Today also signals the start of our month-long countdown to going home—Manila. Yes! The Husband and I will spend a few days in the Philippines to have our much-needed leave from work. I’m excited and a bit agitated about travelling again. Excited because I can’t wait to not work, travel again, see airports, spend time with the Husband, our families and friends, rest and eat! I’m a bit agitated because at this state, well, we still have a few things to finish before we go on holiday–there’s work, getting stuff organized and packing suitcases which we hope won’t go over the weight limit. But all in all, we are happy that things are slowly falling into place and things will be settled in time for our vaycay.
Crisostomo is our newest favourite Filipino restaurant when we visited in 2011. We liked the interiors of their restaurant in Resorts World Manila from the blue chairs, lighting and paintings on the wall.
We’ve heard so much about Kanin Club and we were glad we had the opportunity to eat there. We loved their Seafood Kare-Kare because the sauce was simply more flavourful than any other Kare-Kare we’ve tried. And it’s amazing that even if it was a seafood dish, it tasted fresh.
A small restaurant in Greenbelt 5, likened to an American diner, caught our fancy because we saw Beef Tapa Overload on their menu. Mr. Jones makes their Beef Tapa tender, juicy and lots of garlic.
My Mom introduced us to Conti’s because I love Vigan Longganisa. Their Vigan Longganisa were okay although I hoped it would be less dry. Conti’s is also know for their Mango Bravo cake (no photo, maybe next time) which we loved!
The art of eating Yakiniku style has reached the shores of Manila and when we’re there in 2011, Yakimix was one of the famous restaurants that satisfied our love for buffet and cooking while we eat. We enjoy this kind of meal because we get to spend a long time catching up with friends over an abundance of great food.
My parents treated us to seafood dinner at Blu Fish (Eastwood City) for some massive red crabs!!!
Fely J’s Kitchen is another restaurant we had Filipino dinner at Greenbelt 5. I wasn’t totally impressed with their dishes but if I were to pick which of their dishes I liked best, it would have to be their Sisig. The serving of their dishes “underwhelmed” me and the tastes of their dishes didn’t give me that “wow!” feeling.
It was the peak of Summer then so a refreshing Halo-Halo from Razon’s gave us a sweet respite. Their Halo-Halo’s finely shaved ice and delicious leche flan makes it one of the best halo-halos in the Philippines.
The desire for dessert after dinner brought us to Cafe Breton (Greenbelt 3) and it was then that I got to try their La Pinay Crepe which consists of ripe mangos topped with vanilla ice cream. It’s sooooo yummy!
We found a stall that sells Ice Scramble, a childhood food favourite, at PBCom Tower when we visited our former workplace. Sosyal na scramble siya kasi pwede kang maglagay ng toppings. The name of the stall escapes me right now but it’s the one and only stall at the PBCom Tower food court so it’s hard to miss.
I was gifted with a huge Banoffee Cake from Banapple. It was the best banoffee cake I’ve ever had. It had a lot of bananas and the cream is addictingly sweet.
