Archive for March, 2008
Dining at Balaw Balaw
ShareBalaw-balaw is Angono’s answer to Nueva Ecija’s Halubaybay and Iloilo’s Ginamos. It is just as fermented as goes well with just about anything. Balaw Balaw is also a restaurant of good repute in the town of Angono, a restaurant frequented more by Manilenos than by the locals. Aside from the food, people troop to Balaw [...]
March 30, 2008
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Tags: angono, art cafe, balaw balaw, rizal · Posted in: Uncategorized
Shanghai Hand-Pulled Noodles of Banaue: the next big thing in noodles!
ShareThis wonderful little food find should have been featured in my blog two weeks ago. Sadly, things got a little too busy and this post was inadvertently shelved for more than a week. However, I managed to wise up and finish my office chores (finally!) leaving me my precious 2 am mornings to blog about [...]
March 17, 2008
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Arpee ·
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Tags: banaue street, shanghai hand-pulled noodles · Posted in: Uncategorized
Jelly Belly at Le Souffle
ShareFinally, I got the chance to go on a Jelly Belly launch at the Le Souffle Rockwell in Makati. Quite the eye-opener for me, I never thought that there was more to the jelly bean than just a sweet treat. Because this wonderful confection is easy to handle, not messy to work with and comes [...]
March 13, 2008
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Tags: candy corner, jelly beans, jelly belly, le souffle · Posted in: events
The sights and smells of the Salcedo Market
ShareAh the Saturday market at the Salcedo park was quite the trip. Aside from the Wagyu burgers, there was also Tita Cely’s laing, adobong pusit, paksiw na pata and other delights. So, I will not bore you by talking about how great it was or how good the food was, and all that blah. See [...]
March 7, 2008
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Arpee ·
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Tags: barbecue, paksiw na pata, salcedo market, sushi, tilapia · Posted in: Uncategorized
Wagyu burgers anyone?
ShareI finally got around to visit the Saturday Salcedo Market. I worked in the Ayala area for some years but I never got to visit this much-talked about market. After spending almost a year in McKinley Hill, I realized I missed downtown Makati. So this Saturday, I asked Noreen to go with me the famed [...]
March 1, 2008
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Arpee ·
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Tags: salcedo market, wagyu beef, wagyu burgers · Posted in: markets

