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Located in one of the newest foodie circles of Fort Bonifacio in Taguig, I anticipated with excitement a good Japanese dinner that night. It is my first time in Jozu Kin having opened only early September 2009.

Jozu Kin, Burgis Circle in Fort Bonifacio

With a tagline “The Japanese Gold,” i was surprised that most of the prices were actually manageable given the upscale atmosphere of the restaurant. The ‘gold‘ is actually the literal translation of ‘Kin‘; and ‘Jozu‘ means ‘skillful‘ (not ‘Japanese‘, boink!).

Mari Moriawase

Their menu offers a wide range of variety from sushi to sashimi, and maki to teppan-grilled dishes.

Accompanied by 5 other friends, let’s now take a closer look at the food.

For the first order, we had Maki Moriawase for appetizer. It was a maki sampler platter of California Maki, Tempura Crunchy, Dynamite Roll, Philadelphia Roll, and Futo Maki (P357).

Maguro Togarashi

For the main dishes, we had spicy tuna with onions & wasabi mayo – Maguro Togarashi. At P125, the serving is good for two. It was not too spicy either.

Kuro Kusho Pasta

It was also an uncommon sight to see western-style pasta in a Japanese menu; well at least for me. We had Kurokusho Pasta with freshly crushed black pepper, olive oil, Parmesan cheese and black tobiko.

Upscale Entrees

Tartufo Hotate

Matsusaka Gyu

For the upscale-priced ones, 4 entrees caught my attention namely Tartufo Hotate, Matsusaka Gyu, and two Foie gras variants: Pan Seared Foie gras and Tenderloin Foie gras.

Tartufo Hotate are scallops, pan seared, with asparagus shitake mushroom and truffled brown butter.

Matsusaka Gyu is matsusaka beef seared on teppan. Matsusaka beef are among the highest-grade beef in the food industry. The price will send one of  your eyeballs bulging in a while. 🙂

Another first for me is the foie gras. Foie gras is basically fattened duck or goose liver . Tenderloin Foiegras is tenderloin beef and foiegras seared on teppan.

Pan Seared Foie Gras

The serving of Pan Seared Foie Gras looked conservatively sophisticated with a mango slice on top followed by the foie gras on rice and mango puree and finally glazed with honey. It was just a handful, but the experience is quite unique and unforgettable.

Tenderloin Foie Gras

Only one phrase can describe it: “melt in your mouth goodness.” Some of you may know the meticulous process of producing a foie gras, which explains the price.

Ushi Ebi Sunburst

The last four mentioned entrees are priced at P590, P1850, P700, and P700, respectively. Yes, Matsusaka Gyu did not send my taste buds to the heavens, but the price did. 🙂

And to end this Jozu Kin experience is the best among them all – the main photo of this article: Ushi Ebi Sunburst.

It’s a mix of giant marinated and grilled prawns with lettuce, fresh strawberry, grape, apples, orange and blue berry in balsamic vinaigrette.

Although I believe my description was exact having mentioned strawberry, grape, and blue berry in singular forms, the grilled prawns was outstanding in size and taste, and not in singular form.

Jozu Kin's Ushi Ebi Sunburst

We wish to thank Chef Jayme Natividad who was gracious enough to introduce and explain some of the dishes to us.

More photos, Click Here.

Give Jozu Kin a visit at Unit ES-2 Forbes Town Center, Burgos Circle, Fort Bonifacio, Taguig. You may reach them at 403-1875.

They rhyme! 🙂 Kidding aside, Jollibee’s Spaghetti has been my favorite fast food spaghetti because of it’s tendency to be sweeter than the usual spaghetti we know. Actually, it’s called the Filipino-style spaghetti – a sweet one.

To make it even sweeter,  Jollibee launches its search for your Spaghettiest Moments with your family, friends and officemates!

Mechanics:

Send in your pictures enjoying the Jollibee Spaghetti or any Jollibee Spaghetti value meal combination in any of the following categories:

the happiest moments with your family

the wackiest moments with your barkada

the funniest moments with your officemates

Entries must include a one-line caption to describe the photo. An individual may submit a maximum of three entries, or one entry per category.

Entries may be submitted online at photos@spaghettiest.com . Suppy your full name, residential address, email address and contact numbers.

You may also submit via snail mail. Entries should be placed inside a sealed short brown envelope containing one 4R photo entry and the corresponding details (caption and participant’s information) typewritten on a short bond paper. Mail to

BCI-ENAV
30th Floor Tycoon Centre
Pearl Drive, Ortigas Center
1605 Pasig City

Jollibee Spaghettiest Moments Photo Contest

Prizes:

One winner in each category:

Family Prize Package

• a Jollibee family party package worth P7,000
• Jollibee gift certificates worth P5,000
• Sony digital photo frame.

