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Mr. Jones

Posted by Rochelle Sy Chua On January 11, 2010

Mr. Jones
Phase 2, Greenbelt 5, Ayala Center, Makati City
(02) 501-3111

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Sharleen and I met up for dinner last week. It was a great night to bond with one of my dearest friends. I just missed her. We used to go out a lot before. Since she got married and had kids, we had to cut down on our meet up days.

For our dinner, I gave the suggestion that we should try out Mr. Jones because I have heard lots about it on Twitter. I like to try out things I see recommended online, it doesn’t matter if it’s foxy bingo online or a really good book, I think it’s good to try things that others recommend. When we arrived at the venue, we had to wait because we were 3rd on the waiting list. I thought to myself, I guess that they really were that good.

Here are what we ordered:

Cherry Almond Crunch (Php 175)

cherry shake mr jones

I love almonds and cherries! So I had to try Mr. Jones’ famous milkshakes. I ordered their cherry almond crunch 🙂

Mr. Jones’ Cherry Almond Crunch milkshake basically has vanilla ice cream, whipped cream, cherries, almonds and almond syrup. All ingredients were shaked in the metal container then poured into a glass. If there were any excess, they would still give it to us. That’s the reason why the shaker was served to me as well.

“Garlic Portobello” Steak & Eggs (Php 450)

garlic steak mr jones

According to my friend, this Beef Tenderloin steak topped with mushrooms and served with three eggs (cooked any style) and with potatoes was too watery and ended up with no taste. I could see the disappointment so I guess I will never order this Mr. Jones’ menu item.

1/2 Inch Thick Double-Smoked Bacon & Eggs (Php 295)

smoked bacon mr jones

This is 1/2 inch big big bacon! I usually prefer crispy thin bacon though but this is okay. It was served with biscuits, potatoes & 2 eggs. Definitely will make your stomach full.

U.S. Beef Ribcap “Tapa & Garlic Overload” (Php 295)

tapa overload mr jones

This is like the yummiest tapa I have ever eaten! Overload, true sense of the word! I wasn’t able to finish it. It was just too much but I defintely recommend that you order this. Bestseller! 🙂

The tapa was topped with tons of toasted garlic and was served with garlic rice, 2 eggs and atchara. This is definitely a must order.

Twinings Green Tea Lemon (Php 110)

tea mr jones

The servers will let you choose which flavor of Twinings you prefer. Then right after they served it in a tea pot with a huge cup (which could actually be a container for a soup). It’s that big! :P:P Cute!

I also liked the ambiance of the restaurant. It had this diner design. They even had a jukebox!! I tried the jukebox out (it’s the small thingy behind the seat in the picture below). It had songs of Elvis Presley. All of it!! hahaha! I also love the couch which was very comfortable. You would really love to hang out at the place for quite some time.

mr jones sits

Food trip! Loved it! 🙂 More pictures here.

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BBQ Chicken

Posted by Rochelle Sy Chua On January 10, 2010

BBQ Chicken
102 Jupiter Street, Bel-Air, Makati City
(02) 896-3272

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A few days ago, we had our girl bonding lunch session at BBQ Chicken. We haven’t been there so we wanted to try it out. I was very much impressed as all the dishes were delicious! Their fried chicken menu items were out of stock when we were there. So I’ll make sure to try those next time as well as their other chicken dishes..

BBQ Chicken is located at Jupiter Street. I don’t know if you believe in jinxes or feng sui but this particular space is somewhat a jinx to commercial establishments. I remember several businesses closed in that location, maybe there’s bad feng shui? Ok, maybe not as well but I think BBQ chicken will stay.

Here are what we ordered:

1-pc. Grilled Chicken Bulgalbi Set (Php 140)

BBQ Chicken has a lunch time daily promo for those who are on a budget. The promo runs from 10AM until 3PM. How it goes, there’s a certain menu item that you can get discount with. The catch is with a normal order, you will get 2 pieces while in this discounted item, you will only get 1 piece.

Jo ordered this while Hai ordered the regular-priced item. Let me get to that next.

Grilled Chicken Bulgabi Set (Php 195)

This is grilled thigh part barbecued with chicken sauce. From the look that they had, I was sure both Jo and Hai loved their orders. The food just looked delicious! When I asked them, they agreed. By the way, this was barbecued in charcoal, giving it a Korean twist.

