Miriel's posts with tag: food
|  | Because I take way too much food photos...
12 June 2008: Update! New photos from Sebastians, Banana Leaf, and Good Earth. |
| | A rather late post. Here are pics of a New Year's family get together with Vietnamese food --all home cooked!! Yum! Yum! Well, except for the balut :-p
Merienda-sena courtesy of the Francisco clan, V Luna branch. |
| | Dinner at Lola Tita's for the three December celebrants --Marty, Lolo Jun and Lolo Fred. As with any Francisco party, we had too much to eat. To ennumerate the food:
Pancit Malabon
Garlic Shrimp
Halabos na Hipn
Crab (in Garlic & another with Gata)
Caldereta
Crispy Pata
Mangga't Bagoong
Some Shellfish Soup :)
For dessert: Leche Flan, Almond Jelly with Lychee & Conti's Chocolate Cake.
So full! |
| | More food finds at Bubble Tea (another offspring of Pearl Shakes, or better yet the local Sago't Gulaman) and Xocolat.
I wasn't impressed with Bubble Tea. The food was good but not great. Nothing to get all excited about. Food is probably what you'd call a fusion of east and west (kani meet sandwich, ebi meet sesame bun). The chips were quite spicy --wasabi flavored. As for the bubble tea, the "bubbles" or sago as we call them locally are noticeable softer and the tea seems authentic.
Xocolat is a favorite. While I love chocolate, I find rich chocolate drinks a tad too heavy for my taste. Which is why I love xocolat chai --mint tea with chocolate. It's lighter with the tea concotion but the chocolate taste still dominates. Plus the mint gives the drink a little kick. The dishes I've tried were relatively good, again, nothing exciting. Though I did find the crispy dilis as a side to be quite good, giving the rather continental food a bit of Pinoy flavor. Added bonus: not quite as crowded as your local Starbucks. |
| | Armed with a semi-decent camera on my phone, I'm now able to indulge my food photographer desires. Now only if I could just always remember to take pictures of food before eating it!
This is a hodgepodge of food photos, nothing spectacular really, but to better define them I guess I'll give a bullet rundown...
Breakfast of bacon and eggs at 10pm at Heaven 'n Eggs at Trinoma
My lola's homemade fried rice
Cibo's Lemon Torte/a
Crinkles ala Mode --hot chocolate crinkles topped with ice cream... wonderful!
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
Saint Gabbie's Revel Bar (true to their tag line: sinfully delightful)
Breakfast at Wheatberry --again, another batch of bacon, sausages and eggs
Cafe Breton's classic ---butter and sugar crepe
Sugarhouse's Chinese Chicken Salad
Chocolate Fondue at Annabel Lee
UFO (donut with ice cream) and Ice Cream Blueberry cheesecake from Five Cows at Trinoma |
| | To keep with my latest tradition, I'll post my food photos from my trip to Siem Reap in Cambodia. I had the best banana blossom salad there --with some sort of vinigrette and basil. It was perfect salad with the intense heat since it was both light and refreshing. The basil was what made it perfect though. Another enjoyable summer treat was the gelato from Blue Pumpkin.
As for Khmer (Cambodian) food, it seems that the national dish was amok --curry with coconut milk instead of yoghurt. You can choose what goes in it. I was able to try the fish and chicken --both very tasty and spicy. Yum! The other Khmer food we tried were mostly fried, reminded me of Pinoy food while the rest had Vietnamese traces.
We also had dinner at Sofitel and FCC from some international cuisine. Seems that even if you're exploring the temples of Ankor, just round the corner is a "continental" restaurant. |
| | Seems like one of my favorite photo subjects is food.... Well, here are some of the foodie finds from Singapore. |
| Category: | Restaurants | | Cuisine: | Desserts | | Location: | Tagaytay |
Had the pleasure of visiting Tagaytay once again and since I'm from QC, a trip down south doesn't happen that often. The drive was leisurely and stress-free. Twas in fact, the perfect lazy Sunday afternoon drive.
I've always seen Tagaytay as a food haven. Personal favorites are Antonio's, Breakfast at Antonio's, Sonya's Garden, and Santuario (before they moved to the Rotonda). I've heard very good reviews about Bag of Beans and decided to break my usual Tagaytay fare by checking it out.
Coffee was good a strong. Had the barako blend and til early in the evening I was still quite giddy from the caffeine. Barako, in my opinion, is best taken black --to get a better feel of the strong, earthy flavor which is muddled when diluted with cream or milk. We also had some of their desserts --chocolate mousse, pineapple pie (which was pleasantly sour. yum!), apple pie, and blueberry cheesecake. But the hands down winner was the cinnamon roll. It was generously packed with cinnamon and the bread was pleasantly soft. I was planning on taking home a dozen but they were sold out by the time we were about to leave. Yes, they're that good.
The only thing I didn't quite like was that service was slow. But then again, if you're in Tagaytay on a slow, Sunday afternoon, what's the hurry?
 | Category: | Restaurants | | Cuisine: | Desserts | | Location: | Mall of Asia |
I've heard about these famous bibingcrepes for sometime. Both me and my friend Erica have been meaning to try it for some time but were never able to squeeze it in our perpetually busy schedules. So it was fate that I found their stall in Mall of Asia.
Bibingcrepe is actually a cross between the Pinoy kakanin Bibingka and the delicate French crepe. The concept itself is interesting --marrying two culturally different dishes. But the execusion is simple. A typical bibingka is folded in half & its center filled ala crepe.
I tried the cheese & chocolate version, their bestseller. I was a bit reluctant with the savory-sweet combination but it turned out quite well. The salty creaminess of cheese complimented the rich chocolate sweetness --resulting in a sort salty-sweet tug-o-war (which seems to be the current desserts' trend).
All-in-all it was an interesting food find & I do plan on trying out their other flavors. But I still wouldn't trade the good-ol'-fashioned bibingka with itlog na maalat (salted duck egg) & kesong puti (white carabao's cheese)
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