Nothing is chocolatier than MAITRE CHOCOLATIER

MAITRE CHOCOLATIER, is a new cafe in Ayala Center Cebu.  From the name itself, from interior designing to their menu.. chocolates.
They serve only chocolates.
They sell chocolates.


The food is okey... but I don't recommend this to people who has a big appetite, hehe.  After our meal, We didn't dare to order desserts...

Linguine in Pesto Sauce with Parm-Crusted Chicken with white chocolate sauce.  Thumbs-up!! I love the tender juicy chicken with white chocolate sauce!!    190php+VAT

Grilled Chicken in Chocolate Pomegranate Sauce. The dark thingy on my chicken is not sunog, chocolate yan.  For the chicken, I wasn't impress. It was dry.  When the waiter asked me how I want the doneness of my Chicken, I was shocked! sa pagkakaalam ko chicken should be cook cooked (I even told the waiter, you don't ask people if they want their chicken medium cooked). kaya siguro dry yung chicken na served nila sa akin. hehe     215php+VAT

Dark Chocolate Blended drinks.  140PHP+VAT

Mint Chocolate with liquor.  140php+VAT

They also sell chocolates and bouquet of ferrero. 48php per stem

ROMA MIA

I'm a first timer here at ROMA MIA, recommended by Shoti and Mama.  They have the good grilled pork chop, according to syoti. We were in Ayala last sunday, so why not eat there. We were gutom na gutom. It was past lunch time na nung natapos ang appointments namin. The place is ok. Since mga 2pm na nun, they have only two customers. 

For starter, we ordered calamari, unfortunately their squid got spoiled na daw. So instead, we ordered pasta.

Puttanesca. (From the word puttanata, a noun means something worthless or something easy to prepare).  I was chatting with Sir J early that morning at FB about my wedding and how I wanted him to sing on that day.. I order this pasta because of him.  When he cooked Puttanesca for the choir.  I wasn't a fan of pasta, I don't like tomatoes or too much tomatoes (made my stomach upset) but Sir J's Puttanesca is still one of the best pasta I ever tasted.  Even though I'm allergic to anchovies I had one plate of his cooking.

Recommended by shoti, Godfather Chop (grilled pork chop). its thicker than the usual porkchop we had at home yet its juicy and tender.

Tuna belly for my achi. no comments in this one. nothing special I think.

Summer Cooler.

Masuki (Ma Mon Luk) Binondo

Masuki or Ma Mon Luk (old name) was/is the best mami house in Binondo.  Even though they changed their name, the taste still the same, the old "sikat" original noodle soup. The first noodle house introduced Chinese original noodle soup, in 1930. The plain noodle soup with chicken / pork makes this mami house sikat.  

When Da picked me up at the airport the other day, it was already planned that we will have our little night snack at Masuki (931 Benavidez St., Binondo, Manila). I never had a chance to go to Chinatown because of the traffic.  I'm relieved that I can visit the town with no traffic (reminiscing my childhood).  

Original Noodle soup. Ordered one big for Da and a regular size for me.  This is served with their own asado sauce.  Only Masuki served Mami with asado sauce. Hindi nakakasawa. Our server is still the old super maasikaso manong, told Da "Elem or HS ako nandito na siya at ngaun.. magaasawa na ako dito pa rin siya" :D

My favorite siomai!! love my siomai in calamansi and asado sauce. For me, When in masuki.. siomai is a must!! :) 

Spice Fusion, BTC

Plain Roti; Favorite Starter

Went to Banilad Town Center today for mani and pedi.. While waiting my sis decided to get a haircut too at Salon de Rose.


And had our dinner at...
Spice Fusion is one of the Asian Restaurant here in Cebu that me and my siblings visit when we were craving for Asian Cuisine.  It serves all kinds of Asian cuisine, fusion.


Although, we encountered some problem in the SM branch.

Raddish Cake topped with Garlic

Claypot Lapu-Lapu

Mint Green Tea; uhh... I don't like the taste!! the strong minty flavor of the tea gave bitterness after taste.  I can't explain it in words tho.. it's like they put too much Eucalyptus..

Tandoori Persian Restaurant @ Parkmall

2nd Floor, Parkmall Branch

I'm not really into Persian food... not a fan of spicy food, though I love spices. I like curry and kebabs.

The first time I went at Parkmall, I already saw this restaurant but didn't have the courage to go in.  But I always remember that day, when a foreigner told me, "the food here is so masarap!".

Well, It's really masarap!!

Kebab platter; tuna, beef, chix.. sadly, Lambs were sold out!

