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 Another new experience for Heart2Heart and loved it!!!  Mott 32 in the Standard Chartered Building.  In the lobby, you will see this and you will have to go down a long escalator

Then you arrive here and have to go down maybe another 3 flight of stairs. So you can imaging being underground!  🙂

 Was it previously a vault?  or a bomb shelter?  

Super love the interiors of this place!!!!

There are two private rooms here and in each are chandeliers on the ceiling!!!  Around 6 to 9 of them all unique!!  How creative!  I love out of the box ideas 🙂

Barbecue Prime Iberico Pork with Yellow Mountain Honey

 Deep Fried diced Cod Fillet, Golden Garlic, Spiced Salt

 Dry Fried Squid, Sweet Chili and Lime Zest Sauce

 Signature Crispy Coated BBQ Spanish Teruel Pork Bun – We are trying all the BBQ pork buns!!!  I like this too!!! 

Kurobuta pork, Crab and Caviar Shanghainese Soup Dumpling

Sticky Black Cod with Crispy Ginger

Grilled Japanese Kobe Beef A5 + with Lime Salt and Black Pepper

 Applewood Roasted Peking Duck 

The back of the skin!! Oh my! 

 Fire Roasted Suckling pig

 Crispy Roasted Pork Belly
 Fried Rice with Crab Meat, Conpoy and Egg white, Flying Fish roe

Black Sesame Ice Cream- YUM! Everything yum!

Egg Tart

Sugar Coated Custard Bun – same bun as the BBQ pork bun but inside is custard – YUM!

 The toilet

 Beautiful Wallpaper which had embroidery and flowers 

 This room is also so nice, I could not take photos inside because it was full but there were paintbrushes hanging on the sides of the tables!  

 The Chef 🙂  Who said goodbye to us on our way out

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Mobile deposit – check deposit just by taking a photo and sending it

 The Peninsula Hotel NYC in 5th Avenue has  a Halloween car!!  A Mini Cooper 🙂 

 Love this wall in Le Pain Quotidien

 Park Hyatt New York is located in the heart of midtown at 153 West 57th street between Avenue of the Americas and Seventh Avenue, across from Carnegie Hall and a short stroll from Central Park. The hotel, designed by world-renowned, Pritzker Prize-winning architect Christian de Portzamparc, features 210 generously sized guest rooms including 92 suites, designed by Yabu Pushelberg. The state-of-the-art guest rooms are among the largest in the city, starting from 475 square feet or 44 square meters.  The hotel is part of a 90-story mixed-use tower ( One 53 )  that features 94 Thomas Juul-Hansen-designed luxury spaces with breathtaking views of Central Park and the New York skyline. 

 Stack Bower’s  ATM machine in 57th street which dispenses gold bars and gold coins!  A 10 gram gold bar at US$ 470.00 and a 1 oz. gold bar costing US$ 1,272.00  The prices are updated every 60 seconds and are realtime prices.  Accepts only cash

Love the Halloween set up in our building

I am always looking out for the Limited Time Only Pringles flavour.   White Chocolate!

 432 Park Avenue. With 104 condominium apartments and a height of 1,396 ft, it is the third tallest building in the United States, and one of the tallest residential buildings in the world. It is the second tallest building in Manhattan, behind One World Trade Center. When measured by roof height 432 Park Avenue is the tallest building in New York. Designed by Rafael Viñoly around what is described as “the purest geometric form: the square,” The tower’s condominium units will range from a 351-square-foot (32.6 m2) studio to a six-bedroom, seven-bath penthouse with a library, already under agreement for $95 million. (Fr Wiki) 

 Lotto Jackpot!!

Everyone who goes to New York takes a photo of the Flat Iron building. So I will post something else .  The Lipstick building 885 Third Avenue (at 53rd Street) Philip Johnson and John Burgee 1986

The Lipstick Building is Johnson’s second postmodern contribution to the Manhattan skyline, following his nearby AT&T Building two years earlier. This time the unusual shape, which has given the building its nickname, was a requirement of the developer, to make the building stand out and compensate for the less fashionable location of Third Avenue. The elliptical shape also claims to make all the exterior offices “corner” offices

 Before even Din Tai Fung existed, we already loved Xiao long bao.  In NYC we go to Joe’s Shanghai for the crab meat Xiao long boa.  If you’re walking on 5th Avenue and craving for these dumplings it’s very near – 24 West 56th street ( bet 5th and 6th Ave )

 Our concierge in the building we stay in in NYC, Raymond. He super duper looks like Conan O’Brien! He gained weight so it’s not exact but a few years ago he was the same exact lookalike.  Raymond started as a porter, then became doorman til they promoted him as the Concierge. He was the youngest concierge in the building but they knew he could do the job. He’s been in the building for 19 years already. His daughter was only 3 months old when he started working here and now she’s second year college! 

