sizzlin’ Pepper Steak
Steak MD
Teriyaki Boy

Breakfast Buffet at Seven Corners

Posted by Rochelle Sy Chua On August 22, 2009

Seven Corners

3rd Level Crowne Plaza Galleria Manila, Ortigas Avenue corner ADB Avenue, Quezon City

(02) 633-7220

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My friend told me that the breakfast buffet at Crowne Plaza is to die for. So I was a bit excited to have breakfast there. I called up the reception & asked which floor do I go to for breakfast and I was informed that it’s located at the 3F, the name of the restaurant is seven corners.

The room rate already includes buffet breakfast for 2 but if you’re just going there for breakfast. The rate is Php 928 nett per person 🙂

Man, the buffet is just awesome! It has everything you can think of.

Let me divide it in sections:

Drinks – As soon as you are seated, the server would ask you coffee or tea. Aside from that, there’s a variety of choices in the buffet. Includes juices like orange, grape, watermelon, mango. There’s also low fat milk, fresh milk & water with lemon available.
Fruits in Syrup, Yoghurt
Cereals
Salad & Fruits
Breads – Wheat, White, White Loaf Slice, Brown Loaf Slice w/ choices of Peach Jam, Peanut Butter, Strawberry, Butter, Margarine.
Cold Cuts
French Toast, Pancake, Waffles with choice of syrup: honey, maple
Filipino Breakfast Dishes like Beef Tapa, Pork Tocino, Chicken
Broccoli, Hash Browns, Bacon
Sausages – Pork & Chicken
Fried Noodles, Congee
Noodle Soup, Dimsum (dumplings, siomai, siopao)
Miso Soup
Eggs – cooked whichever you want (sunny side up, scrambled, omelette)
Vegetables, pork & beans
Rice – garlic & steamed

People say pictures are worth a thousand words, let me show you some pictures from the buffet.

Definitely a great eating experience. a Pig out! 😀

Crowne Plaza Galleria Manila

Posted by Rochelle Sy Chua On August 22, 2009

Picture from CrownePlaza.com

Crowne Plaza Galleria Manila
Ortigas Avenue corner Asian Development Bank Avenue, Quezon City, Philippines 1100
(02) 633-7222

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I wanted to relax and have a worry-free & stress-free weekend, that’s why I decided to spend one night at the new Crowne Plaza Galleria Manila.

I booked for the Deluxe Room but when I arrived at the hotel, they informed me that they upgraded my room to Executive Suite (without additional charge!!! :D). It was a 3-level upgrade (since there’s still grand deluxe & premiere rooms after deluxe). I was pretty ecstatic and felt that I would definitely have a great time staying.

Here are the rates so you can see the different room types:

Deluxe Room – Php 7,187.50
Grand Deluxe Room – Php 8,062.50
Premier Room – Php 8,437.50
Executive Suite – Php 10,937.50
Premiere Suite – Php 12,812.50
Grand Club Suite – Php 12,812.50
Crowne Suite – Php 18,437.50

I was in total awe when I entered a room, I suddenly felt that I should have invited a female friend to stay with me so someone else can also experience it 🙂

Let me show you the room by dividing it into 3 parts:

The Living Room – full-length mirror, trouser presser, work table, television, refrigerator, sofa table.

The Bedroom – bed, television, sofa, dresser, bathrobe, safety deposit box, flashlight, alarm clock.

The Washroom – I don’t know what to say… This is just the best washroom I’ve ever been! Coolness to the highest level. I ended up staying in the bath tub for hours! The washroom is actually divided into 2.

The 1st one is the one connected at the bedroom with bathtub, beauty area, shower room, toilet bowl.

The 2nd one is connected to the living room with beauty area & toilet bowl.

Ofcourse, the rate include buffet breakfast for 2 at the 7 corners restaurant. A charge of Php 1,875 will be imposed for extra person exceeding 2.

I was also able to walk around the hotel and found the ff. establishments:

Seven Corners
Xin Tian Di
Suriya Spa
Gold’s Gym
Kids Play Area
Ballrooms
Fab Restaurant
Bar One
Toyz
Swimming Pool
Agenda

Service is very good as well. A warning though, if you’re going to order for delivery, you will need to go down the lobby and drop by the employee area to get your orders which is a bit inconvenient in my honest opinion. Everything else is superb!

I definitely recommend this hotel to everyone 🙂

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How to Block People on Your IMs & Social Networking Sites

Posted by Rochelle Sy Chua On August 22, 2009

Sometimes we meet people who are either scary or annoying, we would want them to stop stalking us or have any relations with us. Since most of us have instant messengers & social networking sites, there is a way for us not to receive any messages from them and also a way for us to prevent them from seeing our profile at the sites.

The people that we usually want to ignore or block are the ff.:

Stalkers
Con Artists
Criminals
Psycho People

So here are the instructions on how to block people:

img_3240_yahoo_messenger_5f32a44b Yahoo Messenger – Go to preferences -> Privacy -> choose Ignore list -> add the yahoo id of the person you want to block.

MSN_Messenger MSN Messenger – Go to tools -> options -> Privacy -> add people you want to block.

aim_logo AIM – Click on the buddy you want to block -> click on buddies on the pull down menu -> select block (buddy’s name) -> click on block

images Google Talk – find the name of the person on your contact list -> click on it and a new profile tab will open -> click the “block” button.

images-1 Skype – right-click name of the contact you want to block -> click Block This User

images Facebook – Go to My Privacy Page -> put the person’s name in the block people box -> click search -> choose the person you want to block -> click Block Person

images Friendster – Go to the person’s profile -> click block

Multiply – Go to the user’s homepage -> click block user on the right side of the page

images Twitter – Go to the user’s twitter page -> click block

images Plurk – Go to the user’s plurk page -> click block user

Hope this helps 🙂

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Canton Soup Kitchen

Posted by Rochelle Sy Chua On August 21, 2009

Canton Soup Kitchen

Unit-C 847 Banawe corner Linao Street, Quezon City

(02) 743-5249

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While waiting for tune up & change oil to finish, Ankol & I had lunch at this new place in Banawe, Canton Soup Kitchen.

I initially thought that it’s just a small eating place but after seeing the menu, it’s a pretty decent restaurant after all. I would suggest they get a bigger place. Coz the food is really good! I plan to try out their other dishes some other time.

Here are what we ordered:

Garlic Burst Spareribs (Php 185)

Best spareribs I ever tasted. I think this is slightly better than the spareribs in Mann Yann (one of my fav restaurant). Not oily, very tasty 🙂

Steamed Fish Fillet w/ Japanese Tofu (Php 220)

This one is also yummy!!! The spices just fits together. Fish tasted fresh, tofu is just yummy! perfect sauce.

Fresh Pear w/ Lemon Blend (Php 65)

This one I didn’t like. I guess that’s why restaurants don’t server Pear juice. I do think the restaurant just wanted to be unique but I think pears are meant to be eaten only. It just tasted like lemonade.

Aside from the food, the restaurant is also well-designed 🙂 Very chinese-themed, even the music is chinese (remember Ting Le Kun?).