Category: Food

Kopi Tiam

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Kopi Tiam
Benitez Horseshoe Village, Quezon City
(02) 723-5674

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When my friend told me that we’re going to eat at Kopi Tiam, I thought it was Old Chinatown Kopitiam, apparently not hehhe 😛  It’s a different place, owned by the same owners of North Park.

I loved it!  The food is yummy, delicious!  It’s affordable too.  There are lots of parking spaces as well.

The restaurant is good for lunch, dinner and also merienda as they have chinese breads, pastries available and also nice desserts!

Here are what we ordered:

  • Fresh Honey Lemonade (Php 78)
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Same old lemonade but used honey as sugar… I think I like normal sugar better.  Ofcourse, this still tasted good as it’s not powdered, it’s fresh. 🙂

  • Snowy Mais Queso Con Yelo (Php 86)
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Normal Mais con yelo w/ a twist… sprinkled with cheese.  Just like how we serve spaghetti, we put a lot of cheese on top.  So this made it different.

  • Storm (Php 108)
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Kopi Tiam called this dessert its favorite.  They even put “It’s a must”.  So I can see all the people on the other tables ordering it too.  I didn’t order it as I have chosen mais con yelo as my dessert.  My friend said that it’s good.  So I guess I’ll try it the next time I go to this restaurant hehee 😛

  • KingDao Salt & Pepper Spareribs (Php 168)
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Not spicy, not too fat, cooked just right.  Sometimes when you eat spareribs, you feel like you’re taking the oil as well.  With this, you dont feel it much, so you can enjoy the food.

  • Boneless Honey Lemon Chicken (Php 212)
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This one is really good.  I still like Lutong Macau’s version better.  I’m sure though that you/other people will definitely like Kopi Tiam’s version better.  I just love chicken skin a lot, not really into meat too much.

  • Kopi Tiam Chami (Php 188)
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Combination of sotanghon & thin noodles, yummy yummy yummy.  It’s funny though that we ordered noodles instead of rice to go with the other dishes we ordered.  But we just wanted to try their noodles for a change.

They have only 2 branches though, one in Horseshoe village & one in Green Valley country club.  Hopefully they’ll open more branches, I believe this will be successful like North Park.

SOMS Noodle House

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SOMS Noodle House
5921 A. Alger Street, Poblacion, Makati City (near Makati Dog & Cat Hospital)
(02) 483-3554

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Had dinner w/ colleagues 2 weeks ago at SOMS Noodle house.  It’s an authentic Thai restaurant where you can dine in or take out.

1st thing I noticed is that there are lots of people dining there even if its outdoors, the chairs are just made of simple plastic.  Not really a place that usual people eat to.

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The food is yummy & affordable too, that’s why people kept coming back.

Here are what we ordered:

  • Bagoong Fried Rice (Php 85)
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What’s a Thai restaurant without bagoong rice?  Rice w/ soy sauce with scrambled eggs chopped, dried mango, meat w/ bagoong.  Nothing special but it’s good.

  • Gal Phat Pit (Php 120)
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I kinda noticed we ordered 3 chicken dishes hahahaa.  I don’t know why 😛  This is somewhat spicy, I especially love the leaves cooked fried, yumyum!  Chicken basil :P:P

  • Thai Tea (Php 40)
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Milk Tea put in mineral water bottle, not your usual milk tea.  I can’t seem to figure out what they put in the drink, it’s very sweet.

  • Garlic Pepper Beef (Php 120)
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Beef is soft, easy to eat.  Not too peppery.  We can choose either beef, pork, chicken or shrimp as the ingredient 🙂

  • Red Curry Chicken (Php 120)
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More spicy than the green one (see below) but I felt it tasted the same.  It’s just the color that’s different.  It tasted very good though 🙂

We also have the option to choose either beef, chicken, pork or shrimp as the main ingredient.

  • Green Curry Chicken (Php 120)
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Same w/ the 2 menu items above, we can choose between beef, chicken, pork or shrimp as the ingredient.  I just dont know why we kept ordering chicken hahaha!

  • Vegetarian Curry (Php 120)
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All the dishes taste the same, it’s just that the ingredients are different.  This time, it’s vegetables hehehehe

I’m not really fond of curry so I don’t think I’ll find myself to keep going back to the place.  But my colleagues do, they find the food at SOMS delicioouss!  They kept recommending the place too.  So I bet you might want to try this out if you haven’t, you won’t regret it 🙂

Rastro Cafe

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Rastro Cafe
4th Level, Trinoma Mall, Edsa corner North Avenue, Quezon City

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Had lunch with Stef awhile ago, I asked if we could eat at a place that is newly opened.  She recommended Rastro Cafe.

