BAGUIO: VIZCOS'S

Along the famous Session road, among the bar and restos, there's this place famous for their cakes called Vizco's. Their bestseller is the (surprise! surprise!) Strawberry Shortcake.They also serve, pizza, pasta, salad, and all that italian food. I know you could all get that food in Manila, but the difference is that the ingredients are fresher and the price is cheaper. So I think this place is a must go when you visit Baguio. And hey, you don't have to travel that far because this place is just walking distance from SM Baguio. 

Cakes per slice cost around 60-95php.

Stawberry Shortcake

Mango Cake

Pesto Pizza

BAGUIO: CHOCO-LATE DE BATIROL

Our first stop on our Baguio Resto hopping is the Choco-Late de Batirol. Located in Camp John Hay, near CJH's gate 2 and thr Baguio Country Club. 

Choco-Late de Batirol serves breakfast and lunch.

Going there is a bit tricky when you'll take a jeep. The terminal is located in front of the Venice Hotel, side of the Burnham Park. The jeep will drop you off Gate 1 of the Camp John Hay and I swear it's a very long walk from there to the Choco-Late de Batirol. I suggest you take a cab and tell him to drop you off on Gate 2 near the Baguio Country Club. It opens around 9 in the morning.

Their drinks costs from 80 to 145, hot or cold. I think it's a bit expensive for a cup of chocolate, but the place is not your ordinary restaurant, and very far from the pollution of the city. 

I had a cup of the hot choco-late de batirol which costs 80php and longsilog (ilocano longanisa-sinangag-itlog) which costs 160php. 

I'm not sure if I'll come back, the food is expensive for a longsilog, 160php? Really? I'm kuripot like that!

Well, come to think of it, the place is located near the Baguio country club, the golf course is just ten steps away, that explains the higher than usual price range.

The chocolate drink is very frothy, ate faye even coughed a little, it's very strong, like eating the very cacao tablet. 

oh I forgot to mention, this suman is to die for!

and hey they even sell other pasalubong stuff toO.

INFINITEA ANONAS

I just can't get enough of milktea! 

A week after going to and fro Quezon City, I've discovered INFINITEA. Yes, I've been passing by that store for a whole week without even noticing it. How weird is that?! And ever since, I've been having my daily dose of milktea.

Sunday: Okinawa Milktea
Monday: Strawberry Bliss Milktea
Tuesday: Dark Chocolate Milktea
Wednesday: Green Apple Tea with Yogurt
Thursday: (When all else fail) Wintermelon Milktea
Friday: Peach Lychee Milktea

..and I was suppose to have my Chocolate Milktea today Saturday), but the unthinkable happened! I don't want to go into details but, my Milktea was consumed by the streets of Angono. tsk, tsk, tsk...

The Milktea selections already have add-ons in it (nata de coco, pearl, pudding etc...) 70php to 90 php. Fruit teas dont have bits (add-ons) in it,it's cheaper that the Milktea selections, price range from 60php to 70php, you could upgrade your Fruit Tea and add yogurt (plus 10php) or yogurt slush (15php). I haven't tried the yogurt slush yet but the Apple Green Tea with yogurt is absolutely DELISH! I also haven't tried the Frappes yet, but I target to have them next week (yeah...), price ranges from 85php to 95php. They also serve hot teas. 

Okinawa Milktea

CHATIME

Last Sunday, we watched the Perks of Being a Wallflower instead of going to our hang out place, Moonleaf Antipolo, but being the milktea lover that we are, we spent the afternoon after the Logan Lerman, Ezra Miller (Swooning while writing) and Emma Watson movie drinking milktea and in my case Chocolate Mousse.

This time we went to Chatime, I know many already knew this place, but still, it's new to me and that was the first time I ever set foot on that place. Chatime not only serve milkteas, but they also have Mousse, Fruit Tea, Juice, Oriental Pop Tea and even some cakes (which by the way is very cheap, cheap like 20php cheap) and sandwiches.

Chit had the Taro Milktea. It taste like ginataang bilo-bilo, Chit even said it tasted like Camote, it also had the consistency of the ginataang bilo-bilo. It was a first because, we were accustomed to having tea's consistency close to as of water. 

Their price ranges from 90 to 110php.  They have a variety of teas which can be served hot or cold.

Chatime can be found on SM Megamall, Bldg. A, groudfloor near the Supermarket. A few walks away from the National Bookstore. A perfect place to read and drink milktea. Yay! 

Cakes and Sandwiches

They have this disc shaped device which acts as your number for you to pick-up your order on the counter, the device vibrates when your order is ready to be picked-up

 Chit's Taro milktea

Chocolate Mousse of Moi's

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MOCHICREME

Japanese food had always been a big mystery for me. And just last Sunday, my good friend Chit, introduced me to this japanese ice cream store, Mochicreme. 

Let me enlighten you on what "mochi" means.