 Cookie Dough Oreo!!!  

 Coca Cola Life – Sweetened with Cane Sugar and Stevia 

 While travelling, I like Naked Juice Green Machine as my green smoothie

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Jerome took us out to dinner, and we always look forward to this 🙂  This trip he took us to Marta, the latest restaurant concept of Danny Meyer at the Martha Washington Hotel.  It’s very hard to make a reservation and we were lucky to get one

 Rustic thin crust Roman pizzas!!!

We sat right in front of the brick ovens 🙂

Our host and good friend, Jerome 🙂  Thank you for this wonderful experience!!

 LOVE!

A simple one page menu!

Insalata Verde! YUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 Polpettine di Coniglio

Frito Misto di Mare

 There are so many pizza places opening left and right and you would think how else can you make a pizza?  Well, the pizzas we had here were so  unique and so yummy!!!!!  At Marta there are two sections Pizze Rosse ( red) and there is Pizze Bianche ( white).  Not many places have white pizzas and I am so happy there is just as many white pizzas here as reds 🙂  We did not try all but this pizza was so so good!! I love thin pizza!!!  Patate Alla Carbonara – potatoes, guanciale, black pepper, pecorino and egg.  It looks rich but you don’t feel too heavy after having it

 Coppa Cotta – YUM!!!!!! 

Salsiccia!!  SUPER YUM also!!!

In between pizza and dessert, Jerome and Caloy spotted Danny Meyer!!!!! I was following him and I was so glad he went nearer to our table.   I made sure I called his attention to take a photo!!!!!  Of all the times to not have my camera!!!!  So this is a phone photo! I hope to see him again one day, hopefully in the Philippines with a Shake Shack branch!!!  Danny Meyer if the owner and founder of Shake Shack  He owns theUnion Square Hospitality group ( USHG) which include Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern, The Modern, Cafe 2 and Terrace 5 ( located at the MOMA ), Matalino, Untitled at the Whitney, North End Grill and of course Marta!

 Ice Cream Panino!!! SUPER YUM!!!

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There are quite a lot of people in Boracay so its hard to get a shot like this 🙂 

Some foreigners doing a head stand 🙂

A guy making a sculpture for a resto- Dad’s type of thing

Later on they were two already

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Sails at night

Sails during the day

We were just thinking of Jigger and guess who be bumped into in Discovery Shores? 🙂  

Gina, Diego and Noel Lorenzana were there too 🙂  Always in good company at Discovery Shores

Love this grotto

More grottos on the island

The most maPR kid on the island, Franchesco.  He even waived goodbye to me when he was leaving. Super cute!

Starbucks!!  Only a few places on the island have aircon. Starbucks has 🙂

Happy recommends this place Dos Mestizos for Spanish food – We will try this next time

Nice! 🙂 

Bonsai

I want to do this! 🙂

Selfie sticks and waterproof holders for cameras. It’s cheap but Be careful because if the selfie stick is defective you can drop your phone or camera and same with the waterproof case – breaking your camera is more expensive than the selfie stick or the waterproof bag

For Jay Aldeguer 🙂  Cute spot to have a photo 🙂  

 Cute souvenirs.  Personalized silver accessories 

Love these! Theres only one shop that has all of these in D’Mall

Personalized keychains – hand painted by the guys there 

 A must 🙂  They have a new location near D’Mall- walk further down

The Oatmeal cookies are good too

Henna Tatoos

 This is the best tattoo for me ever!

Henna Tatoo of my 14 year old son. Surprised that he chose to put my name One day he will put someone else’s name and I always pray for that someone who will love and take good care of my 2 boys Enjoyed once again our bonding time over the weekend

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It’s our first time to go to Lake Tahoe and I just loved the drive!!! It’s so beautiful!!!!  I am imagining being here during the winter and everything is white and all around you are fresh Christmas trees!!!  

 Rainbow!!!

 These are just parts of a wider view…it’s just so spectacular

James kept telling me to look at the stone mountains

 These are just a few.  We could not stop all the time 

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