Classic Bulgalbi Value Meal (Php 85)

BBQ Chicken doesn’t only have a lunch promo, it also has its everyday promo. I ordered the classic bulgalbi just to try out a different menu item. I was very impressed that the chicken was soooo good. The fried rice was super yummy! I don’t know how they cooked the fried rice but I was definitely hooked. I finished it even though my bulgalbi was just small.

Bulgalbi Burger & Potato (Php 150)

This looked classy. Boneless bulgalbi patty seasoned with sauce put in & w/ vegetables, tomatoes & cheese. This was served w/ fries and ketchup sauce.

Col-Pop Chicken (Php 80)

colpop

This is definitely unique. Okay, I admit by this time, I was already full but yes, I still opted to order this because I wanted to show you this awesome menu item. Great innovation. Great for movies. Unfortunately though, they are located far from the movie houses. 🙁

This is chicken breast cooked popcorn style. They have this customized container for the chicken which you can put on top of the tall drinks cup. So you just need to bring the cup and you already have both the chicken and your drink with it. Great, great, great idea!

The rest of our super enjoyable lunch here.

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Club 360

Posted by Rochelle Sy Chua On January 10, 2010

Club 360
2nd Floor, A. Venue Mall, Makati Avenue, Makati City
(02) 994-9674

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This is my 2nd time at Club 360. The first time I wasn’t able to blog about it because, well I lost the pictures I took there! Anyhow, I was very impressed the 1st time as it stuck in my mind that Club 360 served good food. So when my friend invited me for dinner, I immediately said, “Let’s go to Club 360 at A. Venue Mall.“

The impression you would get from Club 360 when you look at it, you would think that it was a bar rather than a restaurant. Club 360 is obviously projecting a bar/club image. It had a pretty cool red and black themed entrance with circle shape and yes, that caught my attention.

The bar impression you get before you enter? Totally forgotten once you walk past the door. It really is a restaurant more than a club!!

club 360 restaurant

We ordered the following:

Pineapple Fried Rice (Php 180)

I was very disappointed when this was served to us. I ordered this because I saw the picture in the menu where the rice was supposed to be served in pineapple. You think my disappointment evaporated? It continued with the taste of the dish. This dish is just normal.

Spareribs Salt & Pepper (Php 200)

This dish, i remember ordering during my 1st visit at Club 360. It still tasted the same, meat was tender and yummy to eat.

Chinese Kangkong w/ Lechon Kawali (Php 195)

Lechon Kawali w/ Kangkong is definitely a good combination. I love it!

Mascovado Healthy Lemonade (Php 60)

There were three types of lemonade served in Club 360. I’m having a hard time distinguishing the difference. So i ended up asking the servers. I asked, “What is the difference between masconvado, healthy lemonade, lemon mascovado lemonade and honey lemonade?”

Their answers were useless! hahahaha!

They don’t even know themselves. They just gave me ssoooo crazy answers like this is with honey, this is with lemon and this is healthy. LOLz. Crazy.

360 Iced Tea (Php 60)

Mango Sago (Php 90)

The mango sago is like the worst mango sago I have ever eaten!! It’s like watered mango! That’s how I felt the taste was like 🙁

I feel sad that when we visited Club 360, there were few people dining there. To be fair, even in all the other restaurants in the mall, we observed that there aren’t too many people. The location of Club 360 isn’t helping it attract customers either. See, most events and parties are on the first floor. And Club 360? They are on the 2nd floor of the mall where too few visit.

A proof that there were not much people? Three servers were entertaining customers in 1 table. That’s too much customer service, IMHO. I hope their business will do better. Such a waste if they just close down.

More pictures from our dinner here.

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Feng Wei Wei Authentic Taiwanese Cuisine

Posted by Rochelle Sy Chua On January 2, 2010

Feng Wei Wei Authentic Taiwanese Cuisine
#82 Banawe Street corner Samat Street, SMH, Quezon City, Philippines
(02) 412-5435

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Feng Wei Wei is just a small stall in Banawe, Quezon City but there are always so many people dining. I wondered why. Well I didn’t have a chance to try it until the other day. I’m just so glad I did.

