Pinoy Life At Large

All in line for Mrs. Fields’ cookies and goodies! The Mrs. Fields Cookie Cafe will formally open on the 1st of September. Another branch will also open at the Trinoma, for the benefit of those living in the North. Notice some blogger celebrities there? The launch had me go gaga over everything in the menu. During the launch, everyone was allowed to go up the counter, ask for anything they wanted and come back for more. We all had a wonderful Mrs. Fields day!

Noreen’s snicker of satiety. She raved the whole time about the Banana Cashew gelato and the peanut butter-filled Dreambar, a bar of sinful pleasure disguised as a brownie. You’d be smiling too if you downed three Dreambars.

Seen here is Cherry Sy, manager of Mrs. Fields Cookie Cafe, professing that her personal favorite is the Cookie Cup as one of the best they have on their shelves. Indeed, the minute I tasted the Cookie Cup, it was heaven. Sorry no pictures of the Cookie Cup here. I was too busy stuffing myself.

Ah another year has been added to my age. Need not be so negative. A lot of things have happened and I am still reeling from the effects of my mother’s untimely demise in 2006, but life has to go on. Another year and I can no longer claim to be in the calendar. Perhaps when people say I’m too old, I can still claim to be within the lotto numbers. Conti’s is my current favorite restaurant (for a number of reasons, including their prices) and I decided to have a quiet lunch there with Noreen and her siblings (who were nice enough to bring food to my office for my coworkers). With the long queue at Conti’s, we took a little time for a photo op in the picturesque Bonifacio High Street.

Happy faces around happy food. Weng and Deng wait for their orders with great anticipation. I told them that the food at Conti’s was the best. Their smiles lingered even way after the meal.

Here’s the ribeye steak. This is actually half of an order. We got this only because the whole order was 240 grams and for one person this was rather large. The beef was medium rare and very juicy indeed.

The picture is not very clear but very delicious, I assure you. For health reasons, I chose to eat fish. This is Conti’s version of Fish and Chips. The honey mustard sauce complemented the fish wonderfully. Its wondrous juices squirted out the minute you stick your fork into it. Who says healthy can’t be delicious?