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Jammin’ For Help

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Concert for a cause!! Thank you to one of the organizers, Tere del Rosario for always being so giving and always thinking of others.  For working for others and for always making a difference!  Thank you to White Space, Tita Monique Villongco, for giving the venue for free and for Lea and Gerard Salonga for immediately agreeing to perform for a cause.  Hope you can support this cause by buying tickets and HELPING Maring flood victims!

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Replay Fall Winter 2013

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Rest House in Tagaytay By Ed Ledesma and Antonio Mendoza

By | Homes and Interiors, Travel | 3 Comments

I have been hearing that Randy had a beautiful house in Tagaytay and we have been planning to visit but it just never happened for a long time.  When someone tells you it’s so nice, you have very high expectations and we did!  But when we got there, everything exceeded more than our expectations!!!  WHAT A BEAUTIFUL HOUSE!!!  After our visit, we wanted to suddenly have a Tagaytay home! 🙂  But only in our dreams 🙂

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Featured in The Tropical House

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and Cover and featured in Philippine Tatler Interiors 

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Our hosts – Randy and Candy

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You will see a lot of African art and accessories which Randy bought in his trip to Africa

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Elevator which actually came in handy for Candy who is pregnant at the moment

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As I turned left – I was floored by the stuffed polar bears!!!! I thought I was in the Museum of Natural History! They came from Canada

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Go down the stairs and look right!!!  You have the whole view of the lake and the Taal volcano!!  

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Fire place

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You know who is the boss here in the house!!! Cute how those giant stuffed toys fit in so well in the living room 

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Little Sebi

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The view!!!

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Going into the kitchen

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Spa room

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Home office of Randy’s dad

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Love the stuffed animals!!

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By the garden is the guest house which has two rooms!  Randy invited us to stay but we decided to just stay for the day

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Second room

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View from the guest house

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View looking up from the deck

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The rooms upstairs – This was a room that they turned into a den

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Opposite side are the rooms

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Master bedroom

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and three other bedrooms for the two children and one room for the grand kids ( no photos ) 

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Randy and Candy’s room

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Love the lip chair 🙂

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Some night shots before we left

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Japanese Rice Recipe by Chef Randy

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Chef Randy was actually a student at Le Cordon Bleu.  He told us his story where his instructor got mad at him for not being able to chop and cut vegetables correctly – Randy argued that he does not need to do that because he has plenty assistants to help him back home! haha!!!  

He had a different kind of Japanese rice, he put bananas 🙂  I enjoyed watching him cook the fried rice, I asked him to share the recipe with us.  Some of you might like this style of Japanese rice, it gives it a bit of sweetness and makes it more wet and sticky. I hope i described it correctly 🙂  Or you can just do without the banana

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And lots of crispy beef fat 🙂

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And the SECRET SAUCE!  If you ask me, This is the one that is more important than the banana 🙂 This is also one of the sauces for the steak which was in the sauce container

 

From Randy: 1 part soy sauce and wine. Half mirin. Lots of onions, and a few cloves of garlic.

Bring to boil, and blend. For the cooking, just blend it with butter

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And this other secret sauce!  It’s the Benihana Hot Mustard Sauce.  Randy told me to just google this 🙂
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For me! Tutong 🙂
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22 Prime at Discovery Suites

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Teppanyaki Dinner by Chef Randy

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We visited Randy and Candy in their home in Tagaytay!  

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What a beautiful view from their home!!!

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Going down to the deck

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Sneak peek of the beautiful house!!!

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What a blessing to be able to experience this! Thank you Randy and Candy for inviting us over

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Teppanyaki dinner!!!  Amazing!! They had their own teppanyaki table

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Ingredients all prepared

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Our gracious host and chef, Chef Randy!!!  I love it!!  Another blessing!  I love it when friends cook for us! 

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Oh gosh!!! YUM! 🙂

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Here it is being fried and made crispy 🙂

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for the Japanese fried rice 🙂

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I asked this from Randy!  I love tutong 🙂  He likes it too so we split the stash 🙂

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Secret sauces 🙂 which were really yummy!!

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Chicken teppanyaki!  SARAP!

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Shrimp

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And beef! WOW!!!  What an amazing dinner!! Thank you Chef Randy, dear friend!

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And Candy prepared dessert!  

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Pavlova with Homemade fresh fruit salad! YUM! 

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Breakfast at Antonio’s

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After going to Tagaytay for the day on Saturday, we went back again on Sunday!  Just for breakfast!  We are loving Tagaytay! 🙂 

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What an extensive menu for breakfast!!
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We only had an omelette to share as we were rushing – but wow, this is one of the best omelettes I have ever tried.  An omelette is an omelette but I really liked this one.  I also liked the crispy hash brown that went with it on the sidebreakfast-at-antonios-24.JPG
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Click below to go to their website

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