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Japanese Sunday Lunch

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Yummy Japanese lunch prepared by Gerry and Tina!  Of course everything is in theme including the table setting 🙂 

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Yum! Love this Japanese cheese snack!!!

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Missing Lew for lunch, but he is with us in spirit ……Ria texting Lew in this photo 🙂

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Wow!  Japanese dressings galore – Take your pick! 🙂   

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 And the main dishes

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Plus Cebu lechon from Allan and Margie!!! THANK YOU!!  

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Tina preparing her homemade desserts 

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Treating Lola at Her Restaurant

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Daddy treated his Mom ( our Lola ) to dinner in her restaurant 🙂  

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Of course Lola insists that she treats all of us instead – after all it’s her restaurant 🙂  but Daddy did not let her 🙂

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Lola likes the California maki

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So cute, my Dad feeding Lola and making sure she eats 

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Spicy tuna maki – Yum

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This is the only Japanese restaurant where we order pizza!  THE BEST!

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Margarita

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Four Cheese

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Gamberi

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Sukiyaki

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After eating one California Maki, Lola did not want to eat anymore, so Dad ate the rest of it and ordered another dish for her- Unagi

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Unagi Foie Gras

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This was my order- Parmesan crusted Scallops – Yum!!

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Lola likes chocolate ice cream so they got Gelatissimo

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 Yummy Date and Toffee pudding

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So sweet!  I love these moments

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So nice to see Tito Richie there too!  🙂

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Serendra Piazza

Taguig, Metro Manila, Philippines

Phone Number (+63 2) 856-0718, (+63 2) 818-0209

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Salt from Dasol

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Thank you Jay and Carmen for the christmas gift of Salt 🙂 We always receive unique gifts from Jay and Carmen.  They obviously take the effort to make something special – the packaging, sharing some information on the salts.  And Heart2Heart likes it because it supports our very own Philippine products

Previous entry:  Handcrafted Candy Dispenser June 20,2011 

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This year we got salt again from them – Love the packaging as well

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And from my friend, Arlene Maslog

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Manila Golf Golden Tee 2013

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You know Valentine’s Day is approaching whenever my husband and my brother are out together playing golf at the Annual Golden Tee Tournament

Previous Entry:  Manila Golf Golden Tee March 16, 2012 

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And we celebrate Valentine’s Day dinner here 🙂

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Every year, everyone hopes to win the grand prize and you have to be present during the raffle draw or else you are disqualified – it’s a good way to keep people together till the end of the dinner and awarding 🙂

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We were so happy to sit with our cousin, Martin and enjoyed getting to know his wife, Joy

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The team!

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Photo with the Champion!

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A delicious dinner by Gaita Fores – Cibo!  The best meal we have had so far at the Golden Tee

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Thanks to Board Member and brother in law, Tammy Campos for helping organize a great evening!

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Elegant entertainment with broadway songs from Pinky Marquez

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Awarding and raffle

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Tito Richie Garcia is always a winner!

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And now the Overall Champion!  JP Reyes!  Congratulations JP!!!

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God Bless Francisco

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Congratulations to our dear dear friends – Jose and Tin- on your third blessing – Francisco!!

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So adorable!!!

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The growing family!!

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Catered by M Cuisine of Chef Ed Quimson.  This was the most recent catering we had witnessed from Chef Ed – It was very very good!baptism-of-jose-luis-francisco-moreno-03.jpgbaptism-of-jose-luis-francisco-moreno-025.jpgbaptism-of-jose-luis-francisco-moreno-09.jpgbaptism-of-jose-luis-francisco-moreno-010.jpgbaptism-of-jose-luis-francisco-moreno-011.jpgbaptism-of-jose-luis-francisco-moreno-012.jpgbaptism-of-jose-luis-francisco-moreno-013.jpgbaptism-of-jose-luis-francisco-moreno-036.jpgbaptism-of-jose-luis-francisco-moreno-014.jpgbaptism-of-jose-luis-francisco-moreno-015.jpgbaptism-of-jose-luis-francisco-moreno-016.jpgbaptism-of-jose-luis-francisco-moreno-017.jpgbaptism-of-jose-luis-francisco-moreno-018.jpgbaptism-of-jose-luis-francisco-moreno-019.jpg

Pepitas lechon!!  With Truffle rice stuffing – French Lechonbaptism-of-jose-luis-francisco-moreno-020.jpgbaptism-of-jose-luis-francisco-moreno-035.jpg

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Salted Caramel cake by Mara dela Rama Pobletebaptism-of-jose-luis-francisco-moreno-07.jpgbaptism-of-jose-luis-francisco-moreno-08.jpg

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Shalizaar Persian Cuisine

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We are so lucky we have a very efficient concierge, our friend Pepe 🙂  We asked him to look for a Persian restaurant for us in the area and he found one for us!! And we loved it!!!  

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Nice bread basket

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You put the mint leaves, radish, walnuts and feta cheese inside the pita bread and roll and eat

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A yogurt drink, Doogh, which James was hoping to taste like lassi but it was different – not sweet- it was yogurt with soda, mint and pepper 

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It’s a different menu from the Persian we expected – they did not have hummus 🙂

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Lentil soup of Pepe which he said was very good

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Mast – homemade yogurt

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Mirza Ghasemi which we figured was Misa Kasemi which we order here in Manila – and it was! YUM!  Good thing they had this

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Koobideh for me which was a lot!  I could eat only half of one stick but can eat almost all that rice! haha – good thing I have two boys with me to eat the rest

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Barreh which was Lamb – ordered by Pepe- very good too!

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Barg which is filet mignon – which the boys liked the best among all

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Click below to go to their website for more information

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IHOP California

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We were hearing about the IHOP craze in Manila, so James said he wanted to try it before going home so he can compare the two

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We ordered the Pancake Combo

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I like it that the syrups are all on the table and lots of choices too

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This came first and it was okay

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And then James chose Chocolate Chip pancake

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They did not give us whipped butter so I asked for some – I do not know if it is a Pancake House thing only- but I want my pancakes with whipped butter 🙂  We hope to get to try IHOP in Manila soon and be able to compare our experience

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Straits Singaporean Restaurant in Burlingame

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For Sunday lunch, Pepe took us to this Singaporean restaurant in Burlingame which we loved!! Thank you Pepe!!    

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Saw a few capiz lamps in the place 🙂

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My dates for Sunday lunch

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Wow, this looked good!

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But we ordered from the main menu

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Strait Frites – me and my sides 🙂  cute presentation – loved the dips that came with it

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Beef Rendang recommended by our server – YUM!!!!! That Pandan bread ( green thing ) was really good!

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Pepe did not order salad but he ordered a healthy dish- Origami sea bass 

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Crispy Hainan Chicken for US$ 15.00 not bad!  I also wanted to try a crispy version hainanese chicken …..wishing there were more crispy skin on top 🙂

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Click below to go to their website

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BJs

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Spent a day with my good friend Triccie.  She took me shopping so we did not want to spend too much time eating haha!  So we ate as soon as we saw an eating place near where we were shopping.  This is BJs the restaurant and not the warehouse club 🙂

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Here’s my pretty friend 🙂

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And yes she ordered salad too!  🙂

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I had my buffalo wings!  

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I tried it differently by ordering the boneless wings – but it tasted like chicken tenders – so maybe best to just order the regular wings

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Triccie says they make their own beer – so I took a photo of the menu since I do not really drink beer 🙂

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These look good!!

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