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While I believe that your significant other should be sweet and romantic all-year-round, it is kinda nice to receive something extra on Valentine’s Day – especially with all the special edition Valentine’s Day stuff stores are coming up with! I don’t know about you, but I’d take chocolate and cake over flowers any day, especially if they’re as delightful as these new delicacies from Red Ribbon.
It would be a real travesty to deny your love a cake as decadent as the new Red Ribbon Chocolate Heaven. The top layer is made of rich chocolate truffle, which rests on a second layer of super moist chocolate cake. Shaved chocolate curls are scattered across the top.
Posted by Lauren | Under Restaurant with 275 views
Monday Feb 1, 2010
Sometimes I wish that eating were optional. It’s not that I want to get skinny (although that’s always a good thing); it’s because I find it so inconvenient to eat when I’m busy. Some people overeat when they’re stressed, but I’m the kind of person who loses her appetite when she’s too consumed by her work. When I eventually remember that it’s been hours since my last meal, I’m either too busy to stop working and eat, or it’s 2 in the morning and I’m battling insomnia.
Saturday was one of those days – I went out with an empty stomach and spent an entire afternoon doing all the things I planned to do. By dinner, my stomach reminded me that it’s been over 24 hours since it last had anything to digest. My boyfriend and I didn’t have trouble finding a place to have dinner because we had just run into one of his college friends, who recommended that we check out this ramen place at Pasay road. It’s called Ukokkei Ramen and they have the largest bowls of ramen he has ever had the pleasure of eating from.
After our filling Thai dinner at Oody’s, my boyfriend and I wandered off to find dessert. We’re both huge dessert fiends who like our post-dinner sweets gooey, rich, and chocolatey. Although it’s normally not difficult for us to find a cozy coffee shop to settle down and stuff ourselves silly, we did have a fairly heavy dinner and could only eat a light-ish dessert. It took a little bit of walking around Greenbelt for inspiration to strike – the last time we were here, we passed by the relocated Max Brenner on our way to a movie. I remember telling Marco how relieved I was to know that Max Brenner hadn’t closed down as I feared (in its old location is a Hermes store), and that we must have dessert there at our next date. Guess where we ended up going?
Posted by Lauren | Under contest with 291 views
Thursday Jan 28, 2010
Tomorrow is the last day to submit your entries to our Minute maid contest! All you gotta do is answer the question, How can you best enjoy Minute Maid Pulpy Orange?
There are two ways to join!
1) Write a blog entry describing how to best enjoy Minute Maid, along with photos to illustrate your suggestion. Place a link to this contest page (not this entry) and comment with the link to your blog post. The best blog entry wins an iPod touch (32GB)!
2) If you don’t have a blog, comment below with your suggestion on how to enjoy Minute Maid. The best comment wins an iPod nano (8GB)!
Comments posted after January 28 will be disqualified.
Posted by Lauren | Under Restaurant with 353 views
Monday Jan 25, 2010
When I was in high school and Market! Market! was still a new mall, I used to drag my parents to Oody’s for Thai food. Their affordable prices (around P150-200 per person), fast service, and excellent food made Oody’s one of my favorite restaurants of all time, and I was brokenhearted to learn that the one at Market! Market! closed down for some reason. It’s been years since I last ate at Oody’s and while I always passed by the one at Greenbelt 3, I never had the chance to go in and revisit it. Last Saturday, however, my boyfriend and I finally got around to dining at Oody’s, thanks to a movie screening time that gave us a couple of hours to kill at Greenbelt.
The Oody’s I used to know was very simple, low-key, almost fast food-like in its appearance. Although well decorated, you can tell by the quality of the seats and their proximity to each other that the place was meant for cheap and quick eating. The new Oody’s, on the other hand, has more upscale interiors and spacious tables that invite diners to stay and linger even after their meals have been consumed. I like how the new Oody’s looks, and I wonder if the taste and price of the food matched the restaurant’s classy, laid-back atmosphere.
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