I am so happy to see Tita Thelma San Juan, Lifestyle Editor of the Philippine Daily Inquirer.  Since I was a kid, my Mom would always tell me that she’s the big boss 🙂  Tita Thelma started with PDI since 1994 til 1999 when she moved to ABS CBN Publishing full time as the General Manager and Editorial Director and pioneered the magazine industry with Ernie Lopez.  The first was Metro Magazine and from there many others were born.  In 2008 she went back to PDI and now also has a magazine which she started 3 years ago called Cocoon.  Amazing woman and I am so honoured to be having lunch with her 🙂  

We had lunch in Apt 1B in Rockwell

Love these 6 TV monitors with looping images of flowers

French Onion Soup

Crab Cakes

Vongole

Frozen Chocolate Pie

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It’s just so much easier to call Chef Booj to cater 🙂  We love Chef Booj!  We first met him when he was a consultant in Eskaya resort in Bohol.   After that the family liked him so we got him to cater for M Catering when he was partners with Chef Ed Quimson

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Sunday family lunch 🙂  

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We went to Alphaland to try out Sakura by Edo San.  This is supposedly for members only but if you call Chef Edo San he will accommodate you 

Chef Edo San who is half Filipino ( Ilonggo ) and half Japanese

What looked like a centrepiece was actually Japanese Popcorn which you can eat

Edo San Maki

Uni

I love the presentation with the fish bowl under and a goldfish swimming in it!!

Aburi anything here is so yummy! Aburi Uni

Aburi Unagi

Special beef from Japan – Japanese Miyasaki Beef- supposedly even higher quality than Kobe beef.  Chef Edo San made sure I took a photo of the beef uncooked to see the marbling

Birthday Cake- Sushi Pizza for the birthday celebrant, James

 We actually went to the branch in Alphaland Southgate Tower in Pasong Tamo before going to the newer one, Chef Edo San invited us to try the new place since he had complete ingredients there including sashimi that comes fresh.  So this was our first visit 

Chef Edo San was also there

I like the place though it can get a bit stuffy and smoky because of the cooking being done and the private room feels deteriorated 

All the Aburi sushi were really good!!!  Hotate/Scallops

Unagi

Salmon Aburi

Aburi Anago

Beef Usuyaki

I loved this presentation and also the taste 🙂  Dynamite Maki

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