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Ganso Shabuway San Mateo

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This post is dedicated to Mike and Reena Aguilar!  

Previous entry:  Ganso Shabuway June 22, 2011 

We love Ganso Shabuway and so we wanted to try the one in the States so we came here 🙂 

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Oh my gosh!!!  What a great deal!  This sign caught our attention!!  🙂

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They have small tables and they have this counter, this is where we sat

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My hungry dinnermates 🙂  Pepe, Dina and James

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We didn’t get the All You can Eat 🙂  We got the Prime Angus and the American Kobe Beef.  YUM!

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Travel Warehouse Inc ( TWI ) Headquarters

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A few weeks ago, we had the chance to visit the office of Travel Warehouse!  This is a photo of their first office thirteen years ago ( since August 1999)  

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Back then, it was started by two good friends, Lani Llamado Dy

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and Nikie Jacinto Lingad 

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Thirteen successful years after 🙂  this is their new office which expanded maybe 8 times bigger!  Wow!! WAY TO GO TRAVEL WAREHOUSE!!!  

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Jaison Yang, the General Manager! 🙂  Jaison has been with Travelwarehouse  for 11 years already.  More power to Travelwarehouse!!

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He now also writes about his travels

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From only 6 staff when they started, they are now 19!  

Sales staff 

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Finance

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James made sure I read this sign on Jaison’s wall! haha!! 🙂

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Travelwarehouse is known for their signature packages

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Make sure to take advantage of them.  Jaison said that the nice thing about these packages is that you are all Filipinos.  This is the latest

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They also have a new website, click below to go and visit and get updates

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Ice Cream is Happiness Condensed

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The kids told us about their favorite ice cream place, so we decided to go and get some before leaving!!!

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Love this 🙂

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Oh my!  Choices choices choices 🙂

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The kids were telling us about this!! Named after Sesame Street’s Cookie Monster!  It does look like the cookie he eats in the show! 🙂

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James of course had a peanut butter flavor- Reese’s Peanut butter cup

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Picture of the owner 🙂

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Visiting Rainier Part 2

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 So so happy we saw Rainier twice!  Now on the way back 🙂 And this time with the kids!  It’s a good thing we waited for them to get back from school so we could see them  

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We are so spoiled by Rainier and Josie!!  We want to do this all the time! 🙂  

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Wow!! Josie prepared all of this for us!! I only requested for ADOBO! 🙂 Thank you for hosting our lunch Rainier!!

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Rainier is such a health buff, he only ate this! A vegetarian dish!

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Rainier is trying to convince us to turn vegetarian, click below a link from Rainier

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Rainier was one of the producers of this Broadway play!

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The beautiful and smart young Reyes ladies 🙂 with Josie who takes care of them all and is part of the family 🙂  

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So happy to see Ral too who came a little later than the girls from school.  We missed Ben who is # 5 and the youngest

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Cosi

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And here is Rainier 🙂 cousin of James and Dina

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Rainier invited us out to try this place

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You enter this hallway which has the menu on the wall

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As usual I am overwhelmed and like everything on the menu 🙂

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At the end of the hallway is the stone oven

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Then the counter and you see the freshly baked breads

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The food was really good!  Heart2Heart loves freshly baked bread/sandwiches 🙂

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For more information, go to their website

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Visiting Rainier

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Road trip! WOOHOO! On the way to dropping off Jaime, we passed by Rainier’s place

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It’s like a cottage in the woods! Beautiful! 🙂

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Josie was so happy to see Jaime!  Josie used to work for my Dad and Mom and now works with Rainier and Barbara

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Recycle 🙂

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Josie takes care of the family which includes 5 adorable kids! 🙂

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They have two pianos in their house because all of them know how to play the piano!

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Snack table with Tita Anita’s prints 🙂

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Josie was so excited to show me two cabinets in their house.  She knew I would get excited! OH MY GOSH!!!!  Well with all the kids at home, they really need a lot of food in stock! 🙂

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Josie baked for us some bacon and cheese cookies!! YUMMY!

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Aquarium 🙂

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So Mon Nan Jip

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Arrived in New Jersey and Jaime requested to eat here!  We drove around 30 minutes from the house to get here! It was worth it 🙂

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Charcoal

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Tongue

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Kalbi

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Chadol Bagey

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