Mochi (餅) is a Japanese rice cake made of glutinous rice (not to be confused with gluten) pounded into paste and molded into the desired shape. (Thanks wikipedia!) 

Mochi Ice Cream is a ball of ice cream covered with mochi. That's it. 

You need to wait for a few seconds because the mochi is hard as stone and you need for it to be soft for you to eat it.

Mochicreme is located in SM Megamall, in front of the SM Cinema Cinema 7 to 12.

Their best seller is the Azuki Red Bean which costs 65php. I had the Blue Vanilla, and well, it's a little bland for my taste, but the mochi part is just so good to my tongue, it's like a hard version of jellyace. Price ranges from 60php to 65php. 

Blue Vanilla Mochi

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CAFE MOCHA CAKE

I have always wanted to bake, ever since I started watching TLC (Discovery Travel and Living then). I loved Jamie Oliver, Nigella, and I even watched Everyday Italian everyday! (Haha!)

So last week, we celebrated the 2nd birthday of my daughter, and I thought, maybe I should bake! But here's the thing, we don't own an oven! dang! So I googled for desserts that would include me baking using an oven and I saw one! cafe mocha cupcakes from yummy.ph. 

But see, I don't have all the ingredients of the recipe at hand when I made it, so here's my version:

TRUNG NGUYEN COFFEE

When we arrived in Saigon, one of our companion said that there's this one coffee shop that's leading the coffee business in Vietnam, and was also said that it is even bigger than Starbucks! Well, come to think of it, I didn't even remember seeing a single Starbucks in Vietnam.

In every corner, you'll see the Trung Nguyen Coffee shop, it's like Jollibee here in the Philippines, I mean that's how I felt when I started to notice it everywhere I look.

So, when we got to the place, We thought it was closed, because there are no customers around, and little did we know, there's a second floor and all the people are in there. Getting back on track

HAPPY LEMON MILKTEA

Now it sounds very pathetic but Happy Lemon is the second tea shop I've ever been, so it doesn't make me a tea expert, not to mention I've got two friends Dora, and Alwin with me who also are no milk tea experts either, but we still have our taste buds working so we'll rely on our tongue to taste and tell the verdict. 

My company was more familiar with this tea shop, located in SM Megamall, and I haven't even had a clue that this store exist until we walked by it and decided to spend money on milk tea that afternoon. Alwin kept telling us he always sees his friends posting pictures of Happy Lemon on facebook so it was time for him to try it. Dora said she saw this shop being featured on one of GMA shows, I think it was Jessica Soho's shows  she even mentioned having teens buying stocks of Happy Lemon milk tea so when the Milk tea cravings attack in the middle of the night, they will have Happy Lemon tea nearby ( I mean in the fridge). On the other hand, I was clueless and don't have an idea for what the fuss is all about. 

So Alwin ended up buying the Matcha with Adzuka Beans, Dora had Oreo Cookies and Cream Coffee and moi had the Royal Milk Tea with Pudding. They all costs 100 php. If you're planning to go, the price ranges from 80php to 110php and they also serve hot tea. The place is a little small, so when there'e a lot of people, you are (I think) expected to stay shorter and not have the perks of lounging around.

So here's how we taste it, Alwin said his' tasted like fish (no kidding!), and had the assumption that the tea is so strong that it tasted like Bisugo. Dora said, hers tastes like a leaf, Lasang Dahon was her exact words, and for mine, it was okay, I don't have anything to compare it from but it was bland, very bland, even though 100% sugar (or something like that) was written on the cup. 

SO there. No offense to those who loved it, it wasn't just out cup of tea (get it? hahaha!) And we all three agree to say, WHAT WERE THOSE PEOPLE STOCKING HAPPY LEMON THINKING?!

Lastly, the one that added to our confusion was the Happy Lemon Boy, who we thought was a girl, you know the Logo, the one that winks. 

Well, we wouldn't come back, that's for sure.

matcha with adzuka beans

 Royal Milktea with Pudding

   the very confusing lemon boy/girl

                           

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STREET FOODS: LITID AND BOPIS

Three years ago, on the bus on our way to Iloilo from Boracay, we heard some foreigners talk about how they only eat "good meat", and I assume after hearing that conversation that we Filipinos eat "bad meat". Maybe bad meat means eating laman loob (intestines, blood, heart, liver and the likes).
Being a Filipino means meating laman loob once in a while. 

The other day I was craving for isaw (chicken intestine), then I saw this orange piece of meat in a stick beside the isaw vendor. I've been seeing these street food since I was in high school and never bothered tasting them. SO the other day, I just pluck up the courage and bought myself these for sure cholesterol infested meat in a stick. It's rubbery and oily and it only costs 3php for the litid (the orange meat) and 2php for the bopis (dark brown meat). The vendor told me it's a beef meat, litid according to my mom are ligaments and the bopis is beef lungs. 

HA! Filipinos can't seem to throw leftovers away and we find ways to make a living out of it and miraculously we LOVE eating it. 

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