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Jul

NOT YOUR ORDINARY PET

Categories: FAMILY : LOVE KO 'TO and whatever
Tags: blog about family, crustaceans, doc gelo, docgelo, family, family and living, family blog, family life, hermit crab, hermit crabs, house pets, lucky hermit, lucky hermit store, lucky hermits, megamall, parenthood, pet, pets, pinoy blog, sm megamall

When we went to SM Megamall last Sunday to accompany my balikbayang-in-laws for their very first glimpse of the Metro after their 5 years of living in California, Tina, Gabby and I spotted one kiosk that sells crustaceans as pets. We’re so amused.

These are hermit crabs with shells that are hand-painted with colorful cartoon characters. We found them too cute for words!

Imagine how Gabby giggled over Spongebob and Mr. Krabs-painted shelled pets. They’re a visual delight!

Located at the basement of SM Megamall building A, the store is called Lucky Hermits. Wonder how lucky can you get once you own one.

I didn’t ask for the bigger ones but those in photos above are priced at PhP 300 per set that includes one hermit crab, a small plastic container and its food for limited duration, I guess.

Did we buy Gabby a clawed creature for him to own as pet?

No.

Although it’s a given fact that it’s very rewarding to have pet/s, it’s also too demanding to own one and we felt that our almost 6-year-old son isn’t ready yet to care for such living thing.

I, personally cannot imagine if he’ll become so attached to it then one day, it’ll bid him goodbye due to natural cause. *paranoid*

We want Gabby to learn how to care for himself first before he shares his love to others (for now, his love is exclusively ours *greedy smile*.) Some weeks ago, he began to take showers on his own.

We don’t even own a dog yet; but if time comes that we’re ready to care for one, the three of us would like to have a pug one day. We like it so adorably wrinkled. We also want to set up a salt water aquarium once we’re ready to pay incredibly high electric bills.

What about you? What’s your pet? Would you like to have a hermit crab as house pet?

If you do, you might want to read this site regarding basic care of hermit crabs (oh yes, an association of crab owners even exists, would you believe? ) –>hermit crabs.com

Apr

WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR SATURDAY DINNER

By docgelo 18 Comments

Categories: FAMILY : LOVE KO 'TO and FOOD & MORE FOOD!
Tags: atrium, dining, dinner, doc gelo, docgelo, eating, family, family and living, family life, food, food blog, foodie, friends, holy cow, holy cow atrium, holy cow megamall, megamall, megamall atrium, megamall restaurants, sm megamall

Tina, Gabby and I were treated to dinner by 2 of our best friends of 17 years yesterday; they’re Rob and LG, dutiful godparents of Gabby actually. It’s our usual bonding session whenever Rob comes home for a few-week-vacation every 3 months from his paramedic-work abroad. LG on the other hand, just arrived from his 1-week-Bangkok-vacation few hours before our early dinner. A lot of catching up were done in between these tummy-fillers…

CHEESE STICKS (PhP 165+) and CLAM CHOWDER (PhP 70+) for starters…

Gabby liked the super-sized Cheese Sticks; he even requested for a second order that we didn’t avail. We had 3 orders of the Clam Chowder but it’s a huge let down! It was thin and was not creamy at all!

YUMMY FISH N FRIES (PhP 260+)

The Yummy Fish N Fries was OK; a common fish and chips-nothing to rave about. The same word goes to the plates of pasta we sampled…

CHEESY CARBONARA (PhP 190+) and SPAGHETTI MARINARA (PhP 180+)…

OCEAN TREASURE (PhP 899+), almost saved the night with its quite impressive presentation; was served as flambe!

This to-share-order was nearly a great hit if properly served with condiments and/or sauces. Our sponsor even had to ask from the wait staff some bottles of ketchup and hot sauce.

The ambiance was fine; place cozy lit; with nicely interiored western appeal.

You might think why we didn’t try their steaks, it’s because one of our friends doesn’t eat red meat and it’s not a problem to us; we all like seafoods anyway.

*Our attention was drawn when Tina politely complained to the staff that she saw Gabby’s second glass of chocolate milkshake called COWPOKES (PhP 85+/tall glass) was not properly prepared. My wife actually saw in less than a meter from our table, the staff who made the milkshake as she put down her spoon on top of UNSTERILE stainless counter; then she used the same spoon to taste what she’s blending; repeated her actions several times over.

