Showing posts with label food trip. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food trip. Show all posts

Weekend with the Girls: Ate Our Way Through Hong Kong!

Last March, I traveled with my high school barkada for the very first time. First time in our 20+ years of friendship! It's one of the those spontaneous moments and the next thing we know, we're all booked and ready to go! I almost didn't make it to this trip because I didn't realize that my passport was already expired until about a week before our trip!!! Epic fail talaga! Mind you, our flight was booked last January pa! One night, maybe around first week of March,  I was taking a bath, shampooing my hair when I thought to ask BOS to check my passport if it's still valid. EXPIRED NA! Expired for 6 months na. OMG talaga! Parang lahat ng dugo ko pumunta sa ulo ko! I told my barkada about it and I was apologizing na baka hindi ako makasama!!!  I really wasn't expecting my passport to come out on time, I didn't pack pa because I didn't want to be disappointed.  Hay grabe, that was such a stressful week! Thank God for a friend who helped me get an appointment ASAP and I got my passport two days before our trip. Thank you talaga!!!
One of my barkada, Clarissa, is getting married on September and this was sort of a very early send-off/bachelorette party. Our goal was to eat, bond, eat, drink, sleep. Repeat for 3 days! No kids, no boyfriends, no husbands for 3 days. Woohoo!

It was my first time to stay in TST. I've been staying in Causeway Bay for as long as I can remember. It was a good change because I was looking into staying here too for our family trip on October and I need to know where are the good restaurants are, the MTR stations, bus stops, etc.
We stayed in Marco Polo Prince. Big room and beds!

We ate where our feet led us to. We followed Cindy's lead because she's the one who knows where the good food are in TST. We pooled money for our food so we don't have to split our bill every time we ate.

Chinese Kitchen Taiwan Beef Noodle
I thought they are serving Taiwanese cuisine based on the restaurant's name but they're not! They roast duck is really good! Everything was yummy or baka gutom lang kami haha!


Mak's Noodle
I was the one who wanted to try Mak's Noodle but I was disappointed. It's 42 HKD for a small bowl of Wanton Noodles. Inhaled it in 10 minutes. Not sulit!

After walking around Harbor City, we had a night cap at Aqua Spirit. We had three bottles of wine... we ordered the cheapest one on their menu. It was 699 HKD. Kaloka!!! Hahaha! Takip mata na lang kami, we were there to enjoy ourselves naman. 
Of course we have to take photos for IG purposes hihi! A for effort lang!
It has been a really long time since I had a drink with these girls and I don't have to worry about driving home because we just walked back to the hotel!

On our second day, we went to Central. Window shopping lang and had high tea at Cova. I had one of the best Tiramisu I've ever tasted. They have a high tea buffet but the selection was not as good as the one in Harbor City so we just had their set and ordered Tiramisu and Lobster Sandwich.

Street Food
After Cova, we went back to TST and Jacq wanted to check out Etude House. Hindi ko na alam which area we were in TST. Maybe Granville? Haha! After shopping, we had our street food fix on in an alley beside Cotton On.
YUM!!!

Ka Ka Lok Fastfood Shop
And as if we weren't full from all the street food we ate, we had a late night run to Ka Ka Lok for some fried chicken and sausages and 7-11 for some beer! Fried chicken with beer, so bad yet so good! It's all take away so we ate it in the hotel.


Le Cafe de Joel Robuchon
Our 3D2N trip went by so fast! The most memorable and yummy (and most expensive haha!) food we had was at the Le Cafe de Joel Robuchon. Lahat masarap! Sorry not a food blogger talaga, I just enjoy food! Basta masarap siya for me.
So good that we finished everything! Worth every Hong Kong cent! Heehe!

This trip was one for the books! Thank you girls for the wonderful weekend! I hope there will be a repeat... but I can't promise it to be yearly hahaha! I'm sure BOS was relieved when I came home na!

