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After 4 hours of studying Japanese, I often craved for Xiao Long bao so upon returning home, from Trinoma, I'll have to cross the mall bridge and pass through a lot of people on my way to satisfy my cravings at SM North the Block.
At last! I have reached this restaurant. Yey! Even though I am a frequent customer here.
The restaurant's name is somewhat disgusting for some but it is really clean. I wonder why they chose Lugang Cafe instead of Lukang Cafe. Lukang鹿港is one of the places in northwestern Taiwan.
Thursday, August 8, 2013
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This is a comparison between Shi Lin and PEACE & HAPPINESS Dumpling House
For part 2, Lugang Cafe review will be coming soon. :) :) :) :)
I first came addicted to Xiao Long Bao when I, together with my friends dined in Shi Lin (士林)located at Bonifacio Global City. There is also a branch in The Podium located at Ortigas.
My friends introduced me to this delicacy while listening to Teresa Teng's songs being played in the restaurant.
Since I saw spot.ph's article about the Top 10 Xiao Long bao in Manila after many months from my first Xiao Long bao, I decided to write this post so you can see the delicacy based on a commoner's experience.
I don't know if Shi Lin refers to one of the districts in Taipei, Taiwan or if it means a Stone forest. Since I am currently taking Japanese classes, there are 3 japanese writing systems, those are hiragana, katakana and kanji. Kanji came from chinese characters and whether it is used by the Chinese or Japanese, the meaning are the same even when they were saying it differently to the point that you can write these characters and show it to them even if you don't know the literal translation of these words.
Let's go back to Shi Lin, 士meansearth, ground or soilwhile 林meanswoods.
Here's my Shi Lin experience for the nth time: (I can't remember the number of times since I'm a frequent customer)
The waiters are courteous and they respond quickly. The place is clean. They are still playing Teresa Teng's songs which I really like. My order came at the nick of time.
There's a second floor but too shy to capture it
Left side where the cooks are making dumplings
Sorry ^^, forgot to include vinegar on this photo. The vinegar looks like a soy sauce because of its color
Here's the actual amount of soup and it's really tasty
The ground pork with some onions and green veggies
Sunday, November 4, 2012
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7:08 PM
Hi again everybody! I didn't update my blog for so long because of my vacation in Hong Kong, Macau, Shenzhen (China) and Kota Kinabalu (Malaysia). Also, I procrastinated in doing posts about my vacation. You can also inquire/comment for these countries' tourist information such as transpo, places to visit, etc.
Since you are curious about the deals in TCAT and Metrodeal, now, here is our experience in Celina's Cafe and Restaurant in Tagaytay using our metrodeal vouchers.
We expected that the place will be like an eatery style. When we reached there, Celina's is really a restaurant and a decent place despite it's cheap buffet.
It's dinner time and the wind's really cold like a Baguio breeze.
I know that my iPod's camera sucked and I used this anyway to capture the supposedly beautiful orange moon
Now back to the resto, the con for the metrodeal voucher promo is.......
The actual price of the buffet is also P299 not P600. I knew it already when I searched blogs about this but since food is delicious and cheap according to them, we decided to buy this deal.
An additional con for this is, the signage on the highway near Gerry's Grill isn't big, isn't bright and hardly read/seen.
The pros...
I enjoyed their food because it's really delicious and worth for its price. The staff are approachable and courteous. Their specialties are bulalo and the salads.
Looks mediocre, right! But when you taste these, it's really yummy :)
The other one's Kare Kare
Sisig and burger mushroom with gravy
Papaitan and the delicious/almost meat not bones bulalo
The resto has also a water dispenser. Despite the inclusion of cafe on it's name, coffee isn't included in the buffet and you have to order it on an expensive price of P75 and I will rather buy a cup of coffee at Starbucks.
Celina's is located near (not inside) Summit Ridge and within restaurants of Gerry's Grill.
I passed by Seattle's Coffee in Trinoma last week. I never planned to eat in this coffee shop but I can't resist to try their coffee so I ended ordering pesto with bread and an iced latte
People Wake up! even if you are not in America, we have to prevent this to have in our country.
This awesome realistic and important documentary tells us about sources of US foods and ways corporate/factory farms bred their animals, fruits and vegetables. This will also tells us the effect of those foods to the workers and consumers
The film took three years to make.Director Kenner claims that he spent large amounts of his budget on legal fees to try to protect himself against lawsuits from industrial food producers, pesticide and fertilizer manufacturers, and other companies criticized in the film.