Tina didn’t let the chance pass to correct the untidy preparation of our child’s drink. She’s a professional nurse, a customer and a mother to begin with. I admired my wife for holding her temper; she was so composed while talking to the staff who was apologetic and rightfully replaced Gabby’s glass. Although we were not sure if they’ve called the attention of the female crew who did the unsightly incident.

I was even a bit eager to try this restaurant last night to compare how it rates to another similar-name-forgettable-food place in TriNoma that we tried last year (view HERE).

Can you blame us if we become skeptical to try another meal from…

Nevertheless, our biggest thanks for Rob and LG’s company.

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HOLY COW STEAK RANCH AND AMERICAN GRILL / SM MEGAMALL ATRIUM, ORTIGAS.

Dec

HAVE YOU TRIED TESSIE TOMAS SALAD ?

By docgelo 21 Comments

Categories: FAMILY : LOVE KO 'TO and FOOD & MORE FOOD!
Tags: atrium sm megamall, chef quarter, chef's quarter, christmas dining, dining, doc gelo, docgelo, family, family and living, family life, food, food blog, food review, foodie, foodie blog, friends, mega atrium, megamall, prawns, restaurant review, restaurants, salads, seafood, seafood dishes, shrimps

My wife, Tina, our preschooler son, Gabby and I joined my our 2 good best friends of 16 years and counting for a casual get together 6 days before Christmas. We came from different places but all hurdled the holiday rush going to SM Megamall just to catch up with our 7PM dinner.

After few SMS of where to dine, my suggestion was honored. Finally, we have tried CHEF’S QUARTER in Mega Atrium.

I’ve been longing to try and taste some of their dishes after I’ve read their reviews from broadsheets and on-line.

We saw the place was packed except for the table outside the restaurant so we decided to occupy it while waiting for Rob who was caught in traffic from Pasay City. Our friends asked me if I’d like to avail of Chef’s Quarter’s eat-all-you-want spread but out of nowhere, I beg off. I opted their ala carte. Perhaps those CQ’s dinner and merienda buffets could wait some time. Just before we were given the menu, I’m already sure of what to choose.

For Salads, Chef’s Quarter has Trio Salad (prawns, escargot & mushrooms on lettuce in balsamic variation), Frut de Mer (spiced seafood and pomelo in sesame vinaigrette), Foie Gras Salad (goose liver on green apple ragout in raspberry honey sauce), Caprese Salad (baked buffalo mozarella, plum tomato, basil and toasted garlic), and Caesar Salad (romaine lettuce tossed in lemon-anchovy dressing with garlic croutons bacon bits and parmesan cheese).

Those salads appeared to me as must-try but I and our friend, LG particularly singled out TESSIE TOMAS SALAD “OLD TIME FAVORITE” for our starter. I guess we’re both interested on how the name of a local celebrity made these seafoods on bed of greens quite attention-grabbing on CQ’s menu.

On my plate :

TESSIE TOMAS SALAD “OLD TIME FAVORITE”, large / to-share PhP 595+. A combination of Roasted prawns, Marinated Salmon, Shiitake Mushroom with Mesclun Salad in French Creamy Balsamic Dressing.

While others considered this salad as ordinary or found nothing unusual, I instantly fell in love with it. Perhaps because I really like no complexities and I’m just biased to its ingredients.

I don’t know about you but I’m a loyal SEAFOOD fanatic. I love SHRIMPS from its little variant used to prepare a Bagoong Alamang or shrimp paste to its larger sized prawns; so it wasn’t difficult to like this at all. Tessie Tomas Salad-large size has FOUR PRAWNS that were roasted in almost perfection; they’re succulent and plump.

While Gabby was still picky on food and was not at all interested with salad, I served Tina and LG their share of the prawns and asked our benefactor for that dinner, Rob, if he wants one. Quietly, I was jumping for joy when he passed up; that made two prawns landing in my plate!!!

FRENCH ONION SOUP, PhP 150+.

Rob was the only one who ordered for a soup. It comes with two small pieces of bread and butter but was served several minutes after the bowl of the soup was brought to our table. There was no apologies from the wait staff so they just gave themselves a minus-point. But let me clear that everything was served within 20 minutes after ordering except for those breads.

