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  • Real Leaf Green Tea: a healthy drink

    real leaf green tea

    Real Leaf Green Tea is made of natural green tea leaves, honey and fruit flavors such as apple, lemon and lychee. These flavors are also known as Honey Lemon, Honey Apple and Honey Lychee. What’s to like about Real Leaf Green Tea: it’s deliciously reviving! (more…)

  • Chic-Boy: Chicken at Baboy

    Cebu Lechon Liempo at Chic-Boy
    Cebu Lechon Liempo (Whole), PhP 155 per order

    The name of Chic-Boy is obviously a word-play of their specialties chicken and pork (the English translation of “baboy”). There are a number of take-out stores in Metro Manila (mostly located in Quezon City). It’s good that they’ve opened a full fast food restaurant along Jupiter St. in Makati City. Yes to 24 hours of access to their sumptuous and sinful Cebu Lechon Liempo. πŸ˜€ (more…)

  • Binondo Food Tour Series #5: Tasty Dumplings

    Taiwanese style Meatball Soup at Tasty Dumplings
    Taiwanese style Meatball Soup, PhP 63 per order

    Tasty Dumplings, located near Minor Basilica of St. Lorenzo, is a Taiwanese fast food restaurant. We weren’t really planning to eat there but since we’re waiting for Juned, we decided to stay inside and order something light. (more…)

  • Chewy Junior: Not your Ordinary Cream Puff

    Box of 3 of Chewy Junior Cream Puffs
    Box of 3, 109 pesos

    Chewy Junior is not your typical cream puff. One can easily tell just by looking at it. Chewy Junior cream puffs are crisp on the outside. However, once your teeth goes deeper on it, you’ll notice that it’s soft and chewy. (more…)

  • KFC Krushers’ The Sweet Escape Photo Contest

    KFC is having a photo contest where the participants will have a chance to win an all-expense paid getaway to whatever country one chooses to recreate! The winner can bring his/her family or friends with him/her for a vacation but there’s a spending limit of PhP 400,000 (inclusive of fare and accommodations) All you have to do is to make the picture look as if it was taken in another country even if the photo is taken from the Philippines. πŸ˜€ (more…)

  • Binondo Food Tour Series #3: New Po-Heng Lumpia House

    Lumpia at New Po-Heng Lumpia House
    Fresh Lumpia, 45 pesos

    Looking for fresh spring rolls in Binondo? You might want to check out New Po-Heng Lumpia House in Uy Su Bin Building at Quintin Paredes St. The Fresh Lumpia is served with the use of dried powdered seaweed.  (more…)

  • Yummy Magazine’s Contest for Bloggers

    Yummy Magazine May 2010 issue

    Yummy Magazine is holding a contest for food bloggers! This involves cooking up something from the May issue of Yummy Magazine and blogging about it eventually. Most of the recipes featured in this blog are from Yummy Magazine. The contest already started and it will run until May 15, 2010. The winner will get a 6-month subscription to Yummy Magazine and P2000 worth of gift certificates from Mr. Jones. πŸ˜€ Read more for the mechanics. (more…)

  • Puerto Princesa Food Trip Series #1: Bona’s Chao Long

    Chao Long at Bona's Chao Long

    Beef Stew with Noodles @ Php 45

    You will most likely wonder why you should try out Chao Long (Vietnamese dish) when you’re is in Puerto Princesa, Palawan. In addition, you will also think why there are a lot of eateries in Puerto Princesa that are offering Chao Long. History tells us that there were Vietnamese who became refugees here in the Philippines. This was the main reason why there are a lot of eateries offering Chao Long. πŸ™‚ (more…)

  • Singapore Chicken Rice

    Singapore Chicken Rice
    White Chicken Rice, 95 pesos per order

    Amidst the busy streets of Cubao, you’ll get to taste White Chicken Rice which is often referred to as the national dish of Singapore. The name of the restaurant is derived from the name of the dish. (more…)

  • 25 years of Dairy Queen’s Blizzard

    dairy queen 25th anniversary

    April 2010 is the time of the year where Dairy Queen’s Blizzard is celebrating its 25th birthday. Dairy Queen’s treat to us on the 25th birthday of our favorite soft serve ice cream are the 25 flavors of Blizzard. Thanks to Dairy Queen for inviting me to try out those. πŸ™‚ (more…)