A&D Eats: Thaipan

Last week after our Kindermusik class, we had lunch at this tucked away Thai restaurant in Quezon City, Thaipan.  Good to know that there are more Thai restaurants opening in the Metro for that Tom Yum and Chicken Curry fix!
I really loved the interior and ambiance of Thaipan. There's an al fresco area which is perfect for dinners and for drinks. 
But since it was lunch when we went, it was a bit hot to dine outside so we had our lunch inside.
We have a few staples when dining in a Thai restaurant. We have our favorites and I'm looking for the best Tom Yum and Chicken Curry in town! And here's what we ordered (just thinking about it makes me hungry!) And sorry I forgot the names of the dishes because we were so hungry when we ordered!
Fried Crablets - tasty! Perfect for pulutan!
This is pork. Forgot the name! Eeep! But it was also yummy!
Green Chicken Curry - creamy and flavorful! One of the best curry!
Tom Yum - YUM! I had two bowls!
Bagoong Rice - achi's favorite.
Phad Thai
Pineapple Fried Rice - this was good but plain rice to go with the curry is better!
Thai Iced Tea - LOVE!

I had a satisfying lunch at Thaipan! Hubby was so envious hihi! I'm taking him there for some dinner or lunch date soon! I also got a lot of comments on my IG when I posted the photo of Thaipan. Go check them out!

120 Scout Dr. Lazcano, Tomas Morato, Quezon City 1103
Landline:  352-4926
Cellphone: 0917-808-0718

Singaporean Fare at Boon Tong Kee Tomas Morato

One of my favorite Singaporean dishes is the Hainanese Chicken with lots and lots of the ginger sauce and a plateful of chicken rice! YUM! Around 2 weeks ago, the #SoMoms were invited by Jenny's cousin, Miguel Aranaz or Moya, to have lunch at Boon Tong Kee and try out their signature as well as their new dishes!

The first time I tried Boon Tong Kee was in Power Plant. BOS and I had our ingress for The Next Big Thing bazaar, we had our post ingress dinner there and got to try a few dishes. For QC people or when you find yourself in QC and looking for something new to try, Boon Tong Kee is now open in Tomas Morato! It's right beside Burgoo.

And now for some food porn!

I love this creamy and thick soup! I think my kids and hubby will like this soup!
Thick Soup with Crab and Pork

Their best-selling dish and I think the best Cereal Prawns I've ever tasted! All of their ingredients are imported from Singapore so you are sure of their quality and authenticity!
Love love this dish! Best Cereal Prawns in Manila!
Signature Boiled Chicken

Aside from their signature dishes, we also got to try new offerings!
We got to try the Char Siu, Stir Fried Lotus with Sambal and Poched Bai Cai with Gluten!
Uber tender honey glazed pork!
Very healthy dish!
Another dish I truly enjoyed was this Braised Yimian Prawn Noodles! Noms!
Noms!
Coffee Pork! Sarap with rice!
Grabe I ate so much! Food was super yummy and I don't need to go to Singapore to eat these yummy dishes! And this wasn't over yet! We had desserts pa! There's always room for desserts!
Green Tea Creme Brulee
Sago Gula-Melaka
Pulot Hitam - my favorite of them all!
Soya Pudding! Noms!

I don't think I've ever had so much Singaporean food! I'm excited to take my family and have them try everything we had. My kids would surely love the soup and BOS would love those Cereal Prawns!

Thank you again to the owners, Joy and Michael Rodriguez, Marketing Manager Miguel Aranaz and Operations Manager Inigo Alvero for having the #SoMoms!

Boon Tong Kee Philippines
Twitter : @BoonTongKeePH

Branches:
MALL OF ASIA BRANCH
2/F, Entertainment Mall, North Wing (by Seaside Blvd)
SM Mall of Asia, Pasay City
Mon-Thu, Sun 10am to 10pm
Fri-Sat 10am to 11pm
(02)8042862

POWER PLANT MALL BRANCH
3/F, Power Plant Mall (near cinemas), Makati City
Mon-Thu 11am to 9pm
Fri 11am to 10pm
Sat 10am to 10pm
Sun 10am to 9pm
(02)8900160

TOMAS MORATO BRANCH
310 Tomas Morato Avenue (near ABS-CBN)
Quezon City
Mon-Thu 11am to 9pm
Fri 11am to 10pm
Sat 10am to 10pm
Sun 10am to 9pm
(02)3325692

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