Barkada Prize Package

• a Jollibee barkada party package worth P7,000
• Jollibee gift certificates worth P5,000
• Sony digital camera.

Officemates Prize Package

• a Jollibee officemates party package worth P7,000
• Jollibee gift certificates worth P5,000
• Sony photo printer

Deadline for the submission of entries is at midnight of November 22, 2009. You may check out www.jollibee.com.ph.

Jollibee Spaghetti Meals

Jollibee has also recently packaged the Jollibee Spaghetti into 3 set meals like Spaghetti Solo, Spaghetti and Chickenjoy, and Spaghetti and Yum.

Weeks after Red Ribbon hosted the “A Memorable Dessert Experience” online writing contest, the winners can now be revealed. This is in celebration of Red Ribbon‘s newest White Forest cake.

Continue reading →

Joey Pepperoni’s Pasta All You Can at only P150 is our third Nomnom Promos Week entry.

Pasta All You Can - Meat Sauce

Get free refill choices among 3 types of pasta – unlimited!

Your options are Meat Sauce, Carbonara, and Pesto. Regularly, they are priced at P175, P155, and P145, respectively.

No leftovers, no sharing. Children below 4ft. is only charged P75,

This promo has actually been going on for sometime now. I was made aware of it since August 2009.

What’s good about this is that the promo is available any day, all the time!
Weekdays: 11am-10pm
Weekends: 12pm-9pm

I’ve tried the meat sauce and pesto variant. I didn’t like their pesto that much (that night), but the meat sauce was good. 🙂 However, I observed the sauce getting sparser as I reached my third serving (or maybe it’s just me). [I’m not ranting , ok, the third serving was still good, taste-wise] 🙂

Eat All You Can Pesto

You may contact your favorite Joey Pepperoni branches here:

Joey Pepperoni
Main
8121807

RFM Pioneer
G/F RFM Corporate Center
Pioneer St. cor Sheridan St. Mandaluyong City
Tel No.: 631-1688 or 631- 8101, loc 7903

SM Mall of Asia
SOUTH WING, Pasay City
Tel No. : 556-6045

The Fort – Global City
Ground Floor, Fairways Tower
5th Avanue cor Mckinely Road ,The Fort
Tel No: 856-9509

Makati – Salcedo Village
G-1 CCH Bldg
136 LP Leviste ,Salcedo Village, Makati City
Tel No: 812- 1807

Manila – Malate
Level 4 Robinsons Place Malate, Manila
Tel No.: 523-5819

SM Southmall
Upper Ground, Foodstreet
Tel No. 801-4051

Quezon City
GF SM Mezza Residences
Aurora Blvd cor Araneta Ave. & Guirayan St.
Brgy. Doña Imelda
Quezon City , Manila
Tel No: 514-5350

Iloilo City
Eugenia Arcade Diversion Road , Iloilo City, Philippines
(033) 509-9999

* Promo not available in  Joey Pepperoni Pizzeria Marikina  and Iloilo branches

Joey Pepperoni Pasta All You Can @ only P150

Flapjacks has an ongoing promo where they are giving away P250 gift certificates.

Go to Flapjacks Philippines website http://flapjacks.com.ph/. Scrolling to the lower half of the screen says “We love to hear from you.” By signing up in their mailing list, you will get a free P250 mobile gift certificate that you can use to dine in any Flapjacks restaurant in the Philippines.

Flapjacks Restaurant P250 Gift Certificate Promo

SMS Confirmation from Flapjacks

The catch? -  you would have to share your email, birthday and cellphone number.

Take note as well that you may only use the P250 GC in conjunction with a minimum purchase of P500. In effect, it’s like a 50% off offer.

This post is the second article for the Nomnom Promos Weeks.

I tried to join earlier and got this SMS response in a jiff. Show this message to the attending waiter before ordering.

Hurry, get that free FlapJacks P250 gift certificate.

We hereby declare this whole week a Nomnom Promos Week. We will be featuring five food and restaurant related promos, discounts and freebies within these seven days!

We’ll start with the soon-ending Coca-Cola Jollibee UAAP Bottles Promo.

Even with the recent UAAP season concluded, continue to flaunt your school spirit with 72^nd UAAP season’s hot collectibles, the limited edition Coca-Cola Jollibee UAAP bottles!