Love this Paella!!!

Mango Lassi. Yummm!!  :)

Hermit the Crab, as Pet

As we strolling along the tiangge at IT Park, we met Ahya Pit and asked us if we've seen a store selling crabs. My first thought was the "crab". We looked for the store... and saw Hermit, the crab, or shall I say Crabs with colorful shells. They were selling it for 250php plus 50php for the cage. Ahya bought one in a spongebob shell. 


For further knowledge, Hermit Crab is "VERY social animals, and do well in groups. They are often found in the hundreds in the wild. You can better observe their social patterns with at least 3, although you can most certainly get more! And remember, crabs can bully smaller crabs.". http://www.wikihow.com/Care-for-Hermit-Crabs


I was thinking of owning one, but... will see first on how Ahya take care of his hermit crab first!! :D

Jonas Pares at Mayon Street

JONAS Pares is one my binabalik-balikan in Manila. Beef pares with fried rice lang, ok na. 
Last month, My mom and I wanted to eat there but unfortunately there was no parking space.  We ended up eating at Jolibee across the street.
I was craving for a beef pares the other day but don't have the time to visit Jonas. Luckily? (hehe) When Da and I had a little misunderstanding, he bribe me of Jonas Pares. haha!!

Tempura Grill, Trinoma

When I arrived here in Manila, I was craving for Japanese food.  Mom and I went to Trinoma to do some little shopping (ehem!).  I treat my mom to tempura grill and ordered my fave sukiyaki.  aaahh... remembering my college days, Sukiyaki don for lunch!!

I just can't forget the taste of sweetness and tender beef in this Sukiyaki.  Along with my favorite mushrooms, tofu,  white onions and carrots. PHP 285.00

I or shall I say, We never go with out some UNI Sashimi.  PHP 195.00

California Temaki.  Sawa na sa Maki kaya Temaki naman.  PHP 80.00/pc  medyo expensive para sa isang serving lang.

SAKE (Salmon) TEMAKI. I love sweet raw Salmon.

KFC's Twister California Maki

I like Jap foods so much, and to think that you can have california maki in a new style??

I wasn't interested at first, thanks to Da's convincing power (bribing me with KFC's fries)... It wasn't bad. I mean with the juicy fried chicken strip and wasabi... and ripe sweet mango.. and cucumber. It's my maki to-go!! except in was wrapped in soft tortilla. Enjoyed eating this while watching movie!! or midnight snacks with my family

I was excited to eat my California Maki twister, didn't give effort in taking this photo.

Thank you KFC!!! definitely one of your finger lickin' good.

Seoul Garden @ SM City Annex

I first red about this in a newspaper while I was in a plane from Cebu. Few days later, we experience Seoul Garden's food and service. My family loved to eat in buffet hotpot dining. We even DIY at home. 


Seoul Garden is nothing like Yakimix or TongYang.

Seoul Garden offers Korean style of buffet hotpot/bbq dining.  They served marinated sliced meats (beef, pork, chicken), seafoods.  They have a mini salad bar / halo-halo bar with ice creams; and different varieties of sauces.  You can also order for a bimbim-bap (rice topping) which is included in the buffet. Drink all-you-can Pepsi products and Nescafe coffee. They also have some mini sweet cakes.  I enjoyed making my own rootbeer float!! and grilled meat wrapped in fresh lettuce.  We enjoyed this kind of dining because we could talk more and eat slow. and, the dining crew were sooo friendly and very approachable!!!

Our table. Cooking some meat and squash.. yes, masarap ang grilled kalabasa.

Seoul Garden once / twice a month!!

We were not hungry... just starving!!

Some things that Da and I share is our fave past time, eating. We loved to try different cuisine or just simply looking for a place to eat.  But this day is different.. he called me and asked me if where I wanted to go. For a date? (dot. dot. dot.) We went to Shangri-la Plaza to had our merienda and to watch movie (also one of our shared interest). 

We arrived before 2pm, and bought our movie ticket. We decided to watch the movie, The Town.

And decided to have our merienda at Secret Recipe.

I ordered one Carrot and ginger soup, which I find not worth for a Php 95.00.  Da ordered  for a TOM YUM KUNG.  It was stinky and spicy even though we requested it to lessen the spice, it was still very spicy, we enjoyed it though.  And I requested for a warm water and they gave me ice water. uhh...

After a few walks, very few walks... Da was still hungry. And, we ended up in Figaro. For a very light meal, we just ordered one serving of Figaro club sandwich.

