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Dinner at the Aman Villa by Chef Miguel Pengson

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Each Villa has it’s own kitchen that is air-conditioned ( take note 🙂 )

Our chefs!  We were so lucky!  And you will see soon how we ate so well 🙂 

The hired private chef of the villa is Chef Miguel but sometimes other chefs help each other when they are not busy in their own villas.  

Normally you are not allowed to bring food to the resort, but if you own a villa, you can bring food and ingredients to consume.  Since we were overweight we had to prioritize the ingredients for dinner that day

 Living room beside the dining room

It was so nice to come home to a wonderful dinner!  I could stay here forever 🙂  

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Duck Consomme with Foie Gras Dumpling

Rocket Arugula with Davao Blue Cheese, Walnuts and Dried Blueberries in Citrus Dressing – Raffy and Carmina brought the cheese from Malagos

We contributed the Bryan Flannery rib eyes – Grilled Rib Eye with creamed spinach, wasabi mash and roasted tomatoes – the wasabi mash was so good!!

Plus one Bryan Flannery dry Aged Porterhouse which was really really good

Liquid Chocolate Cake with Coconut Ice Cream  

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The gang!  We stayed here for four hours! Just eating and talking and eating and munching 🙂

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Don Papa made it to the first trip! 🙂

In this villa there is an organic garden!  I took day shots so it would be clearer.  This is right beside the kitchen and the staff quarters

Menus for Villa Dining

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Happy Birthday Iya

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Happy Birthday Christina!! I watched this girl grow up for almost 20 years!  She has had a few names since then – Chrissy and now Iya but I cannot seem to get used to calling her Iya

Christina is the daughter of one of my good friends, and one of our most loyal managers, Brenda, who has been working with the family

Chrissy celebrated with her close friends and family

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at Persian Restaurant in Magallanes

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Plus yummy Golden Spoon for dessert:-)

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A cute giveaway which is a scent which she created – she wants to one day have her line of beauty products and fragrances

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 A very strong lady – a go getter!  She told me a long time ago that she wanted to be a model – she was still in high school then 

Previous entry:

Mariza, Mig, Nic and Iya April 28, 2009 

Iya for U Swim January 25, 2010 

 Several years later, she has had many modelling jobs and ads 

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Most recent shoot by Dix Perez.  Christina can have many looks!

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Her other latest is for Bioessence- Way to go Christina!!

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She even has her own Vlog – first time for me to hear about a VLOG – video blogs 🙂  Click below to go to her YouTube Vlog

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Sunday Lunch Spreads

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As I am posting photos of our Sunday lunch on instagram

 So many others are posting theirs 🙂  I love it!  

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From the Facebook of Chris Tordesillas

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From Victoria Carlos in Facebook

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From Mich Aurallo

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From Pria Solon Chiongbian in Facebook

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From Via 

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Taipan at Tower Club Philamlife Building

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I wanted to spend time one on one with my friend, Margie, so I invited her to lunch!  She was so busy singing and being sung to during her birthday 🙂  I wanted to catch up with her

Previous entry:  Margie’s 50th Birthday April 21, 2013 

 I was eating this while waiting for her since she insisted that Tower Club was in RCBC Plaza.  She was arguing with the people there and saying that Tower Club was on the top floor 🙂  Hilarious as usual

I was checking out the menus

This looked interesting, I chose two dishes from this menu

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Deep Fried Shredded Garoupa with Strawberry – I just realized now that as I am writing this, the fish was not shredded. hmmmm….But anyway I always like trying unique dishes so I ordered this rather than the usual sweet and sour pork or Lemon chicken

I subconsciously like dishes that are fried!  Crispy wrapper with Mango and Scallops 

Margie on the other hand just wanted Dimsum so she ordered three dishes

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Steamed Chicken feet which I did not touch 🙂 but is one of her favorites

Deep Fried Mashed Taro dumplings with seafood

Tofu Skin roll which was not on the menu but she managed to charm the waiter to have the chef make it and he did 🙂

As usual I was entertained by Margie.  She said the venue was very “STIP” ( stiff )  that is why she could not talk so loud and laugh aloud 🙂  But I am happy to get to know more of her everytime we meet    

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I am amazed how she can be a mother of 4 boys!  I have only two and it’s driving me crazy 🙂

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Oops, I forgot the 5th boy in Margie’s life! 🙂  

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Tommy’s Coffee and Shophouse 8483

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Heart2Heart is discovering this area little by little – Barangay Poblacion.  Who knows this may one day become like Soho 🙂  

Thank you to Mia Villanueva for inviting me over to your place  

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 Mia has been selling bags in bazaars and now she has a new home for her bags so people can come over anytime to see her collection

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 At the same time, her husband, Tommy, has a little coffeeshop where you can relax and have coffee and snacks

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 This is my favourite!! The Belgian lace cookies!!  P185.00 only for this pack and it is so fresh and crispy 🙂  

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 Super enjoyed the Bowl of chili!!! and all the sandwiches 

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Mia please bottle this chili and I will buy 🙂 Let me know!

