Not starving in... THE PHILIPPINES

Bom dia!

Another post about how not to starve, this time in THE PHILIPPINES!


SM MARIKINA:

We went to "Vikings" in SM Marikina.
People who are hungry should really go there, for it's an all you can eat buffet, and the buffet is really RICH!!! There are so many choices, you cannot even try every dish! It's sad I didn't take any pictures of the food, but just check out the homepage!






EDSA:

We were treated to the Japanese restaurant "Senju" by my Uncle Manny.
We ordered different kinds of sushi, sashimi, maki and nigiri as appetizer and
Dom had the Tenderloin Beef Steak, and my aunt Celeste, uncle Manny and I had Gindara, which is black cod and tasted amazing.
Sadly, I didn't take any pictures of the food, but at least you get an idea of the interior there.




Corinthian Gardens:

Afterwards we had dessert at my Uncle's place (which is obviously not a restaurant, but his home) and I just wanted to show you some typical Filipino desserts.

Well first of all we have "Buko" juice, the now so trendy Coconut Water.
This is nothing new to the Filipinos, and on the contrary: They've been drinking it ever since there are coconuts on the Philippine Islands... so that's been like forever.
The difference here is: It's fresh!

Here you see a variety of fresh fruits, from my Uncle's farm, which is about an hour away of his home.

Fresh bananas, papaya, corn, grapes and two kinds of fruit, of which I forgot what they are called (on the lower left) [EDIT: I now know the names, thanks to my Kuya Mark: The round, purple ones are called "Mangosteen", and the yellow-greenish fruits are called "Starfruit"].

Then (beneath the corn), you see some kind of Empanada, and also sticky rice!

in the middle, you can(not) see more sticky rice, rolled in banana leaves, and we tried the green sticky rice rolled in banana leaves on the right. It tastes so good (but it's very, very sweet!)

This is salted caramel ice cream, which also tastes very good!

MAKATI - THE FORT:

This was the food we had, when we were at the club "URBN - BAR & KITCHEN", which is a really nice place, and there are also a lot of "Western people" (as I like to call them).
We had a pizza Margarita and onion rings.

ANGONO RIZAL:

My Kuya Don and Ate Amor took my Kuya Agets (on the left) and Ate Karen (in pink) to "ANGNEWNO" (they don't have a homepage). We mostly took pictures of ourselves, and not of the food, but we had two types of pizza, two types of pasta, sisig (a Filipino dish, which is basically fried pork's ear. Yes, I was also kind of shocked, when I heard about it, while I was already eating it, but it was good!), chicken, deep fried spicy pepper, and probably a lot more!

This was at the "Eastridge Golf Club".
My aunt Mila and Uncle Willie from Australia took Dom and me there, and it was so nice!!
For lunch, you could choose from fresh caught fish/seafood and meat, which then was grilled for us, and it was so delicious!

MEGAMALL:

My Kuya Don and Ate Amor took Dom and me to "YABU" in Megamall, where they mostly serve Katsu.
This is also a very nice place to go, with very good Japanese food!

I ordered Chicken Katsu! You can re-order as much rice, Miso soup and cabbage salad as you want, which I found very good.

In the following you'll see a couple of other "restaurants" (obviously they are mostly fast food restaurants) we went to while traveling to Boracay and Palawan, as well as the food we ate there.


BORACAY:

This is our breakfast we had at our hotel "The Boracay Beach Resort"

The upper plate shows Dom's "American Breakfast", and mine is the lower plate, with the "Filipino Breakfast with Longganisa"

This was another breakfast we had:
The upper plate shows Dom's Omelett with ham I think...
The lower plate is my Filipino breakfast with Daing (dried fish which is really salty)

This was at "I <3 Backyard BBQ" in D'Mall



I didn't really like the food. It was okay, but nothing I would recommend to anyone.

I had a grilled catch of the day Tuna, with garlic rice, grilled veggies and an egg, sunny side up. Don't know what the brown sauce was, and I also didn't like it.

Dom had the same like me, except he had a pepper steak.

Afterwards we both had a frozen yoghurt at "Pancake House", which I was kind of sorry to order in the end, for they almost set up the machine from scratch AHHAAHAHAH I thought that the frozen yoghurt was their thing, but apparently no one has ordered it in a long time... It was very good though!