I like clubhouse sandwich but there's something missing in this sandwich.. mayo or the less mustard or it has too much pesto... I don't know.

Did you know that Da loves Vanilla? Uhhh... now I know. :)

My Fave... Coffee Floats!!! the taste and aroma of barako coffee and sweetness of Vanilla Ice cream. YUMM!!!

And, we had sour-cream popcorn while watching movie!!!

This is our typical date... :)

Legend of the Guardians "TV Spot" - Search of a Legend

I watched this movie because I have charge slips that will soon be expire. I never thought at first that this movie is good.

But then, hindi ako nagsisisi na pinanood namin 'to. Thanks to my Achi for choosing this movie.

Johnny's Fish and Co.: Cebu's version of Fish&Co.

My Monday bonding with Achi, we went to Parkmall to buy some office stuffs.  Yes, I usually go to Parkmall to buy office supply and of course, eat. After I paid my MB credit card, my sis and I looked for a place to eat... and we saw Johnny Depp!!! (haha, kidding) i mean "Johnny's Fish and Co."

So, this is Johnny Depp.. hehe. cute!! We love the interior of the restaurant and the old ship theme.

Cebu's version of Fish&Co., but more affordable than the original. 

Mine is the Sarsi while sis decided to have bottomless Iced tea. But when you order  for a coca cola brand they will served your drinks in a CocaCola glass (like those 25 php Coca Cola glass from Mcdo)

Appetizer.  Farmers Rolls.. Sorry Johnny but this is no good. I'm ok with fresh uncooked sprouts. I already had this one in Lemongrass,  and lemongrass served this with kani meat and yours with shrimp. but the sad part is you only gave us one shrimp (for plating? ) for five rolls.

My fish&Chip rather fish&rice (I don't eat fries for lunch). It's really taste like Fish&Co., even look like Fish&Co., the breading and tastes with tartar sauce. It made me wonder though. hmmm...  But for a price of Php 150.00, ok na!
I like COK's fish chips better! ordinary and plain.

Surf & Turf. Ngayon ko lang nalaman na "surf and turf"means combination of steak and seafood. hmm.. I like it! Surf & Turf!! and I like this Surf & Turf (lamb and shrimp). I don't like lamb but the taste was yummy. kahit na walang gravy.

This is better than Fish&Co., because? It's Cheaper!

Casa Ibiza; One day getaway

I was curious about this place when I first red this in femalenetwork.com. A place, I thought, that would be perfect for a barkada outing.  Unfortunately, when we almost finalize our outing I have to cancel it for hosting.  But Da wanted a one day getaway. So, we pushed our outing kahit na for day tour lang.

It's a one hour drive to Antipolo City. I find the directional map, they provided, old and a bit confusing.  There are no new or clear landmarks to help us find our way. BUT, the place is good! When the guard opened the gate, I was woah!! I like the blue, orange, and yellow buildings/villas!! (made me remember how I wanted to paint our office toilet with blue and yellow.)

The place is extraordinary.... The design and the Mexican concept of the resort. It has a relaxing environment.  But surely, we would have enjoyed more if our friends could joined us.  

Sprawling Pool. The pool is.... not malinis though. Yung mga dumi nasa ilalim na ng tubig. :(

The bridgeway can be rented for 500php/2 pax. It can accommodate 5 person. 

Additional of 150php/pax. 

The Cabana can be rented for 1,200php/2 pax and can accommodate 15 person. Additional of 150php/pax. 

The Villas.

Deluxe Villa is good for those who planned to stay overnight in the resort. It has 3 bedrooms; one master bedroom with toilet, 2 small room, one toilet, a living area with TV, a dining area and preparation area. It can be rented for 3,000php/2pax, and can accommodate 10 persons (500php per pax).

Same goes for the Grand Villa. However, it has more space than the Deluxe.  Grand Villa is 6,300php/6 pax and can accommodate 20 person.

We find this painting in the guest relation office. ANG KULIT! :D

more photos.. http://picasaweb.google.com/roi.marj/CasaIbiza?feat=directlink

Maki Haus, Banawe

I was always been curious about this Chinese restaurant in Banawe.  I always enjoy eating Maki. So today, my mom and Ahya accompany me here. Besides, my mom said they served oyster cake (mom's favorite). 

There's nothing special in this restaurant but it is your typical Chinese food that you will come back anytime you want Chinese.

Maki

Mama's Favorite

Kiam-peng (I love this)

Salty Sauteed liver

black gulaman in PET bottle

There's one thing I don't like Chinese... MSG.