Archive for February, 2010

Chinese New Year + Valentines = Heart-Shaped Tikoy :)

Chinese New Year + Valentines = Heart-Shaped Tikoy :)

Yes, they did it. Aside from the fear of fully-reserved restaurants come the big day of  Chinese New Year and Valentine’s Day combined, they also made heart-shaped tikoy (glutinous rice pudding ). Tikoy‘s literal translation in English is “sweet-cake.” Going back, the maker of this heart-shaped ‘tikoy‘ in the picture is Polland bakery. They’re known [...]

Where-To Food Spots This Valentines?

Where-To Food Spots This Valentines?

With the Valentine season just around the corner,  Valentine’s Day promo are everywhere. And this article will serve to confuse you all the more – haha!  (just kidding). I actually posted a little survey a few weeks ago through a NomNom Club social networking thread and one of the resulting recommendation was Chateau 1771. The [...]

4 Times the Chocolate with Chocolate Heaven

4 Times the Chocolate with Chocolate Heaven

Just in time for the valentine season, Red Ribbon releases its newest, richest, and chocolatiest chocolate cake ever – the Chocolate Heaven. Promising a taste of heaven with its creaminess and combination layer of chocolate brownie at the bottom and chocolate mousse over it. It is then covered by rich dark chocolate icing and topped [...]

Emergency Sunday Cooking: Sauteed Squash (Ginisang Kalabasa) and Fried Lumpia

Emergency Sunday Cooking: Sauteed Squash (Ginisang Kalabasa) and Fried Lumpia

The house-helper left the house quite late today for her Sunday grocery. The rest of the relatives were somewhere else and I was left all alone. It’s 11:30am. Time for lunch and I had to summon my secret impromptu cooking skills. The result: sauteed squash (ginisang kalabasa) and a set of fried fish lumpia. The [...]

Love is in the Air…and in Red Ribbon’s Valentine’s Cake

Love is in the Air…and in Red Ribbon’s Valentine’s Cake

It’s the season of commercial love. Yes, a market-driven one characterized by candies, chocolates, flowers, gifts, and occasional greeting cards, to materialistically symbolise one’s love and affection for another. But whatever the Valentine’s Day critics say, it always feels good to receive a chocolate, a bouquet of flowers, and a cake from your loved one, [...]

Serye Cafe Filipino on Food Foto Fiesta

Serye Cafe Filipino on Food Foto Fiesta

As promised, we’re bringing back Food Foto Fiesta. I had a recent surprising discovery of a Filipino restaurant called Serye. It’s related to the classic Aristocrat restaurant that anyone above 20, and residing in the Philippines, would be familiar with. Actually, Serye have been around for sometime but is currently re-branding from Serye Restaurant and [...]

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