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Lasa

By | Foodie, Proud to be Pinoy! | No Comments

Congratulations Amy Alvarez, Chef CK Kalaw and Miguel Fernandez on the opening of Lasa!  Good friends and now partners in their new venture

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Heart2Heart will always support anything Pinoy!  Chef CK Kalaw also does a great job giving Pinoy food a twist – a yummy twist 🙂  

Lasa has been open for around three weeks already at Commerce Center in Commerce Avenue, Alabang.  The building has a few restaurants opened and there are many more to open
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Filipino comfort food with a twist 🙂  We enjoyed our dinner!!  Heart2Heart loves Chef CK Kalaw’s cooking!  Come on over and try it for yourself.  I hope you will like the LASA 🙂
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Instead of a bread basket, you get a puto plate!  This puto plate had talangka butter which was really yummy!!!
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and strawberry butter.  They sometimes change the butters
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Carlo, Amy’s son, made sure I ordered the empanada which is one of their most popular items in the menu
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I loved this!  
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Super Yum!
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Amy told me that this was one of her home recipes which they adapted for the restaurant.  The Garleek broth is the drippings of the Liempo
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I love bihod 🙂
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Laing Bruschetta which is not in the menu but you can order
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Loved all the desserts!!  That cream fraiche is so so good! I had it with the canonigo as well
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Starbucks Mug Collection by Jackie Co Ong

By | Hobbies, What's New at Starbucks? | 28 Comments

 

My Dad has a Starbucks tumbler collection, afterall he is the President of Starbucks Philippines 🙂  Previous entry:  Starbucks Tumbler Collection September 1, 2011

It’s amazing how people take this seriously!  Heart2Heart is so happy to feature a Starbucks mug collector, Jackie Co Ong!    

Jackie has 1,500 Starbucks mugs!!! AMAZING!!

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Jackie started her collection in 2007 and collects her mugs through her travels

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And she trades with other International collectors via a Facebook group where they can trade

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Obviously Jackie loves Starbucks! 🙂

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Her first mug was the Macau mug which she got in her trip to Macau

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Her first batch of collection

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And the rest is history!  My Dad told me to tell you Jackie that if you need any help please let him know and he will try to do his best to support your endeavor 🙂  Good luck and keep H2H posted so we can update everyone on your collection

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