Penang Hill Restaurant
We like our “first” to be memorable. Our first plane ride, our first date, our first day at work… even our first taste of a foreign cuisine. When I chose to eat at Penang Hill at the Promenade in Greenhills over my daughters’ objections who wanted a repeat of our Teriyaki Boy dinner just a [...]
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Dessert and breakfast at Bag of Beans
Rarely do I find a restaurant that looks good by day and by night. And even more rare are restaurants where both the main meal and the dessert are good. In most cases, a restaurant would have a specialty—either one or more of the main entrees OR dessert. Bag of Beans in Tagaytay City has [...]
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Tagaytap trip 2: Looking for the best bulalo in Tagaytay?
The first part of the Tagaytay food trip series was posted last year so this second installment is really long overdue. Reasons are many. I was planning on submitting a Tagaytay feature for the Life & Travel section of Manila Standard Today but the delay in the publication of articles I previously submitted made me [...]
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Bizu Patisserie
My family went to cake heaven. There’s no other way to describe the experience. We love cakes and pastries and we have learned to be very discriminating. Until last night, we were huge fans of Gene Gonzalez’s Cafe Ysabel cakes and the delectable concoctions of Conti’s. We still are, actually. But I have to say [...]
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Rediscovering Baguio (a.k.a. the food trip)
*The following article was published in the Life & Travel section of today’s edition of Manila Standard Today. Don’t know which of the photos made it to print though.
We went on an unexpected trip to Baguio last month. Although I had been planning on going for at least one of the Panagbenga weekends, my husband�s [...]
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Isdaan Restaurant at Gerona, Tarlac
I should have stuck to my policy of NOT eating in a restaurant where the main attraction are fun activities rather than the food. I first learned about Isdaan Restaurant in Gerona, Tarlac from Living Asia Channel. There was an episode where the house specialties were featured and they looked delectable. The narrator raved about [...]
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Teriyaki Boy
Yesterday was the last day of the 2007 World Pyro Olympics. We had been planning on this one-of-a-kind photo opportunity for weeks and, having been advised by friends who have seen the previous events, we wanted to get to the Mall of Asia as early as possible. As things would have it, that just wasn’t [...]
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The Christmas dinner dry run
I have utang. I still haven’t posted the rest of the restaurant reviews from our Tagaytay trip last month. See, my intention was to write a full article about the Tagaytay trip—where to eat, where to go, that kind of thing—and submit it to Manila Standard Today. But because of the delay in the publication [...]
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