Putting this out there for anyone who wants to read it. :) Hope you like it.
A bowl of uni udon from #Ooma - udon noodles, uni, uni cream, mushrooms, nori and scallions. Carbonara lovers are gonna dig this!
One of my favorites from last night at #Ooma - a corn and oyster fritter, which you dip in kimchi mayo and nori salt. Fun stuff - I kept on reaching for these!
Welcoming the Age of #Ooma with these nutty peeps.😜 Congratulations, #MomentGroup and #BruceRicketts - looks like you're certainly going to shake things up around these parts! Oishi!
Into the clouds!
Taipei 101
Dinner on this icky rainy night is like a hug. Yummehhhhh minced pork on rice.❤
Classic Taiwanese brekkie - cold soy milk and you tiao (crullers) 😁 Gooooood morning!!!
Jurrasic Melons
By far my favorite meal yet - boiled goose and noodles. Clean and tasty! Sooooo good!
Chaser: an amazing misua with innards and a soup base flavored with bonito! Awesome with ginger and chili!
And for an equalizer - brown sugar shaved ice to cool you down!
Interesting! Shaved brittle on a fresh lumpia-like wrapper, with taro ice cream and cilantro. It tastes like Chinese amoy veggie lumpia except the taro is cold. Haha! Pretty interesting
Chicken.🐔 (its HUGE! And luckily right around the corner..I indulge the tourist side..😜) #
Training it like a bullit!🚄 #YoureMyTaipei
This lady's life would make one helluva movie..😁She's easily one of the most interesting folk I've met in recent memory --- meet Yana Gilbuena, of #SaloSeries, and the gypsiest of traveling gypsies! 🙌 Would be fun to collab on something with this one... maybe one day, if our paths cross somewhere in the 🌏. Hehe!
SHETKAAYLABYU!!!😜❤🙌 Congratulations, #SarsaGroup! #KafeBatwan is another winner! It's a great space and the food is innovative yet still somewhat familiar! The local cafe scene just got a boost, global Filipino style!😁
New. Rockwell. Born of the almighty #Sarsa - so you know what you're in for. When fully open, drop it all and CHECK IT!!!
What to expect - twists and turns - and an attempt to create a global Filipino cafe! Here's some new style palabok - with a firmer noodle, sautéed baby squid, chicharon, a slow cooked egg and crablets. One of many cool new dishes!
Do yourself a favor - order this, their ignored masterpiece: sautéed shrimp in "mixed bean sauce" (basically mongo and mashed red beans with a hint of chocolate) and sambal beans. This is pretty damn amazing, and a show of depth in JP Anglo's cooking arsenal.
Spinach salad with grilled tomatoes, crablets and mango salted egg dressing. Oh yesssss!!!
Sizzling budbod (a from of kakanin) with ube butter and coconut pandan coffee cream. Something light to round things off. 😜
A #latergram from the newly relocated #KeizoGastroPub in BGC: a simple, satisfying maguro avocado salad, with a nice spice kick. I guess this is my go-to since my beloved #Hanaichi suddenly closed down.
The #KeizoGastroPub sashimi platter ain't bad either.
My Visayas lunch is all about good food, good vibes, team work, faith and a whole lot of love. As in gusto kong halikan ang lahat. ❤ Pucker up, bitchezzzzzz.. 👄
Chef Tony wants it!
One of our stars today at our Visayas lunch: roasted organic baby lamb from Chef Vicente "Enting" Lobaton, who flew all the way from Bacolod to show us some of his magic. Sorry lechon baka... you've been replaced. NAMIT GID!!!
Take a bow, Visayas (though we're missing our spiritual leader, Margarita Fores and Chef Ariel Manuel)! ❤Two down, one to go - Mindanao!
The fruits of my labor.. 👶 This is the Visayas regional lunch at #MadridFusionManila care of the Department of Agriculture! 😁🙌🙌🙌❤ IT IS DONE! Thank you to everyone who prayed for us, who served, cooked, cleaned and just plain supported. This is for all of you, Pilipinas!!!! 😜
This photo says so much about what we went through. It did, indeed, take a village to put this together. We had no choice but to rely on each other, even if most of us had just met. But work it out we did, because we all believed in our cause. To paraphrase the leader of the "A Team": "I love it when a plan comes together!" 😜Maraming salamat, Team Enderun Colleges for having my back! I will always be forever grateful!
Showing off some fun stuff and good eats today at Mega Fashion Hall. Plenty to jones for here!
Starting up at #TuanTuan
Miss Katrina Hernandez telling us the tale of #TuanTuan
Listening in at #Satchmi
At the cool enclave of #Indochine
#CrateAndBarrel is here
Snapping pics at #DolceLattePH!
The son of the tea master talks about #Sweeteas
How many sons-in-law did it take #NAVModernThai to make these?
Best eaten hot at #Waffos - a #LegaspiMarkethomegrown food biz, now at #MegaFoodHall!
We could almost fly with all these wings from #FrankiesNewYorkBuffaloWings!
She: "this is our ice cream.. Made with Hokkaido milk.. and it's called #DojoDairy." He: "I like it."
Well ya gotta breathe SOMETIME, right? THANK YOU #MegaFoodHall for a spectacular ending to our #JustJonesingMegaFashionHall crawl.
Chicken Tikka
Moshi moshi everyone! I'm back from some short trips (Singapore and my very first Just Jonesing Tokyo Tour! More on these on the blog later..) and so far it's been pretty action packed.
So there's this Pakistani joint (pardon the stupid joke up there) located in a space I knew and loved as a Syrian restaurant if I'm not mistaken. It was called Manaish and it was delicious.
I ate there several times and even back then the crickets could be heard chirping - it was so empty.
On the day of my visit, the new incarnation was pretty quiet too - the inventively named Kabob And Curry - and that's promarily why I want to write and share this post. It's some of the most delicious stuff I've eaten in awhile!
Me and my host Rafa started with some of this really good organic okra in a spicy tomato based sauce called Bhindi Masala which we ate with hot naan bread (a must as well!). The okra was cooked perfectly - the okra police can breathe easy as there was no slime - and was sufficiently spicy and seasoned just right.
Daal Chana, or lentils in ginger and garlic and cumin was a revelation -- the lentils didn't break down into mush. You could see every bit of it and it had a little bite then dissolved into creamy deliciousness. To me it was amazing!
To satisfy our manly meat eating cravings, Rafa ordered some juicy grilled Chicken Tikka and a whole rack of marinated and grilled mutton ribs, good for 4, because we were 2. Does that make sense? Well, it rocked, and he did have some to take back to his cave and feed his wife.
And to complete our meal, we had rice. Because of course we should - we're Pinoy, dammit.
Mutton Pulao, a mild biryani type dish, was moist and so flavorful, I'd come back just for this. A lot of these rice dishes I've tried locally are tasty but they often dry out. This one gets it right.
The crickets are chirping...eat here now!
The food is well priced and in big portions, and it's cooked by a Pakistani chef. It's goooood, and there are so many other things I would like to try. But as I said, there was no one there that lunch time. On Sundays they have a 500 something peso buffet -- and it's normally filled with home sick Pakistani nationals. I'd go for ala carte during weekdays and try all this glorious stuff, and give some din to this restaurant to keep the chirping crickets at bay!
KABAB & CURRY - 20 Jupiter St