STIR FRIED PAELLA SEAFOOD, PhP 430+ large order / to-share. If you must know, I also love this Spanish dish. Although CQ’s version may not be the most flavorful but it doesn’t disappoint either. All of us were satisfied with this platter and despite its HUGE serving, I personally felt short, actually and would crave for more, LOL

CHEF’S QUARTER PASTA, PhP 420+, large /to-share serving. Fettucine tossed in mild spicy vegetable pangritata with prawns.

What can I say? This pasta plate has prawns again! It was raining calcium and iodine last night, LOL! Actually, Tina considered sharing her order with us so instead of having a steak which Rob doesn’t eat (read : he hates pork and beef), she agreed on my suggestion for this pasta which Gabby liked as well.

ICED TEA, refillable PhP 75+. Refreshing, but I was expecting a more uniquely tasteful house blend.

BELGIAN CHOCOLATE FONDUE, PhP 350+. Mallows and fresh fruits. Gabby personally hand-picked this dessert from the menu. It was OK but suffered comparison with the BEST FONDUE that we have sampled to date. I think we’ll order their cake slices on our next visit.

Service was good but not great; maybe because staff was busy more on refilling the buffet spread and a little bit less attentive on the ala carte diners. The place was a bit small especially when cramped during peak hours. Nonetheless, Chef’s Quarter deserves a second and many more visits because of the quality, taste, cleanliness and presentation of their dishes.

We spent more than 3 hours of chatting over fine foods on our table. Other than the dinner treat, Rob and LG who both stand as dutiful godparents to Gabby, gave our son their advance Christmas gifts. THANK YOU! Tina and I had a little something too for them. What a night of friendship and family bonding experience!

Have you tried dining at Chef’s Quarter ?

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CHEF’S QUARTER, Level 3 Mega Atrium, SM Megamall, Mandaluyong City.

Sep

NOT OUR USUAL MEAL

By docgelo 15 Comments

Guess what type of food we had for dinner on a lazy Monday-holiday…

After a brief phone conversation in the morning and few text messages until afternoon, I, my wife Tina and our son Gabby were invited by our good friend of 16 years and counting, Rob to a dinner in one of the restaurants at the Atrium of SM Megamall. He’ll depart again to middle of nowhere by the end of the week after his official days off so he had to see us and feed us; LOL, before he bids temporary good bye for another 3 months of medical work that gives him his bucks.

Because our host doesn’t eat meat and practices Pescetarianism by choice, seafood and no-meat diet should be present on the menu every time we’re eating with him. WE ARE NOT COMPLAINING! We love seafood!!! But that night it was only him who had such craving, or was he? I know it’s unusual, but believe it or not, I wan’t craving for anything. I just went with the flow and trusted Rob’s preference.

Enough with the guessing game. I know I’m no good at that

OK, we had our first chow at THE KEBAB FACTORY. It’s our first time there but Mediterranean food is never new to our palates. I’m a fan of beef or chicken shawarma. There was an episode in the life of Gelo & Tina when we became so addicted to shawarma that we had it for almost a week as late afternoon snacks to the point that we got so umay or found it ‘sickening’. But after few weeks, we craved for it again, lol and had tasted so many varieties from food stalls on streets and groceries to high-end hotel restos like CIRCLES EVENTS CAFE at MAKATI SHANGRI LA where the chefs also serve such dishes to bakeshops like BreadTalk where they also sell Naan.

Going back to The Kebab Factory, it was almost empty of customers when we got there that late Monday afternoon but as our son’s ‘magnetic powers’ with diners worked again; as everywhere we eat he attracts more clients. With less than half hour, TKF was filled with hungry stomachs craving for something different.

Here’s a peek of what we had…

PAPADUM MASALA, PhP 65 +. Fried lentil wafers garnished with onions, tomatoes and coriander.

I ordered this appetizer. It’s marked as one of the bestsellers of TKF on their menu and the logic got into me after trying it. The wafers were thin but crispy and were perfectly served with dips of yogurt and hot sauce.

I wanted to compare Naan of Breadtalk and Circles with that of TKF so I aslo ordered its kind…

GARLIC BUTTER NAAN, PhP 65 + Traditional leavened Tandoor bread with garlic… Not bad either.

