Shabu-shabu is a healthy Japanese food with soup, vegetables, and seafood or meat. It’s a complete food, less the oil. The experience is nice as you will have to cook it yourself. Therefore, if you don’t know how to cook, going to a shabu-shabu restaurant would be a nice start.
In making the shabu-shabu meal, I [...]
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November 14th, 2011 
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Got the best Leche Flan in town!
August 18th, 2011 Julie Labitag Who has sweet tooth? Who knows what leche flan is? It is a dessert made of mostly egg yolk and milk. It’s rich, creamy and sweet. I was so fortunate to discover where I can get the best leche flan in town. I found it at Shopwise. I went there to [...]
Santol
July 28th, 2011 Julie Labitag Santol is one of Philippine fruits which is is abundant during the months of July to August. Its seeds are covered with juicy mucilage. Depending on its variety, some have delicious mucilage and some have sour mucilage. Its seeds should never be swallowed as it could cause intestinal obstruction and one needs to be operated [...]
Chicken-all-you-can, anyone?
June 26th, 2011 Julie Labitag Max’s Fried Chicken, the oldest Filipino-owned restaurant chain in the country serving the best friend chicken in town. It’s true to its tagline, “sarap to the bones”, which means even the bones of the chicken is yummy.
Max’s has an ongoing promotion of “Chicken-all-you can”, for Php200 (USD4.60) you can eat all chicken that your [...]
Tags: Durian
April 24th, 2011 Julie Labitag Davao City is the home of Durian fruit in the Philippines. If you’ve been to Davao and you haven’t tasted fresh Durian, then you haven’t been there at all. In Davao, Durian is incorporated to majority of foods. There is the heavenly yummy durian ice cream, durian coffee, durian frapuccino, durian halu-halo, durian [...]
NOT to donut!
February 25th, 2011 Julie Labitag After the super sweet donut that I bought yesterday, I think I will not eat donut for a long time. Here’s what I experienced, after I ate the donut, I felt as if was dehydrated, my esophagus was so dry and I felt as if I’m going to be sick. The food did not [...]
Restaurant delivery
January 14th, 2011 Julie Labitag Last week, I decided I wouldn’t use one of my credit cards anymore because the customer representative who I spoke with told me that it automatically charges penalty fee for late payment even for 1 day past the due date, which my other credit cards don’t do. But then, one can request one-time waive for it after [...]
Discovering my cooking talent
December 13th, 2010 Julie Labitag Lately, I’ve been practicing to cook again, and I discovered that in cooking, imagination is the only limit. Last week, I cooked spicy adobo with radish, chicken curry, and chicken with broccoli in oyster sauce. I thought the dishes that I prepared were cooked perfectly, even my officemates who tasted them would agree . [...]
Filipino style Thanksgiving celebration
December 13th, 2010 Julie Labitag This post may be a little late but let me still share it.
In the US, Americans always celebrate thanksgiving and normally it goes with turkey, baked potatoes, bread and other American food. If Philippines were to celebrate Thanksgiving Day and it would serve Filipino Food, it would have lechon (roast whole pork) – the Filipinos’ [...]
Experiencing authentic Indian Food
November 21st, 2010 Julie Labitag My friend, Cris, and I went to an indian restaurant in Makati, Legend of India, to get a taste of authentic indian cuisine. We had fun, the place is nice, the staff are friendly and accomodating and the food was great. We were served with an Indian snack, which is made of assorted nuts, [...]