 We also went to "Olé" in D'Mall, which might be the best restaurant you can go to.
It's open 24h a day, and they serve HUGE dishes!!


I ordered a "Chicken Burrito"

Domi ordered "Beef Fajitas"

This is a small meal we got at "Andok's Litson" in D'Mall which looks pretty poor, but it tastes SO GOOD!!!

It's just steamed rice, a fried chicken (WHICH WAS SO GOOD!!!!) and gravy. LOVED IT!!

And there's a small ice cream stand right in the corner of this Andok's, where they have VERY GOOD ICE CREAM!! It's so delicious!!! We went there twice in one day, once we found out about it on our last day.

This was also a very good restaurant: Valhalla, also in D'Mall (they apparently don't have a homepage.. too bad!)

Dom and I both had the same dish, but I cannot remember the name. It was linguine noodles, with a cajun sauce I think and a garlic bread... I also had prawns on my noodles!

We also went to "Epic", but I cannot find my pictures!
I had a "Crispy Pork Belly", and Dom had the "Epic Burger", which both tasted very good, but it was not a lot.. :(


NAIA:

First visit to Shakey's

"Belly Buster"



"Shakey's Special"





PALAWAN:

Breakfast at our hotel: "Hotel Fleuris"

My Filipino breakfast with fried pork meat (I forgot the Filipino name for that dish) [EDIT: Thanks again to my Kuya Mark, I now know the name again: Pork Tocino! :)]



Dom's American Breakfast with scrambled eggs, bacon, cucumber and toast.




Filipino Breakfast with Chicken Adobo




This was "Pancake House" in Robinson's Mall in Puerto Princesa.



I ordered a seafood linguine, which was a big mistake, for I was done eating after only 3 Minutes TOPS! ..and I didn't even eat quickly!
Left me sitting there still hungry... So don't order that, except if you want a small snack!

Dom's burger and fries was a little more to eat, and it tasted good!

 At "Shakey's"

Pizza Bianca

 Pizza "Manager's Choice"

Our dessert was a chocolate smoothie!! YUM! :)

At "Chow King"

Dom ate "Fried Chicken - Chinese Style", with steamed rice and crab chips, and I had a wantan soup

At "Hap Chan"

The upper plate is Dom's order of "Sweet&Sour Chicken", and I had "Fried Squid"




At "We Be Sushi", the only sushi place in Puerto Princesa, which was also the place we always had our breakfast hat (it kind of belonged to our hotel). They don't have a homepage though

This was our appetizer, and I don't know what it is! It looks like small fried chips (and they were tiny!)

Dom's chicken curry

My other appetizer: Miso Soup, no biggie! Tastes as good as any miso soup (except the one from Planet Sushi, which is disgusting, but that's another story..)

This was - NO KIDDING - my sushi plate! I was soooo overwhelmed, for it was WAY TOO MUCH for me! I mean: Look at this! This could easily feed two people!

At first I felt soooo ashamed, for I thought it was a dish to share... but no: It was really meant to be for one person only HAHA ... Geez, I was so full after eating this (Dom doesn't like Sushi that much, that's why I basically was all on my own)

This was the cute teapot and the bowl with our green tea ice cream!

If you ever go to the Philippines (and you really should!), I hope you now have an inspiration of where to go when you're hungry :)

The dishes are affordable and masarap (= tasty)!!

ENJOY YOUR MEAL! :)

x J.

Not starving in.... LONDON

Bom dia!

I planned to write about the food I ate when I was in London a while ago, but I never made it up to now...

Let me present to you: Restaurants I went to when I was in LONDON!

There is no chronological order... 

I'll also link the places I went to, but I didn't eat out all the time for I also cooked a lot at home... and here's proof :) 

(This is me cooking the German dish "Spätzle mit Geschnetzeltem", which is basically the "Spätzle" noodles with diced chicken in a cream sauce)

We went to "Janetira" before clubbing, when we met Dom's friends!

I didn't take a picture of my food (although it tasted really good), because I just had a tiny dish.. I wasn't hungry the time we went there

Here you can see the food (a bit blurry, sorry!) you get in the "Tiger Tiger" club, if you book a table. The club is pretty nice and near Trafalgar Square. We had the salami pizza, chicken wings and quesadillas, as well as nachos with guacamole, sour cream and salsa sauce.

