The Last of Summer in Chinatown

To add to the last memoirs of summer 2012, I ventured through the busy streets of Binondo-slash-Chinatown again but this time, with one of my good friends, Nixie. We purposely went there to have a taste of the food --- fried siopao, xiao long bao and some more! Although for now, I present to you a photoset of the street photos I took and with the editing, I guess I was inspired by Merphi's (1 || 2) recent trip to Taiwan. (She's one of the best photographers ever!) 

Chinatown, Manila and Taiwan... not too far, eh?

We are family!

For the first time, I was the one who initiated a family get-together as the summer-ender for us students in the family since we're starting another school year this week! I'm excited to go back to school! Though I haven't had any back-to-school shopping yet. :( 

It wasn't anything special but an intimate dinner. I think we filled the place with our voices, though. Haha! We decided to shift away from Asian cuisines for a while since we've been eating Chinese food mostly during the weekends. Anyway, we had our family summer-ender dinner at Shakey's in Cainta. There's already one there? Yep! They opened a new branch in the area and might as well say that fast food chains are starting to boom over the place.

Mojos and chicken! These really made my night! :)

...with garlic bread

This dish remains to be mysterious...

As usual, yung "nahiyang" slice. Lol

Desserts are served!

Vanilla sundae with that strawberry thing.

Plain raisin oatmeal cookie for me! 

Boys in Chinatown... almost!

Photos above from Raniel Hernandez.

A week ago, an itinerary to Chinatown was set. It was only me and Raniel who originally planned about it then he invited some blockmates. Only two of them were "G!" about it hence, a photowalk-ish adventure commenced.

Summer-ender giveaway from Hershey!

What's up, everyone! While I'm busy looking for a decent copy of Photoshop CS3, I blog hopped for a while and found this awesome giveaway. Though I also have seen this on my Twitter timeline. The giveaway sounded really interesting and all... besides, a planner, a satchel bag, an oversized hoodie, a mani-pedi treatment and sweet, cute cupcakes are at stake! Now who doesn't want that? Join here now :D

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Snack Size

Everything in this post feels and looks like snack size. In short, merienda. Internship has never been this fun with happy internmates and good food! :) Days ago I posted our very first lunch out at Banapple Ayala Triangle. This time, presenting one of our ordinary days at the pantry.

Of all the prominent milk tea places in metro, Moonleaf Tea Shop is be one of them. Their branches just keep on multiplying by the week. Just weeks ago, we were so thrilled of the news that Moonleaf was having a new branch in The Columns, Makati and to add more to the hype, it's near to our *coughs* office. However, we got disappointed that it only opened for a day! Eventually, we had the time to go out, finally, to buy a drink from there. It was actually my first time to ~*formally*~ enter a Moonleaf store since I tried it out before from a food bazaar. Anyway, we grabbed something from there and went straight to the pantry as some of us still had agendas to finish.

We also got to eat doughnuts from Cello's Doughnuts and Dips from their Taft branch c/o Tina. :) As usual, their products were the best! They have another branch over at Katipunan (and many others! Check out their site here.) so I suggest to go grab something from Cello's.

Hakka Milk Tea, Jasmine Milk Tea and Peppermint Milk Tea.

Busy? 

Think again! ;) 

Yabu Dinner Photodump

So here's a set of photos from my family's dinner night yesterday. As I was editing a certain photo, I couldn't help but feel emotional. My family is just my biggest weakness... but before this gets any deeper, we enjoyed a very nice dinner at Yabu after their office hours and me enrolling for my last first semester of college (hopefully!). I currently have 22 units which is like the number of units same as my first semester's when I was still a freshman. The twist though is that this time around, my SE group has to finish our thesis and there's my internship planned to finish until July. I guess the word "chill" must stay in the dictionary first!

I decided to experiment with the photos so pardon the color consistency! :)

What they call the ritual.

What I ordered: the fish (cream dory) set! 

Parentals

A piece of oyster from my father's Chicken and Seafood mix set.

Silken tofu from my mother's vegetarian set.

That's me! 

I still have yet to try their salmon set for lunch!

Banapple Ayala Triangle (and their new dish!)

As our internship draws nearer to the end, there were people who had to say goodbye at an earlier time because of certain reasons. To have it more memorable our batch decided to have a lunch out at Banapple Ayala Triangle.

The place was rather small however, I think it was made up with the scrumptious meals served by the restaurant. Also, the food were delivered  to our seats after 30 minutes or so and we were so hungry by then since we had to leave office by 11 for us to be seated. There was also this waitress who annoyed the hell of one of my co-interns. Personally, prices were reasonable when compared to the food serving and taste.

I had Banapple's House Salad and Crunchy Chicken Fillet and Bell Pepper Sandwich both split into two for me and Keena, a co-intern, for a healthier combination but when the dessert came in... all these down to the drain.

Crunchy Chicken Fillet and Bell Pepper Sandwich

Hickory Smoked Barbecued Country Ribs

Lasagna Roll-ups

Herbed Chicken Rolls with Basil Cream Sauce

Breaded Fillet of Cream Dory with Honey Thyme Mustard Sauce

One of their bestsellers, the banoffee pie!

Dark Chocolate Tiramisu Cake 

Strawberry Amaretto Cheesecake 

 
Blueberry Cheesecake

 
I can't remember its name... so call me maybe? Hahaha. Charot.


As for their new dish... out-of-this-world serving idea! Chicken a la Tupperware. 
I'm kidding. Haha.

Anyhoo, here are just SOME of the internship photos during that day! 

Best summer ever! :) ...minus the company work. Haha.
More photos soon.