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In September 2012, my Ramen boys went to Butao Ramen in Hong Kong. They will search for the best Ramen place always wherever we are! They went early and lined up
Previous entry: Butao Ramen September 21, 2012
and Chef Javs went back last August with his Tito Jun Jun
No need to go to Hong Kong to have Butao!! It is only the Hong Kong branch that calls itself Butao Ramen which is known to us Filipinos who go there but the real name is Ramen Nagi so they are one and the same
Chef Ryoichi Nishio who will be one of the chefs that will be based here to cook for the Manila branch! With one of the owners, Avi Siy-Chua
Chef Nishio told us that one of the secrets is the noodles. 30% of the noodles are water so you need to make sure that you use good water in making the noodles
Another owner, James Chua! Congratulations!!! James told me that their second branch will be in Mall of Asia and will open sometime in January
Ramen Nagi owners – Michael James Chua, Carissa Coscolluela, Roxanne Farillas, Enti Coscolluela, Avi Siy-Chua and Erickson Farillas
Chef Ikuta and his team from Japan – Atsushi Kobayashi, Nobuhiro Sonoda, Ryoichi Nishio and Chef Ikuta
Create your own Ramen. For now they will only serve Ramen so they can focus on making sure the Ramen is up to their standards. Later on they will have the gyoza, the Chasu rice and other additional menu items
We were able to try 4 Ramens!
Butao King for James
Ramen boy Chef Javs had the Red King and he says that this is the BEST! He seemed to be the expert – he told us to order hard or extra hard noodles. Missing our other Ramen boy who we will definitely bring here when he arrives!
They have the freshly pressed garlic and bean sprouts. I loved adding the fresh garlic!
Carlo my cousin joined us and so we were able to try another ramen to share. Carlo ordered the Butao King. All the Ramen boys I was with that night said it was very good
We were able to order and share the Black King which was Squid with black ink
I was not planning to order my own but when I saw they had green pesto with cheese – I figured that was something I could eat and wow I enjoyed it!!!
I don’t normally eat Ramen but this was good! They should have extra cheese on the omotenashi sheet 🙂 I pressed from garlic and wow, even better!
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Our main purpose was to visit the cathedral and that is what we did first thing the next day. There were many people inside so we quickly went through it and we were able to join a mass since it was a Sunday
Santiago means Saint James 🙂 and this is where the relics of Saint James are kept
I made sure i took a photo of James with St. James in the main altar. You can go up and touch the status of St. James. I was quite far from the altar so the zoom photo did not come out that clear – but that is James with St. James 🙂
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A few months before our trip, we watched the movie, THE WAY. It’s a beautiful movie! Though we did not plan to walk the Camino, I hope to do the pilgrimage one of these days with a group of friends
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I heard about the Camino several years ago from my friend, Rina, who did a 150 km pilgrimage with a group of female friends for 7 days
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And we arrive in Santiago! It’s a different feeling to be in a place of God, a place filled with love! Our hotel which is a Parador is right in the plaza where the Cathedral is and it is beautiful!
You will feel the love and the passion from all the pilgrims that travelled the camino
and come here to end their journey
We had dinner in the restaurant of the hotel upon arrival and it was very good and very reasonably priced even if it was in the hotel
Breakfast buffet was also very good with a wide selection
What is important to me is the cereal section and the churros 🙂
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This was our first time to attend this wine event though this is already the fourth year. Thank you Trickie for inviting us
Organized by Straits Wine Company, owned by Anton Periquet, Bien Tan, Mike Zalamea and Johnny Escaler, with the help of Trickie Lopa
There were 27 wineries and more than 100 labels to taste during the event!
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Leaving from Oviedo on the way to Santiago, we had lunch in La Maquina
I don’t really eat Fabada but the white asparagus were so good!!
Fabada, their specialty, which everyone enjoyed!
And wow, the BEST Arroz con leche I have ever tried!
In the parking lot, an interesting wall made out of wine bottles!
Driving towards our next destination from Oviedo, we stopped by to see this amazing natural wonder!
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