Those were DELICIOUS pizzas we ate in the "Strada - West India Quay" in Canary Wharf
Domi took the pizza "Vesuvio" and I took the "Cotto"... SO GOOD! (although it doesn't look very nice in the picture..)

This was my yummy dish when I ate in the Cuban restaurant "La Bodeguita" with Domi and his flatmates Carlos and Isabella.
I had "Salmon Latino - Grilled salmon in a rich spicy tomato sauce topped with prawns and served with rice and cassava chips". This was the first time I had cassava chips, and I LOVED IT!!!

Domi and Isabella had "Steak Pimienta - Sirloin steak in pepper sauce, served with rice, potatoes and hot vegetables"

Carlos had a typical Cuban dish "Cazuela de Mariscos - Seafood stew served with rice and fried green plantain"

These are the Phô soups, when Dom and I ate at "Phô" in Westfield mall in Stratford.
Phô is a typical Vietnamese dish and it tastes really good!

Dom's soup (at the back): "Pho Bo Combo" - with steak, brisket and meatballs
My soup: "Bun Tom Hue" - hot and spicy tiger prawn soup
(To be honest, I liked Dom's soup better though...)

Our burgers at "GBK - Gourmet Burger Kitchen" Soho.

I had "Avocado Bacon - Avocado, crispy bacon, house mayo, relish, salad"

Dom had "The Taxidriver - American Cheese, onion ring, cajun relish, smoked chili mayo, dill pickle, salad, brioche bun"

This was at "Walmer Castle"

Dom had a chicken curry, and I had "Pad See-Iew - flat rice noodles stir-fried with choi sum, carrots, bean sprout, egg, light and dark soy sauce and white pepper" with "Goong", which means Tiger Prawns.

This was at "Yokoso", which is a restaurant right in the building Dom used to live in.
The waiters and the atmosphere there were SO NICE!!
We had an all you can eat, and seriously: What you see here is all we ate, and we COULD BARELY FINISH!
I can't believe it.. normally I used to order HUGE dishes, and I'm good in "All you can eat".. but that night was... I don't know.

However: The food tasted amazing!

The second time I was there, we went to....:

...ok this was my little snack while I was waiting for the arrival of the shuttle in Luton airport
I forgot the name of the burger, but it was one of the "special" burgers they don't have all the time..

This was my dish, when Dom and I walked through "Bloomsbury" (and Clerkenwell for that matter..) at "Hare&Tortoise".
The food was not too good, and I was very hungry.. so that was not so nice.

I ordered "Yaki Udon - wok fried smooth white udon noodles with prawns, squid, char siu pork, naruto, crab sticks, Chinese mushrooms, carrots, onions and bean sprouts" (at least I think so... cannot remember eating all these ingredients haha)

Dom ordered "Beef Chilli & Black Bean Lo Mein - stir-fried beef with onions and peppers in black bean sauce, with a touch of chilli oil, served with steamed noodles"

This was when we went to "Wahaca" in Canary Wharf. We ate here twice: Once with Isabella and Carlos, and once just Dom and me. These pictures only show what Dom and I ate.. the other time I had exactly the same dish, so nothing has changed for me haha
By the way: THIS IS MY FAVORITE PLACE TO EAT!!

These are our appetizers:
"Tender, marinated chicken Taquito - with shredded lettuce, Lancashire cheese and fresh tomato salsa" and
"Black Bean Tostada - special re-fried beans topped with avocado salsa, crema, Lancashire cheese and fresh tomato salsa"

This was my dish: "British Steak Burrito"

Dom's dish: "Marinated Grilled Chicken"

This was the food Isabella prepared for New Year's Eve!

Roasted potatoes, apple salad (which I couldn't try, due to my apple allergy), ham and a nice mix of pepper bells, tomatoes and onions, as well as nachos

I hope you now have an inspiration where you could go out to eat when you're in London!
Most of the restaurants are affordable and I can really recommend the "Wahaca" restaurants, which you can find all over town, and also "La Bodeguita", which is near Elephant&Castle!

ENJOY YOUR MEAL!

x J.