HYDERABAD CHICKEN BIRYANI, PhP 200 + The famous city known for its authentic chicken simmered in rice with the rich array of spices. Tina and I shared this dish and again, we can tell that this was satisfying.

I only remembered that I’ve watched an episode on Asian Food Network long ago, on how to prepare this Hyderabad Biryani when we got home. And now that I’ve tasted the dish, I can tell that it’s truly flavorful and perhaps next to paella which tops my list of rice dishes, I think given few more exposures, I can learn to love this too.

A visit to The Kebab Factory isn’t complete without trying one of their kebabs on skewers…

BEEF KEBAB, regular PhP 225+ / also available at 1 skewer for PhP 115 + Mouth watering minced beef kebabs cooked in a Tandoor oven. It was Tina who chose this and Beef Kebab doesn’t disappoint.

As for our pescetarian friend, here’s what he ordered that he genererously shared with us as well…

SAFFRON RICE, PhP 120+. Long grain rice cooked with butter with delicious aroma of saffron.

VEGGIE MEAT KEBAB, PhP 250. This plate got mixtures of flavors. There was a little bit of sourness we tasted which I guess, was part of its character.

PRAWN TANDOORI, PhP 480+. The plump shrimps had that lingual stimuli from those unfamiliar flavors that were fused in one dish. It’s neither spicy nor bland. The taste was good but far from standard and new to my tongue.

Except for the Persian lamps and nicely woven comfy chairs which are far from being eye-sores, the ambiance at The Kebab Factory is typical and casual. Entire staff was discreetly attentive, although constant smiles would help soar their service to the highest heavens. Food was served after 10 to 15 minutes after order which was good and the taste of what’s in the menu isn’t bad either.

Considering that our friend, Rob has been eating similar food at his work site, nevertheless, our tongues are still bias with our staples and with the few Italian, Continental and of course, Oriental. Although we found the food at The Kebab Factory as uniquely tasteful and a bit new to our senses, to nicely put it- I think it would probably take more gastronomic adventures partial to Mediterranean food before it tops our list.

Do you like Persian food?

The Kebab Factory, 2/F SM Megamall Atrium, Julia Vargas Avenue, Mandaluyong City.

May

PHO HOA

By docgelo 9 Comments

Categories: FOOD & MORE FOOD!
Tags: docgelo, food, foodie, megamall, Pho Hoa, Pho Hoa Vietnamese Noodle, restaurants, vietnamese restaurant

We had our late snack-early dinner at Pho Hoa in Mega Mall. It’s a Vietnamese Noodle House. Do you like Vietnamese food?

The iced tea in Pho Hoa was served in huge tall glass, and it has very distinct lemony taste! Affordable too at PhP 75. It was served to our table with a plate of fresh basil and bean sprouts with small slices of lemon as toppings-to-taste for the soup we ordered.

PHO NAM, CHIN, GAN, BO BIEN (Flank, brisket, tendon and meatball pho), PhP 265.

The meat in the soup was so tender, the noodles and the broth were tasty.

FRESH SPRING ROLL SHRIMP, PhP 125. 50. It was good to bite on veggies and vermicelli with shrimps wrapped delicately and served with its perfect dip – a delicious peanut sauce.

I am with my wife Tina and our son Gabby who asked for a vanilla ice cream served in two scoops with chocolate drizzle and a cherry on top (PhP 75).

Service was fast and efficient. Staffs were courteous and served our food wearing smiles and Vietnamese outfits. Nice! Best of all, Pho Hoa doesn’t have service charge! We’ll try to visit again soon to try other foods from the menu.

PHO HOA VIETNAMESE NOODLE HOUSE. Upper Ground Level SM MegaMall A, Mandaluyong City

May

RED MANGO PART 2

By docgelo 8 Comments

Categories: FAMILY : LOVE KO 'TO and FOOD & MORE FOOD!
Tags: desserts, docgelo, food, foodie, Ice cream, megamall, megamall restaurants, red mango, red mango yogurt, restaurants, sweet treats

I told you, it can be so addicting!

Left : Original frozen yogurt, medium (PhP 115) + 3 toppings (PhP 40) : Blueberry, Kiwi, Peaches.