Their place is like a canteen. You can choose from the display which food you want to order. Everything looks sooo yummy. It’s very chinese, the owners are taiwanese and can’t speak tagalog well. They have lots of filipino staff so you don’t have to worry about the language barrier.

canteen feng wei wei

Here are what we ordered:

Broccoli Mushroom (Php 90)

This is Broccoli with Mushrooms. Not fond of mushrooms, I only ate the broccoli. This is simple, healthy & delicious. I believe that broccoli should not have a lot of things cooked with it. So this dish is just good as it is 🙂

Sausage Steam Chicken (Php 100)

I’m not fond of steamed chicken. Whenever I look into one, I always imagine that it would be like raw chicken. Yeeeewww!!! Since we already ordered this, I might as well try one right? Surprisingly good, very tasty but I still can’t get over my initial impression. Oh yeah, I let my friend finish this dish 😛

Adobo Tofu (Php 50)

So what’s my favorite dish from our lunch at Feng Wei Wei? Adobo Tofu! Let me tell you, this dish? You could taste the adobo all over the tofu. It was perfect.

Black Pepper Egg Rice (Php 80)

Do you remember my post about Gate One Cafe Taipei? Now I understand why this dish also has so much pepper. The dish was really meant to be that way. I appreciate this more now. It just proved that Feng Wei Wei really is offering authentic Taiwanese Cuisine. I would know right? I just came from Taiwan for vacation.

Soya Milk (Php 75)

Good enough for two 🙂

Assorted 8 Beans Ice (Php 55)

This is similar to Daifu Noodle House’s famous dessert. While Daifu definitely gives more, Feng Wei Wei’s Wonder Ice is more delicious! I felt like there was gulaman syrup in the ice because I felt I was eating gulaman. But it still tasted good 🙂

Before I forget to mention, Feng Wei Wei is also offering party food. While we were dining there, I heard someone ordered some dishes for Php1,000 per dish. I think it was good for at least 10 people, though I’m not so sure.

I’ve always wanted to try Feng Wei Wei & I’m glad I was able to eat there. You can find the rest of the pictures here.

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Mom & Tina’s Bakery Cafe

Posted by Rochelle Sy Chua On January 1, 2010

Mom & Tina’s Bakery Cafe
G/F Unit 14 Tropical Palm Plaza, Perea cor. Dela Rosa St., Legaspi Village, Makati City
(02) 840-4299

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I dropped by the office last week though I was on leave. I don’t know why but I guess I missed work? Anyhow, I had quite a great time with colleagues Jo & Miko during dinner. Jo recommended Mom &a Tina’s Bakery Cafe w/c I haven’t heard of before. I’m so glad we went through with it coz the food is good! Wow! I didn’t know that there are still lots of places I haven’t tried to go to.

Mom & Tina’s Bakery Cafe started as a hobby of a mom and daughter, I suppose the daughter’s name is Tina. They put up the cafe to share with us their home-cooked food & freshly baked pastries. The ambiance was pretty cool though. Their decors really exudes the holiday season. I was even wearing green so I kinda helped with the theme. 😛

Roch Mom and Tinas

Here are what we ordered:

Carousel (Php 80)

Carousel meaning I can have any drink if I finished 1 glass. I can’t have all flavors in 1 shot but I can ask for each flavor each time. If you wanna try out all their bottomless drinks in 1 sitting then this is for you. This includes Lemon Iced Tea, Red Iced Tea, Green Iced Tea & Blue Lemonade.

Bottomless Red/Green/Lemon Iced Tea (Php 60)

Well, this is not carousel. So you order just one of those iced tea. For me though, I liked the green iced tea the best 🙂 per glass is at Php 45.

Smoked Salmon Sandwich (Php 275)

You can see the salmon in the sandwich. Looks yummy right? This is smoked salmon w/ lettuce, egg slices, capers, cream cheese & dill sauce. Served with one of the best potato chips I have ever eaten.

Philly Cheesesteak (Php 255)

Grilled rib eye with melted cheese on a bun served with their delicious potato chips. I wish I could just order the potato chips.

Half-Pound Salisbury Steak (Php 265)

This one is very good. The burger was juicy & very meaty. I enjoyed each and every bite of it. It’s grilled sirloin burger pattie served with vegetables, mashed potato and rice. There’s actually a quarter-pounder Salisbury steak (Php 195) but I felt it wouldn’t be enough for me. I was right! Half-pounder is just right for me. You should try this when you go to Mom & Tina’s Bakery Cafe.

Mocha Frosticcino (Php 98)

Toblerone Walnut Torte Cup (Php 90)

This one tasted fresh and good but I was too full already. I tried out just one scoop. There are other Torte Cups available in Mom & Tina’s like White Toblerone (Php 95), Mango (Php 85), Strawberry (Php 100) & Dark Toblerone (Php 95).

Christmas dinner pictures at a new-found restaurant, thanks Jo & Miko! 🙂

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