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Chicken Asparagus

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Spinach Artichoke Dip

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Roasted Veggies

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Reuben

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 Go upstairs for more shopping

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 Shophouse 8483 where many others have banded together to create a boutique housing all their lines 

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 Tessa Gomez Coscolluela’s Travel Essentials

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  Violet Vine – designed by the ex-owner of Mosaic, Anne Marie Saguil

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 And Olive and Slate by Carmen Romualdez-Santos, Lindy Enrie-Roxas and Yvonne Manahan Camacho

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 The Souq Organics

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Escentials

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 Karma Athletics of Vina Concepcion Monasterio

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Wrong Ramen

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We heard about this place from our nephew, Ramon.  So I once again accompanied my two Ramen boys to check it out

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We arrived at around 615pm so there were very few people

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Funny 🙂  

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 We went up the stairs since it was almost fully occupied on the ground floor – cute Darth Vader in the corner of the steps

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A Starbucks poster

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Seating upstairs- communal seating in the restaurant both up and down 

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but those dividers can be removed in case you are more than 2

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The toilet 🙂  

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Love this sign 🙂

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More posters

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Salt and pepper shakers!

Previous entry:  Salt and Pepper March 21, 2013

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Pure & Clean plate 🙂

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Korean rice milk

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The menu which is only one page

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The Ramen boys ordered from here

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FU ramen! haha!!  I want to try that next time because it has cheese!  What an interesting kind of ramen!  

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Tonkotsu Rich – broth was a bit too thick for James so he said he will try the light next time when we come back 

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Tantanmen for Javier

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Side dish of Chasu slices

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And I ordered from here!  I was so happy I loved everything non-ramen!!! I wish I could try all!

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Love love this Bacon Cheese Katsu!  Will also try to make it at home!  Bacon then cheese then bacon then breaded and fried 🙂

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Tofu katsu

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The first ramen place we went to that did not have gyoza 🙂  They had no side dish of rice, so next time I am bringing my rice to have with the crispy pata and katsu dishes 🙂  

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Runny Egg

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 Super loved their one and only dessert – Poop of the Gods! Funny name but yummy!! 

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Mr. Bean

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I visited Alabang Towncenter and went to their new wing – The Garden Wing.  There is a Starbucks as well in this area!

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I came over to visit Mr. Bean!

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No not that Mr. Bean but this Mr. Bean 🙂  

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I have not heard of this though they had opened since last April 2012 – this store.  They have expanded to Eastwood Mall, Lucky Chinatown Mall and soon in Mc Kinley Hills.  I can’t wait for the Makati branch to open!  Mr. Bean is a franchise from Singapore.  18 years ago found by two college friends who developed a machine that could make soya milk quickly and efficiently.  Their first stall was in People’s park Hawker Center.  They now have 50 stores in Singapore and are available already in Japan, Korea, China and Malaysia  

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I met the owner of Mr. Bean there – Anne Tan King.  She is the cousin of Donna and Diana of Sariwon.  This is the second generation of the Jollibee family and they are now starting new franchises.  I love these young ladies – they are all so humble and so so nice!  Anne told me that they are all owners but each one handles each franchise separately so that there will be no conflict in management though they have board meetings regularly to monitor their businesses as a team.  I admire them and I hope they can continue this. 

Previous entry:  Sariwon Korean Barbeque April 26, 2012

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Life’s Simple Pleasures!

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I am not really a taho or soy milk person, but after trying Mr. Bean, I am now converted!  I love Soy – anything soy 🙂 atleast from Mr. Bean

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I tried almost everything on the menu!  Anne served me their bestsellers

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Of course the basic CLASSIC soya milk chilled for me since its summer 🙂  

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All the products are made fresh daily and once it reaches a certain period of expiry – they dispose it and make a fresh batch.  They have a machine behind in their backroom which processes the soy beans.  All the soy beans are imported from Malaysia

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Then I tried the Icy Lychee! I loved it because of the lychee pop which was in the drink! Instead of the usual sago balls its a lychee pop which literally pops in your mouth!  

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Then I got to try the watermelon which was for me something I would order because they use fresh fruit.  In the menu there is a FRESH FRUIT SOY drink section – those are all fresh fruits mixed with soy milk.  I would recommend those for health reasons 

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And then the taho!  Anne told me they had to change the wording of the menu so that our countrymen could identify with taho! 🙂  

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I took home some of these and my boys loved it!! They are the real taho eaters!  This is how it comes in so it is easy to take home.  I feel safer buying these rather than through vendors in the street in terms of safety and sanitary reasons.  No offense to the vendors because we do want to support them too

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You can add sugar to your soy products, you have to specify your sweetness level 🙂 Love this feature!

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Oh my gosh!  I liked this next one – mostly because of that peanut rice ball!!!  I like to order only the rice ball! 🙂  It reminds me of a mochi or a buchi in a chinese restaurant!!

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You cannot see it when it gets to you, you have to scoop it out 🙂

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Another yummy product!!!! Pancakes!!

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 Reminds me of those Japanese pancakes

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Of course I liked the one with cheese inside!!! 

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 Then there is soy ice cream! Yummy!!!!

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Thank you Anne for this cute Mr. Bean stuffed toy – definitely cuter than Mr. Bean up there 🙂  This will soon be available for sale as customers have been requesting for this

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A heart in his behind 🙂

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