Right : Swirl Yogurt of Original & Green tea, medium (PhP 120) + 3 toppings (PhP 40) : Mango, Kiwi, Peaches.

It was only 48 hours and one blog post when I first tried Red Mango yogurt in TriNoma mall. It’s a healthier alternative to ice cream and other sweet treats with less guilt on the caloric-sugar-fat-counters. I so like it that I brought my wife Tina and son Gabby to Megamall this afternoon to visit Red Mango’s branch there and for them to enjoy my present cravings. Expectedly, they love it too! Who can resist fresh fruit toppings of choice (or you can opt for nuts or choco chips) on an all natural-frozen yogurt ? It has reasonable price, friendly service, nice comfortable interiors – an option to coffee shops that we also frequent.

One of my blog visitors posted comments on my previous entry on Red Mango and suggested for me to try green tea yogurt on my next visit. And so I did have a swirl of original frozen yogurt and green tea! Not bad at all! Sarap pa din! LOL…

Here’s a photo of the variety of toppings one can choose from. Slices of fresh fruits or do you fancy nuts or chocolate and candy bits ? You can have it as one, two or three toppings! It’s cheaper when you have 3 toppings; plus it’s appetizing & visually appealing.

The staff was so pleasing and politely answered my querries. She told me that they have been operating for few months now (where was I during those days? I’m always late on what’s new! LOL). After their branches in TriNoma, Eastwood malls in Quezon City, and their branch in SM Megamall, Mandaluyong City, Red Mango will invade the malls in Makati soon! Yipee! We live in Quezon City but we like Glorietta and Greenbelt malls. They are my son’s stroll places.

Look how nice Red Mango’s serving bowl is! It has the store’s logo at its bottom- a little surprise for the kids and kids-at-heart. This was my bowl, emptied after 3 minutes!

RED MANGO MEGA MALL. Ground floor SM Mega A, SM Mega Mall, Mandaluyong City.

May

THERE’S MORE TO HOT NOODLES!

By docgelo 3 Comments

Categories: FAMILY : LOVE KO 'TO and FOOD & MORE FOOD!
Tags: affordable restaurants, braised noodles, cheap chinese food, chinese restaurant, congee, dimsum, docgelo, dumplings, food, foodie, luk yuen, megamall, mrs. lavendula, restaurants, siopao, spring rolls

As I’ve tasted stated on my previous posts, we had too much of food tripping last week when we went to a mall. Tina was encouraged to try for the first time an established Chinese restaurant that offers good tasting dishes that are easy on the budget.

This post was also inspired by one of my virtual-blogger friends, mrs. lavendula whose blog entry reminded me that it has been a while since I last munched at this foodplace where reasonably priced and delicious gastronomic yummies can be enjoyed with a cup of hot tea.

HALO-HALO CONGEE, PhP 130.

Tina had this congee. I like this too. It’s always soothing to hungry stomachs! It’s served hot, with eggs, organ meats, and pieces of thin crackers. With this alone, one can be easily satiated.

BRAISED SEAFOOD NOODLES, PhP 185.

The mushroom, the braised noodles on special oil and seasoning, the seafoods yield delicious oriental dish!

We had these favorites as our hearty dinner last week which were all served fast by efficient and friendly staff of Luk Yuen, MegaMall. Their other branch that I’ve tried was at Greenhills, between Unimart and Virra Mall near the Holy Family Chapel. And their service and food were consistent. No wonder Luk Yuen has a following among foodies and families.

SPRING ROLLS, PhP 90.

Fresh veggies wrapped and fried to crispiest.

STEAMED SHRIMP DUMPLINGS, PhP 100.

Steamed shrimp dumplings or Hakao is always a winner. Luk Yuen’s version has a soft moist wrapper and generous serving of shrimps. I just love anything with shrimp!

JUMBO HONG KONG SIOPAO, PhP 75.

I am biased with bola-bola siopao than asado only because it has red salted egg. Luk Yuen’s HK style jumbo siopao reminds me of Hen Lin’s and Le Ching’s. We enjoyed this as well but considering the siopao bread, Kowloon’s always wins my vote!

