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An Engaging Visit to Mall of Kitchens in Makati

We almost always feature food and restaurants in this blog. As a food blog, well, what do you expect! 🙂 But then, we realize that the kitchen machines, cookware, dinnerware, and the likes are just as important in making it possible for the food to be served – this is where Mall of Kitchens (MOK) comes in.

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Organique Acai on Rated K, ABS-CBN

If you are an avid reader of NomNom Club, you might remember our feature on Organique Acai about two months ago. So I, together with my wife, were surprised last night while we were watching TV tuned in at Rated K of ABS-CBN – the Organique Acai Premium Blend product was featured.

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Cooking with Nancy Lumen and Philips’ Digital AirFryer

Yesterday, I cooked Lechon Kawali with renowned food writer, critic, and media personality Nancy Reyes-Lumen! It was my first time to have the honor to cook with her and we used the new Philips AirFryer.

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How to Order via the Krispy Kreme Mobile App

The new Krispy Kreme mobile application, or Krispy Kreme App for short, had an intimate media launch last Friday night at their Bonifacio High Street branch.

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Quick & Easy Cooking w/ Midea Kitchen Appliances

Midea, one of the world’s largest consumer appliance manufacturers, is introducing a new wave of cooking as they redefine culinary adventures with their all-new kitchen range.

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6 Reasons Why PureIt Water Purifier Impressed Us

Consciousness for safe and clean water in the Philippines has improved a lot through the last decade. We’ve seen the boom in the mineral water retail and water refilling station industry by leaps and bounds. And now there’s PureIt.

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Have You Experienced A Wobbly Table?

Filipinos are generally forgiving. They can spare a celebrity with a scandal or even re-elect a toppled and convicted president. To put it simply, we are a race tolerant to those who oppress us. And this culture is carried over in our everyday life and in the simple things we do.

Wobbly Table

Wobbly Table

In particular, I believe most of us have experienced at least once in our life, a wobbly table while dining in a restaurant. Others call it a ‘shaky table’ or an ‘unsteady table’. By whatever name it goes, it causes an uncomfortable dining experience or a spilled coffee.

You say that’s easy, just step on the table base to balance it and viola! However, you just have to hold your position until everyone finishes their meal.

A more innovative approach involves folding a piece of paper and tuck it into one of the table legs. Problem solved. Well, that is so until the paper is pushed away, the next customer comes in, and the routine experience repeats all over. What do you know, the lucky you may encounter the same table in your next visit! 🙂

Step on the Table Base Solution

Step on the Table Base Solution

I say this has to stop.

As food bloggers, a dining customer’s experience nowadays goes beyond the good food. I would like to think that a bad wobbly table experience count in the ambiance category, to say the least, until the plate slides to the floor or the tea spills to your lap.

So what do we do?

As paying customers, you should at least raise the concern with the restaurant manager with regards to your issue. You may also respectfully ask for a replacement of your coffee or tea, if the restaurant would deem appropriate, which they would most likely do.

In the US, immediate replacement of  a spilled beverage caused by the restaurant’s wobbly table is necessary. Customers can even sue the restaurant for possible damages caused by the incident, say, important documents or gadgets that got wet on the table during the incident.

If these happened to you, how would you react?

Spilled Coffee care of an Unsteady Table?

Spilled Coffee care of an Unsteady Table?

I appreciate restaurants nowadays who offer alternative mediums for feedback from customers such as sending a text message to a certain mobile number like the one in Italianni’s and its sister restaurants within the Bistro Group. Indeed, you would taste the love, not only in the food, but also in the experience.

I hope other restaurants would also be as conscious of their customer’s experience, in particular with the wobbly tables, as the high-end ones. After all, they would want their customers to have a good dining experience in their restaurants, right?

Until when do we tolerate a primitive problem like wobbly tables? If the restaurant can forego a simple problem of shaking, how much effort do you think are they putting in preparing your food?

 

City Delivery: My Very Happy Cream Puff Mango Nama Choux

City Delivery Boy

City Delivery Boy

I surprised my fiance two weeks ago with a City Delivery package just before our trip to Batangas to meet more relatives from my side of the family. So instead of the usual meals I order from City Delivery, I tried something for merienda that we can bring on the road – cream puffs from Happy Cream Puffs. It’s one of the brands/vendors under the City Delivery wing.

Happy Cream Puff

It was October 31 and I was just glad that City Delivery was open for delivery that time even when it was the start of a long weekend holiday in the Philippines. I also came to know that they do deliver even at November 1 & 2.

Anyhow, so the surprise went all well as intended.

Happy Cream Puff Delivery

Happy Cream Puff Delivery

Generally, cream puffs are loved by all, being on the sweet side. The caramelized top ones were better, though  more sinful, than that of the plain cream puffs.

I tried different variants that the Happy Cream Puff menu offered but what caught my taste fancy best was the Mango Nama Choux. It was a burst of lovely sweet cream from the inside balanced by the mango fruit slices. Of course, my fiance and I shared ’em and we almost didn’t have enough. 🙂 The bite-size ones were also good for sharing as a box and offered more variations. But then again, the Mango Nama Choux cream puff is NomNom‘s highly recommended order.

Assorted Happy Cream Puffs - Small

Assorted Happy Cream Puffs – Small

Caramelized-top Happy Cream Puffs!

Caramelized-top Happy Cream Puffs!

CityDelivery.ph Online

CityDelivery.ph Online

Online City Delivery Order

I usually order through the phone. This was my first time to try ordering through City Delivery online. After registration where they captured my contact details and delivery address, I was ready to order.

Aside from the usual cash payment option, customers can also use their credit cards. I hope time will come when they would also recognize Paypal as a valid avenue; only a handful of local commercial websites who cater to retail customers accept Paypal payments. For bloggers and netizens like me, Paypal is the easiest, hassle free way to pay online, while keeping the security of my purchases. I believe that day will eventually come.

I’m sharing with you some screen shots which I had to go through ordering as well.

Order Online

Order Online

Online Food Cart

Online Food Cart

Checkout

Checkout

City Delivery Check Out

City Delivery Check Out

City Delivery Hotline

City Delivery Hotline

City Delivery Hotline

The City Delivery number is simply 87878! Or order online through http://www.citydelivery.ph/

Aside from Happy Cream Puff, my other foodie favorites Sumosam, Bon Appetea, Empanada Mas, Crave Burger, Little Asia, Pepper Lunch, Yoshinoya, and Zong, are with City Delivery too. Try ordering from City Delivery hotline today and share your experience as well, good or bad reviews, in the comment section below.