Jollibee has extended this offering until October 15 31, 2009. UAAP fans and supporters can take home the eight uniquely designed bottles for free by simply ordering any Jollibee Burger Value Meal with Double Go Large upgrade of your fries and Coke!

The limited-edition Coca-Cola UAAP bottles eye-catching designs  are inspired from the competing UAAP squads—the Adamson Falcons, Ateneo Blue Eagles, De La Salle Green Archers, Far Eastern University Tamaraws, National University Bulldogs, University of the East Red Warriors, University of the Philippines Fighting Maroons and the University of Santo Tomas Growling Tigers.

Complete your Coca-Cola Jollibee UAAP bottle collection now!

Krispy Kreme Philippines initially provided relief efforts for victims of typhoon Ondoy in their own simple way by giving away free doughnuts to typhoon victims and relief operation volunteers as part of its immediate action.

As a follow up, they are holding a special day tomorrow in their branches. They are encouraging everyone to help them in their fund raising efforts to provide relief for Ondoy victims, by simply purchasing an Original Glazed doughnut this coming Sunday, October 11, 2009.

For every Original Glazed doughnut you buy, the sale will automatically go to Krispy Kreme’s relief fund which will distributed to the Philippine National Red Cross–Rizal Chapter and ABS-CBN Sagip Kapamilya.

Krispy Kreme is inviting you to join hands with them in rising from this occasion and prove that heroism is truly a Filipino trait.

You may visit the following stores on October 11 to join the fund raising –

• Bonifacio High Street
• SM Megamall
• Greenhills Drive-Thru
• Trinoma Mall
• SM Mall of Asia Main Mall and Drive-Thru
• Robinsons Galleria
• Gateway Mall Ground Floor and Cinema Level
• Glorietta 4
• The Annex SM North EDSA
• SM Fairview Annex

I”ll be at the KK BHS branch. 🙂

Texas Roadhouse Grill became one of my top choice in steak restaurants since I discovered their Bonifacio High Street branch back in April of 2008. Their grill menu is made of win and their steaks are imported from the US.

All the while, I didn’t know until a few weeks ago that they have an Ortigas branch at El Pueblo as far back as November 2007.

Anyhow, as I expected, dinner was awesome. I don’t really eat that much during dinner but this one is irresistable. It’s good that I was with friends to share the large servings. Allow me to share the three main stars of that night:

Shrimp and Salmon Skewer

Shrimp & Salmon Skewer

Three skewers of shrimp and salmon. Three medium shrimps and two chunks of salmon on each stick to be exact.

It’s good that the salmon was still juicy, despite being grilled; coz others fail at that.

Herbs and spices are visibly sprinkled on top. Texas rice, the sauce, and some veggies complete your serving of Shrimp Salmon Skewer.

Priced at P420 (US$9), it is also a ‘Sheriff’s Recommendation.’

Jesse James Sampler

Jesse James Sampler

Texas Road house Grill’s Jesse James Sampler is a combination of three starters : Chicken Tenders, Buffalo Wings, and Wild Cheese Fritters.

I love the cheesy-ness of the Wild Cheese Fritters, the other two are so-so. The serving size is not that much also since it’s just a starter and the three had to share plate space; not to mention the three types of dips/sauces occupying the middle area. :)  P375 (US$8).

The Great Ribeye

The Great Ribeye

This is it. It’s not called The Great Ribeye for nothing.

The Great Ribeye is a 10 oz. US ribeye steak seasoned with herbs and garlic. You have the option to have it cooked rare, medium rare, medium, medium well or well done. We had ours at medium well. The meat was so tender and juicy; but of course we already know this.

The chef generally advised to shy away from ordering well done steaks to be able appreciate the tenderness of the meat.

Texas Roadhouse Grill in El Pueblo, Ortigas

The large serving took the three of us to shared it and almost had leftovers. However, with a big size also comes a great price (it rhymes!). 🙂 P1100 (US$23.50) might sound expensive but the size and quality of the beef makes it worth it.

It also comes with a serving of mashed potato and veggies; another ‘Sheriff’s Recommendation.’

Texas Road house Grill in Ortigas is open daily from 11 am to 12 mn Sundays to Thursdays but until 2 am on Fridays and Saturdays (Tel. nos. 635-6715 to 16).  The Bonifacio Global City branch in Taguig can be found at Bldg 1, Bonifacio High Street. They have the same operating schedule.  (Tel. nos. 856-1547 to 48).

It’s ‘yeehaw‘ time at Texas Roadhouse Grill. nomnomnom 🙂