RIPE MANGO SHAKE, PhP 65, ICED TEA PhP 42. Look how my wife and son enjoyed Luk Yuen…

LUK YUEN. Bldg B MegaMall EDSA Mandaluyong City.

May

PIZZA HUT BISTRO

By docgelo 1 Comment

Categories: FOOD & MORE FOOD!
Tags: chocolates, crab salad, desserts, docgelo, fettuccine alfredo, food, foodie, foodtrip, megamall, pasta, pizza, pizza hut, pizza hut bistro, restaurants, sweets, tiramisu

Perhaps it has been a couple of years or so when Pizza Hut innovated its chain of pizza parlors into Pizza Hut Bistro offering wide selection from their menu coupled with impressive ambiance.

Do yo like Pizza Hut ? Well, we do. I’ve compiled here our recent and past foodtripping at Pizza Hut Bistro, here’s some of our favorites…

CRAB SALAD ROLL, PhP 179 GARLIC BATARD, PhP 70

This is MY FAVORITE : GARLIC SHRIMPS and MUSHROOM PASTA! Php 175.

as if one photo isn’t enough! I just like it so much, I had to post 2 photos of the same pasta from different branches. It’s spaghetti tossed with sauteed shrimps and mushrooms, in garlic butter sauce!

FETTUCCINE ALFREDO, PhP 145. SUPREME PAN PIZZA STUFFED CRUST, PhP 235++

TIRAMISU, PhP 99. CHOCO LAVA

May

KIDS’ ART PLACE

By docgelo 3 Comments

Categories: FAMILY : LOVE KO 'TO
Tags: art work, docgelo, family, fun, kiddie painting, kiddy's art town, Life, megamall, painting, parenting, rubber paints

My wife Tina and I brought our son Gabby to MegaMall yesterday to have another family bonding day. Gabby chose to spend the afternoon doing creative art activity here…

Kiddy’s Arts Town located in most malls in the Metro offers arts and crafts activity that kids can enjoy with their folks (who are kids-at-heart). It was Gabby’s 2nd time where he enjoys doing rubber art. One has to select a pattern/s from the wide variety of choices and color it with liquid rubber paints. We chose 3 patterns, one for each of us. =) I tell you, it’s a good de-stressing/relaxation activity for adults too.

I don’t know but because of swine flu, without a doubt, I’ve preferred a porky pig pattern while Tina’s choice reflected one of her/our favorite fun movies – Pirates of the Caribbean as she had a pirate ship pattern to color, and ofcourse Gabby had a military tank pattern, taking manifestations from his former military grandparents, no! God forbid.

Each pattern is sold at price range of PhP 140 to PhP 180, inclusive of everything – rubber paints, use of facilities, etc. Not bad for an afternoon of wholesome family fun!

The friendly staff also provided toothpicks, cotton buds, and tissues (but we liked to use baby wipes) to clean up edges as one apply colors to the pattern. It takes few minutes to finish a masterpiece!

Check out our masterpieces in progress and how Gabby was so involved with the activity.

After “painting”, one has to give the colored pattern to the staff for her to put it in the microwave oven for few minutes until the rubber paints dry up. Then the art pieces can be brought home, and be pasted on glass windows or smooth surfaces such as bathroom tiles simply after wetting the back surface with plain water.

Gabby was so happy with the experience at Kiddy’s Art Town that he didn’t ask us anymore to bring him to Timezone arcade to play games.

How we wish he could be the next Amorsolo or Da Vinci, lol but he prefers to be a chef and a golfer as early as now.

Mar

SATURDAY FUN

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I had a LOOOOOOOOONG Saturday with Ity (a.k.a my lovely wife Tina) & our son Gabby but it was again a whole lot of FUN… and LUCK!

The first of our agenda was to eat at Pepper Lunch in Shangri-la mall. Since my comment card to those awesome sizzling meals that we had before was chosen as one of those lucky ones last month, I received a text message early last week that I am entitled to a FREE Pepper Rice Meal on my next visit.

Traffic was heavy on a late Saturday morning but nevertheless, we made it in whole piece to the mall & immediately hit the basement for another Do-It-Yourself dining experience. Before entering the fastfood, Ity already picked what she’ll order from the poster outside while I spotted the top man of PL himself, no less than Jeroen Van Straten. He doesn’t know me but he commented to my first post about PL. I just knew him from reading other blogs & ofcourse googling his wife’s chuvaness blog.