It’s a friday but throughout lunch, we were the only customers.  I really hope this is not the case everyday coz if it is, then this restaurant will probably close in a few month’s time.

Rastro Cafe is a spanish restaurant.  We made sure we ordered their Paella specialty.  We were asked if we would want to try their buffet (Php 550 per person) but we declined.  Their buffet consists of several dishes, they offer it fridays, saturdays & sundays lunch & dinner time.  I wonder what will happen to the food they prepared as there was noone else in the restaurant but us.

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Anyway, here are what we ordered:

  • Crema de Champion (Php 140)
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typical cream of mushroom soup that is more on the creamy side.

  • Salpicao (Php 250)
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Beef tenderloin sauteed in garlic & olive oil.  This is definitely one of the better tasting beef salpicao I tried so far.  Beef is tender and sauce is done really well, super good!

  • Paella ala Catalina (Php 850)
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According to the waiter, from all the paella dishes that they offer, this is the best (& ofcourse the most expensive :P).  We’ll have to wait for 20 minutes before this can be served though w/c is fine as Stef and I has a lot of stories to catch up to 🙂

A chef specialty, saffron rice w/ mussels, clams, shrimps, chicken & pork.  According to Stef, she likes Casa Armas’ paella better.  As for me, I think they all taste the same.  I like their rice, not dry and very tasty.

More pictures from our lunch here.

Krispy Kreme is Searching for their Fave Fan!

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To celebrate 6 dozen years of making yummy donuts, Krispy Kreme is opening up a worldwide search for its #1 fan in nine countries.

The 9 countries are the ff.:

  • Australia
  • Canada
  • Indonesia
  • Japan
  • Korea
  • Malaysia
  • Mexico
  • Philippines
  • United Kingdom

1 winner from each country will receive 2 dozen doughnuts for a year and will be flown to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA (the home of Krispy Kreme!).  In addition, the country winners will compete against each other to design their own doughnut.   The doughnuts will be uploaded at the Krispy Kreme Fave Fan website where it will be subject to public voting.  Winning doughnut will then be sold as a Special Edition Doughnut on April 2010.

If you are aged 18 and older w/ a passport & US Visa (or are willing to apply at your own expense), you can join the Krispy Kreme Fave Fan Promo 🙂

There are 2 ways to join the contest:

  • Register online & fill up the registration form at http://www.krispykremefavefan.com.  You will then receive a confirmation email which leads you to a link that must be clicked to complete registration.
  • Get an application form at participating Krispy Kreme stores & fill up the registration form.  You must submit to Krispy Kreme personnel to complete registration.

The contest begins on July 13, 2009 and ends September 15, 2009.

So hurry up &; join the Krispy Kreme Fave Fan Promo! 🙂  Make sure to also join the Krispy Kreme Fave Fan Facebook Page.

I just joined!  How about you?

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Chef Robert

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Chef Robert
847 Banawe corner Linao Street, Quezon City

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Had lunch today with friends at Chef Robert Banawe.  I was the one who decided on the place, wanted to try it out since it’s newly opened.

The first thing I noticed is the big teddy bear on display and also the sign that it has free wifi.  Seems like a lot of establishments are offering free wifi now, makes it easier for us to connect to the internet 🙂

We ordered 3 different solo dishes but we ended up sharing coz we wanted to try out all of it.

Here are what we ordered:

  • Korean Beef Stew(Php 185)
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While this was served, we didn’t see the meat.  The sauce (that looked like soup already) was overwhelming, we have to use the spoon and scoop up the meat so we can see 😛  The meat was tender, sauce is pretty good as well. It’s their specialty after all!

  • Pork Cutlet in Mushroom Gravy (Php 135)
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Best presentation from all the main dishes we ordered.  This is porkchop with mushroom gravy sauce.  Tasted okay, similar with the burger steak of Jollibee just that it’s porkchop instead of burger 😛  Go figure 🙂

  • Fish Fillet in Hollandaise Sauce (Php 135)
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The fish is thin & fresh but the sauce is blah.   We all agreed that the sauce ruined the dish, it tasted like pure butter.  I think it’s better if they just use garlic sauce, it might work well with the fish.

  • Mango Banana Shake (Php 75)
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This one is good.  Fresh Mango & Banana blended together is perfect.

  • Triple Chocolate Mousse (Php 115)
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Layers of bittersweet, white & milk chocolate topped with chocolate chips. Presentation is good.  Tasted okay, just like how triple chocolate mousse should be.

Chef Robert is not really my type of restaurant but worth a try. 🙂

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