Belated Birthday

John and Achi celebrated their birthday @ Hongkong Emperor, MOA. I reserved for 20 guests and I really love their VIP rooms overlooking the bay.



We ordered 2 Set Meals good for 12pax (P15760) composed of Cold cuts, Steamed Live Suahe, Four Treasures Soup, Dried Scallop with Abalone, HK Famous Pork Leg, Fish Fillet with Garlic, Emperor Crispy Chicken, Steamed Crab, Fried Rice and Mixed Fruits. We added additional order of 2 Birthday Noodles (P1360), 2 Salt and Pepper Fish Fillet (P1640), 10 Siu Long Pao (P1080).

~Cold cuts~


~ Fried Rice ~


~ Dried Scallops with Abalone ~


~HK Famous Pork Leg~


~Steamed Suahe~


~Salt & Pepper Fish Fillet~


~Steamed Fish Fillet~ (I love this one!)


Since it's their birthday we had birthday noodles :)


~Steamed Crab~


My favorite Shiao Long Pao


Mixed Fruits for dessert


I was so shocked to see the bill amounting to P22,750+, which includes 10% service charge. But overall, aside from the price the ambiance is very nice (no added payment for room) and food is great as well.

La Mien

We ate at Lan Zhou La Mien last Feb 26, its located near Metropolitan Hospital. I think it's my 2nd time. What makes this special is that the noodles are freshly cooked and you can actually see how it is done. We order Fish Fillet La Mien and Seafood La Mien for P110 each.

The process of making the noodles


Fish Fillet and Seafood La Mien

Keane's Christening

We went to Sta. Maria Bulacan last Feb 26 for my nephew's baptism and my brother's birthday as well.

Reception was held at Green Pond Restaurant also in Bulacan and it offers Chinese delicacy. Well not bad for a restaurant at the province.

Steamed king fish @ home

I went to Aranque market around 12 noon. Only to find out that the vendors are only half day. There's only one store left open, selling King Fish and Lapu-lapu. I bought 3 King Fish for P280 per kilo. I planned to cook a steamed king fish.

Good thing, I found this helpful blog:
http://www.mymomfriday.com/2009/11/steamed-king-fish-in-light-soy.html

King fish is just a family of Tilapia it is the slimiest fish I've ever cleaned. Though, the market vendor already removed the intestines, gills and scales still I need to re-clean it.

I place ginger strips inside the fish, slice both sides and let it steam or 20-25 minutes. And then for the sauce I mixed ginger, onion leaves, water, soy sauce, vinegar and sugar and cajun spice (I just found this at our rack ^-^ )

As per the blog, there's this Cantonese method pour a hot oil over the steamed fish. Oh well, thats what I understand. So I heated oil on the pan and then pour it over the steamed fish.




Here's the sauce:



I also steamed brocolli for much healthier effect.
There it goes ...



I was not able to take a pic of the finish product.
But you can already imagine, I just transferred the sauce.

Achi and John said that it's good or maybe they are just being kind. :)

Iza's 1st bday at Max

We attended the 1st bday of the daughter of our friend. Reception is at Max. Aside from Chicken all the main dishes are served. We had sinigang na Hipon, Kare-Kare, Liempo, Pancit canton, Daing na Bangus, Buko Pandan.
For kids, Chicken, Spaghetti and Ice cream were served.

My college friends :)


Aside from the food we enjoyed the magic show.

pyro @ mongolian

We went to MOA to watch the annual World's Pyrolympics and dine at Mongolian rice bowls. They offer a pyro buffet worth P700 (inside) and veranda (P750). It consists of the mongolian bowls and continental foods. We chose the P700 since colder and quieter inside, will just go out once the fireworks started.

This is how to make the sauce





The continental food


And of course, the desserts



The main event

Burger Project

Had a Valentines merienda with my officemates @ Burger Project (Teacher's Village, Maginhawa street). While waiting for our orders.

I was not able to take a picture of my burger order form.


I ordered Angus beef (125) on a oatmeal bun (15) with Mozarella cheese (35) , bacon (25), mango salsa (20), tomato and lettuce (for free). This cost me P220. Good thing I havent had breakfast and lunch yet so I was able to eat the whole burger.



Us, with our burgers