I was asked by the staff at the cashier to sign their list of lucky diners as I claimed my Beef Pepper Rice meal. After which, I ordered Ity’s preference. It was so sweet I only paid for Ity’s meal and I had mine FREE!
Honesty begets LUCK!

Ity had COMBO CUT STEAK & HAMBURGER
(Php 280 if A La Carte, & PhP 355 with rice & drink)…
Look at how it’s served hot & fresh!

A bit of mixing and “cooking” and voila, deliciously tender meal!

The staff gave Gabby a balloon & a giveaway mobile accessory…

My son had to pose with my lovely wife before eating…

A couple of weeks ago I ate CHICKEN PEPPER RICE & liked it. But I just wanted to try other meal every new visit.
This was my PL plate : BEEF PEPPER RICE
(available at PhP 198 A La Carte, & PhP 235 if with coke).

Here’s how it looked like after mixing & “cooking” it with the yummy honey brown sauce…

Completely GONE AFTER THREE MINUTES !

We agreed that we’ll definitely have future visits to Pepper Lunch soon.
Can’t wait.

PEPPER LUNCH Shangri-la Mall
Garden Court level, Mandaluyong.
(63-2) 631 6410

PEPPER LUNCH Rockwell
Power Plant Mall,
Rockwell Center, Makati City
(63-2) 895 6185

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Next thing we did was to walk to Megatrade Hall in Megamall to attend the 2nd day of the Nurse Expo as my colleagues in Allgen the Intelligent Review participated in the talks to attendees and had a booth complete with raffles & giveaways for valued nurses.

This was the booth Allgen had where nurses trooped to inquire about how we make them NCLEX-RN & IELTS passers.

Allgen people showed videos proving that we’re not only NCLEX-RN and IELTS review center but we do out-reach programs within our community such as medical mission and feeding programs enough to attest that we highly believe and support the potentials of Filipino nurses.

ALLGEN THE INTELLIGENT REVIEW
5/F TM Kalaw Center Building,
667 TM Kalaw Avenue, Manila
(63-2) 567-2749
+63918-4688222

http://www.allgen.net

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Then we strolled along Megamall, did some window shopping and few hours after, we decided to eat again. This time after sizzling japanese food for lunch, we had Hawaiian barbeque and rice (again!) for merienda. We had it at OHANA…

I had HAWAIIAN CHICKEN and PORK BBQ COMBO (PhP 149),
MANGO and BANANA SMOOTHIES (PhP 65)
Exta HAWAIIAN RICE (PhP 22)

Taste was not bad, but I just thought that Hawaiian BBQ was not that different from the usual grilled meat that we’ve been eating here. Never been to that part of US yet so I cannot distinguish authenticity =)

OHANA HAWAIIAN BBQ
2/F Bldg A, SM Megamall,
Mandaluyong

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Then right next to OHANA Hawaaian BBQ is KIDDY’S ART TOWN. It was already past 6PM but my son has still the energy and enthusiasm to do art works in this little kiosk for children.

First step: Select the design that the kiddy artist would like to color…

Gabby chose the sponge who lives in a pineapple under the sea :
SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS!
We were provided with a small tray with RUBBER COLORED PAINTS in squeezable tubes, some pieces of cotton buds, tissues & small sticks that were used to wipe colors beyond the outline. The chosen design was put in an aluminum plate.

Look how SPONGEBOB acquired his colors from his artists….

All we had to pay for the entire art work activity was the design that cost PhP 180, inclusive of everything. Kiddy’s art town even provides apron to little painters…

And since the COLORED PAINTS used were RUBBER, a minute of heating in an ordinary microwave will complete the entire process…

Presenting the final art work…

We ended the day by sipping a dose of caffeine at Starbucks Coffee in the Atrium of Megamall. BTW, I was also given a stub 2 weeks ago at Starbucks Trinoma which automatically came out of the cashier register as I turned to be that day’s lucky coffee drinker entitled to have a free tall cup of any blend next visit after I did customer’s survey on-line. So my iced caramel macchiato yesterday was availed for FREE.
SOME GOOD THINGS IN LIFE ARE FREE!!!

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