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Hong Kong Roast Now Open in Jupiter Street

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Hong Kong Roast is much closer now!!!  Now open at Jupiter street!

Previous entry:  Hong Kong Roast August 8, 2011 

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You have to go down the stairs 

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I had the fried porkchop with shallot rice lunch special for only P 170.00 and it came with a drink already.  Love the shallot rice!  Must have the shallot rice with all your dishes at Hong Kong Roast 🙂 

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 Very easy to order for take out or delivery!

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Gourmet at Gourmet Garage

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Aside from the dining, there is the gourmet shopping!!!! at Gourmet Garage

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Wow!!! Pasta from Italy!!!  You can find only at Gourmet Garage.  My favorite is the Tartufo and the Porcini

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Maltesers and Galaxy hot chocolate!!!!!! Horlicks drink and Cadbury chocolate spread!!! I BOUGHT ALL!!

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ICE CREAMS!!!!!

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My sister stressed to me that the best tomato sauce from Italy – CIRIO!!! I bought and made into pasta sauce! REALLY GOOD!!

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Olive Oil with Truffle!!!

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Truffle salt!!!

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Indian items!

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Gourmet accessories

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Of course i eyed the cheese ones!

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Oh my gosh!!!!!!! DAIM and TWIX FINO!!!!

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CRUNCHIE ROCKS???  WOW!!!

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Of course the BEST KETTLE CHIPS IN TOWN is here too 🙂 

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We all went shopping before leaving for Manila!!! 

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Gourmet Garage Now Open in Subic

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Now open at Subic!!!!!  Finally a gourmet place to go to aside of course from the very complete Royal Subic!!  I love going to Subic and enjoying the treats in Royal and now Gourmet Garage.gourmet-garage-in-subic-01.jpeg

  It is located beside Starbucks in the main intersection.  There is a Salon on top and a Ton Ton massage in the corner 

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This is Mom’s new baby!  So that is her there in the logo as the chef 🙂   

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You can dine and you can shop!   

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Cute place 

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With cute placemats which Mom bought from her travels abroad 

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Love the aprons which Mom bought all the way from Provence! 

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So cute!  Two of Mom’s bestfriends came over to have their traditional breakfast ALL THE WAY IN SUBIC!!  Of course to support also Mom.  What good friends they are! 

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Tita Reg is in charge of the dining – she made all the recipes and trained all the staff.  She prepared for us brunch – some items from the menu and some from the store 

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The store just opened a few weeks ago and is still on a dry run  

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Cecillia’s Fritata 

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Solo Mio 

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Julian’s Fritata 

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Mixta Regina and Mandarina 

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Cesare 

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And here at Gourmet Garage, you can order your favorite Starbucks drink and they will bring it to you while you have your meal ( after all it is just next door ) 

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Panini Carmencita ( named after Mom? )  

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And at Gourmet Garage- you can buy anything in the store and they will prepare it, cook it and serve it to you- so we did that! 

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Inagiku Lunch

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This is a long delayed post, as you can see, this was taken sometime before Chinese New Year!  My friend, Grace, invited me over for lunch at Shangri-la Hotel Makati where she hangs out a lot – gym, lunch, gym, celebrations in the ballroom, gym, dinner, gym 🙂  She’s a regular here so I guess she asked me to come over to her home 🙂

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F&B Manager even came to check on us

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My lunch 🙂 

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Grace’s lunch 

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Forque

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Congratulations to Bea Muñoz on the opening of her new restaurant!!!

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If you watched Pinoy Dream Academy a few years ago, you will recognize Bea as one of the contestants 🙂  She is so pretty!  Apparently she is also a chef and loves to cook!!!

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Come and try Forque and see what Bea has to offer!

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Forque is a European comfort food restaurant that will allow you to acquaint yourselves with different dishes from different cuisines in Europe that will surely satisfy your pallete. 

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Of course Bea is so pretty, because she is the sister of my good friends, Trina! and  Tisa who is not in the photo.  I kept insisting that we eat here so finally Trina and Paolo took us so we could try it out

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The gang 🙂  that we love.  We missed our yearly Valentine dinner – for some reason this year is just going by so fast!!

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Trina and Bea’s cousins supporting and having dinner as well

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Taking a peek at the kitchen

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Classic Onion Soup

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Angulas

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Brushetta Three Ways

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Crispy Calamares

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Oyster Festival

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Foie Gras Salad – YUM! I liked it since the foie was sliced thin

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Forque’s Roast beef- All three guys ordered this

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Filet Mignon

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Filetto de Manzo

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This was on the other table – so we just took a photo! Looks so good!!!!!! One of their specialties!

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Chicken Ala Kiev Puff

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Loved all the desserts

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Banana Split

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Tiramisu

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Forque’s Special – it had popcorn on it 🙂

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Kid friendly 🙂

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Newton reliving high school days as a DJ 🙂

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The only brother in the family, Manolet – singing and jamming 🙂

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PLEASE CALL 8368230 for RESERVATIONS

 

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Breakfast at the Peninsula Hotel

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We were jet lagged when we arrived from New York and we were awake at 4am!  We decided to have breakfast at the Manila Peninsula as we figured hotels would be open 24 hours!  We were the only ones in the hotel at that time! 🙂

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We arrived a few days before Easter which explains the decoration in the lobby

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Mom wanted the Japanese breakfast but they said that the Japanese chef has not yet reported to work. Hmmm…  So she had the Filipino Breakfast

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James had his favorite Eggs benedict after having all the eggs benedict during the trip!  breakfast-at-the-pen-011.jpg

Organic Lunch at the Bohol Bee Farm

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And this is one of the main reasons we love the Bee Farm – an Organic lunch!  It’s exactly the same since five years ago- it has never changed and It’s still very popular and I love it!! This is a new area if I am not mistaken because where we ate before was a small dining room

Previous entry:  Bohol Bee Farm Dec 9, 2007 

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Our buffet table with a beautiful view of the water

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They make their cone out of cassava!

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Click below to go to their website for more information

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Lunch at Philippe Tarsier Botanika

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We had lunch at Philippe Tarsier.  They set up a tent by the garden.  It was really hot.  I really suggest you go for late afternoon merienda or dinner unless you eat indoors in their cafe

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It was near Easter so they did an Easter set up 🙂

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When it’s hot, there is always an excuse to go indoors in the air-conditioning and shop! 🙂

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